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Administrative divisions of Uttar Pradesh

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Administrative divisions of Uttar Pradesh
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The northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which borders Nepal, comprises 18 administrative divisions. Within these 18 divisions, there are a total of 75 districts.[1] The following table shows the name of each division, its administrative capital city, its constituent districts, and a map of its location.

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Administrative Divisions of Uttar Pradesh.
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Current divisions

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Currently 75 districts are divided into 18 divisions.

Divisions Formed Headquarters Districts Map
Agra division Pre-Independence Agra
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Aligarh division 17 April 2008 (Separated From Agra division) Aligarh
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Ayodhya division Pre-Independence Ayodhya
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Azamgarh division 15 November 1994 (Separated from Gorakhpur and Varanasi divisions) Azamgarh
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Bareilly division Pre-Independence Bareilly
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Basti division 14 June 1997 (Separated from Gorakhpur division) Basti
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Chitrakootdham division 21 November 1997 (Separated from Jhansi division) Banda
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Devipatan division 21 November 1997 (Separated from Ayodhya division) Gonda
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Gorakhpur division Pre-Independence Gorakhpur
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Jhansi division Pre-Independence Jhansi
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Kanpur division 15 August 1988 (Separated from Allahabad division) Kanpur
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Lucknow division Pre-Independence Lucknow
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Meerut division Pre-Independence Meerut
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Moradabad division 14 September 1980 (Separated from Bareilly Division) Moradabad
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Prayagraj division Pre-Independence Prayagraj
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Saharanpur division 21 November 1997 (Separated from Meerut Division) Saharanpur
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Varanasi division Pre-Independence Varanasi
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Vindhyachal division 14 June 1997 (Separated from Varanasi division) Mirzapur
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Original Divisions with their original districts during Independence

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During the formation of State of Uttar Pradesh, it consisted of 49 districts divided into 10 divisions.

Divisions Headquarters Districts
2nd or Agra division Agra
10th or Ayodhya division (Faizabad division) Faizabad
3rd or Bareilly division (Rohilkhand division) Bareilly
7th or Gorakhpur division Gorakhpur
5th or Jhansi division Jhansi
9th or Lucknow division Lucknow
8th or Kumaon division Nainital
1st or Meerut division Meerut
4th or Prayagraj division (Allahabad division) Allahabad
6th or Varanasi division (Benaras division) Benaras

There were three native principalities (Rampur State, Benaras State and Tehri Garhwal State) which existed outside the regular revenue administration which were later incorporated into it. Rampur State was made a district and was transferred to Rohilkhand division and later to newly formed Moradabad division. Benaras State was integrated with Varanasi district and Varanasi division. Tehri Garhwal State was carved into several hilly districts and a new Garhwal division was created in 1969 with Pauri district as its headquarters along with transferring of Dehradun district from Meerut division to Garhwal division. Pratapgarh district was transferred from Ayodhya division to Prayagraj division in 1988. Ballia district was transferred from Varanasi division when Azamgarh division was formed after separation from Gorakhpur division in 1994. When Uttarakhand got separated from Uttar Pradesh in 2000, Kumaon division and Garhwal division were incorporated into it along with newly formed Haridwar district which was transferred from Saharanpur division to Garhwal division.

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Divisional Officers

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Almost every department in Uttar Pradesh Government has its divisional level officers who supervise, review and guide its district level officers. There are many important divisional level committees and meetings chaired by concerned Divisional Commissioner which take inter-departmental decisions such as divisional crime and law & order review meeting, divisional security committee, divisional level monitoring committee for development work, regional transport authority etc. Every divisional headquarter district has a state guest-house known as Circuit House.

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Demand for integrated Divisional Office Complexes

After the state government approved integrated divisional office complexes for Gorakhpur and Varanasi division which will have offices of all divisional officers under one roof.[2] The opposition alleged favouritism for these two divisions as they are located in Chief Minister’s and Prime Minister’s constituencies.

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