Many youth in the country dream of joining administrative services. In such a situation, there is often discussion about posts like SDM and Tehsildar. Both the posts are related to the district administration and revenue department, but their work, responsibilities and rights are different. Many people also want to know who is more powerful between SDM and Tehsildar. Let us understand the difference between these two posts.

SDM
SDM i.e. Sub-Divisional Magistrate is the chief administrative officer of a sub-division of a district. He handles the administrative work in that area and works on the instructions of the District Officer. Generally, officers who pass the UPSC Civil Services Examination become SDM after training. Apart from this, officers selected from the State Public Service Commission can also be appointed to the post of SDM.

Tehsildar
Tehsildar is also an important officer of the administrative system, but his work is mainly limited to the tehsil level. The main job of the Tehsildar is to handle revenue related matters.
Often Naib Tehsildar is promoted to Tehsildar. Apart from this, one can also be appointed to this post after passing the State Public Service Commission examination.

Who is more powerful?
If we talk about rights and responsibilities, the post of SDM is considered bigger and more powerful than Tehsildar. SDM has administrative, revenue and magistrate powers, while Tehsildar mainly handles revenue related work. For this reason, SDM is considered a senior officer than Tehsildar in the administrative system.

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What are the responsibilities?
Both SDM and Tehsildar play an important role in the district administration and revenue system. The SDM is responsible for the administration of his area i.e. sub-division, where he monitors land related matters, oversees land revenue collection and maintains coordination in the functioning of various government departments. Along with this, SDM also coordinates with the police administration in maintaining law and order and keeps an eye on the proper implementation of government schemes.

Whereas Tehsildar handles the revenue related work at the Tehsil level. His main work is to safeguard land records and crop data, collect land revenue and government dues and give reports to the government to provide relief to the people when needed. Tehsildar also plays an important role in providing help to the affected people during natural disasters. In this way both the officers work together to run the administration and revenue system smoothly.

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To make the land related records modern and accurate in Bihar, the state government is continuously doing special land survey work. In this series, Deputy Chief Minister cum Revenue and Land Reforms Minister Vijay Kumar Sinha held a high-level review meeting in his Patna office on Monday.

In the meeting, Vijay Kumar Sinha took detailed information about the progress of the survey work going on in all the districts and gave clear instructions that this entire work should be completed within the stipulated time limit.

Bihar is conducting special land survey in two phases

Vijay Sinha told that special land survey is going on in two phases in Bihar. The first phase started from September 2020, under which survey work is going on in 5,657 Mauzas in 89 circles of 20 districts. He said that in this phase, survey of 961 villages has been completed so far and the final rights records of these villages have also been published. In the remaining villages, work is in the final stages and is progressing rapidly. After this, the second phase was started from August 2024, in which a special survey is being conducted in 37,384 villages in 448 zones of 18 districts.

List of 10 Panchayats should be prepared in every district – Deputy Chief Minister

Comparing both the phases, the Deputy Chief Minister said that many districts have performed well, but there is a need to increase the pace in some places. In the meeting, he also instructed the officials to prepare a list of those 10 panchayats in every district where progress is the slowest. Keeping special monitoring on these Panchayats, additional resources and personnel should be deployed there, so that the work can be expedited. He said that accurate and transparent survey of land related records is the top priority of the government, because this will reduce land disputes in future and people will easily get accurate records.

Any kind of negligence will not be tolerated in the survey

Vijay Sinha warned the officials that any kind of negligence in the survey will not be tolerated. He said that this project is directly related to the public interest and it is his personal responsibility to get it completed properly and on time. In the meeting, Principal Secretary of Revenue Department CK Anil, Director of Land Records and Measurement Directorate J. Priyadarshini and other senior officers of the department were present. All the officers presented the progress reports of their respective districts and discussed the further action plan.

The government hopes that within the stipulated time frame the entire state will be connected to modern land records, which will provide great convenience to the citizens and the administrative work will also become more transparent and simple.

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In the meeting of the GST Council chaired by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, there have been very big changes in the tax slab. Now only two slabs are left in GST, while the slabs of 12 percent and 28 percent have been completely abolished. During the press conference of the Finance Minister, it has been told that if you bought a slippers of one thousand rupees, then how much GST used to give earlier and how much GST will be installed after the new slab is implemented.

What percentage will be GST on footwear now?

After the GST Council meeting, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman held a press briefing on Wednesday (September 3, 2025) with Arvind Srivastava, Secretary, Revenue Department, Ministry of Finance. During this, Arvind Srivastava, Secretary, Revenue Department, gave information about the tax on footwear. He said, “So far, on buying footwear up to Rs 1000, customers were taxed at 12 percent and 18 percent GST was charged for purchasing footwear worth more than 1000 rupees.”

He said, ‘Because now a tax slab of 12 percent has been removed. So according to the new tax slab, 5 percent GST will be imposed on footwear up to Rs 2500 from now and 18 percent GST will be imposed on footwear worth more than Rs 2500.

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– ANI (@ani) September 3, 2025

How much GST will have to be paid to even bigger cars,

Arvind Srivastava, Secretary, Revenue Department of the Ministry of Finance, shared information about the GST on the smallest cars. He said, ’18 percent GST will be imposed on small cars. Apart from this, 40 percent GST will be charged on all other cars.

However, he also said that the scale of small cars which have been decided by the Union Ministry of Roads, Transport and Highways, the small cars will be charged 18 percent GST. According to the Ministry of Transport, 1200 cc and diesel 1500 cc cars are counted in small cars on petrol. We have not decided any new scale for him.

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