A Divisional Commissioner, also known as Commissioner of division, is an Indian Administrative Service officer who serves as the administrator of a division of a state in India. The post is referred to as regional commissioner in Karnataka and as revenue divisional commissioner in Odisha.
A bilingual signboard of Divisional commissioner office in the National Capital Territory of Delhi
Indian Administrative Service
The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the administrative arm of the All India Services of Government of India. The IAS is one of the three All India Services along with the Indian Police Service and Indian Forest Service. Members of these three services serve the Government of India as well as the individual states. IAS officers are also deployed to various government establishments such as constitutional bodies, staff and line agencies, auxiliary bodies, public sector undertakings, regulatory bodies, statutory bodies and autonomous bodies.
Motto: "Excellence in action"
The Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand is the staff training college of the IAS
Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, interacting with IAS officers (on probation)
President Murmu with a group of IAS officers (2020 batch) at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi.
