The Deputy Commissioner heads the District as the Controlling
Officer.
The Deputy
Commissioner who also acts as the district
Development
Commissioner
for the development purposes controls the district administration. The
Deputy
commissioner also acts as District Magistrate with regard to the law
& order
related matters. The administrative setup is as follows:

The district is administratively divided into four Tehsils I.e. Pulwama, Pampore, Awantipora and Tral headed by the Tehsildars respectively as shown in the table below:
|
SNO
|
Administrator
|
Tehsil
|
Nayabats
|
|
1. |
|
Pulwama |
1.
Pulwama
2.
Tahab 3.
Rajpra 4.
Newa 5.
Kakapora 6.
Patipora 7.Awantipora |
|
2. |
Tehsildar |
Pampore |
1.
Khrewa 2.
Pampore |
|
|
|
Tral |
1.
Noorpora
2.
Tral
3.
Lurgam |
|
4. |
Tehsildar |
Awantipora |
1. Awantipora -I 2. Awantipora -II |
|
Total |
14 |
Pulwama
District Comes under
31 - Anantnag
, PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCY
Pulwama
district has 236 Panchayats and 554 Villages out of which 18 villages
are
uninhabited. The building of District Secretariat was dedicated to the
people of
district Pulwama on
13th
of July 1979 by the then Hon’ble Speaker of J&K Legislative
Assembly . It is situated at a very prime location on Jammu-
Srinagar
National Highway just at
14
km and 16 km milestones from Awantipora on Highway
and Galander
on
Highway
respectively. It is
two storied building
accommodating
all the major offices of district like DC office, Chief Planning
Officer’s
Office, Distt Stat. & Evaluation Office, Addl. Deputy Commissioner/
Asstt.
Commissioner (Revenue),
NIC,
Election
Office, Information
Office, Asstt
Commissioner (Development) Office, Relief
Office, District
Panchayat
Bawan, ARTO Office etc.. This
building is situated at a very prime location on Pulwama - Shopian road
and is
called D C Office/
Administrative
Complex , Pulwama.

Administrative Complex Pulwama
The
district further
has been
grouped into four community block viz Pulwama, Kakapora, Tral
and Pampore for development purposes. There are 131 patwar halqas and
236
delimited panchayats. Tehsil wise number of halqas and villages is
reported as
under:-
|
|
|
|
|
1. Pulwama
2. Pampore
3. Tral 4. Awantipora |
1 Pulwama 2. Kakapora
3. Tral
4. Pampore |
|
The
district is spread over an area of 1398 sq.kms, the blockwise area of the district is given as
under:-
S.NO
|
Name of the Block |
Total
area in 000 Hec. |
Total
no. of Pyts. |
Total
No. of Delimited Pyt. Halqas |
|
1 |
Kakapora |
8.57 |
14 |
24 |
|
2 |
Pampore |
14.48 |
12 |
19 |
|
3 |
Pulwama |
16.98 |
23 |
42 |
| 4 | Tral |
Patwar Halqa’s is given below:
S.NO
|
Tehsil |
NO.of
villages |
Total |
No.of
Patwar Halqa |
|
|
Inhabited |
Un-inhabited |
||||
|
1 |
Pulwama
|
206 |
09 |
215 |
50 |
|
2 |
Tral |
079 |
01 |
80 |
26 |
|
4 |
Pampore |
026 |
04 |
30 |
12 |