The main activities of District administration are Law & order control, revenue administration, monitoring of development works & control over other Govt. departements.The District magistrate is the overall head of the district. For the administrative work District Magistrate is supported by team of officers, such as for law & order by Supdt. of Police(SP),for development works by Chief Development Officer(CDO) for revenue administration Addl. District Magistrates ,SDMs , for forest related work by DFO etc.
The other activities of District Magistrate office includes issuing & cancellation of arm licenses, keeping records of Nazul land , Stamps , registry work , redressal of court cases related to lands . Being the head of district a common man puts ones grievances before collector which are generally related to different departments , one section of District Collector office looks after these public complaints and traces there answers from the concerned departments/officers.
List of District Magistrates from 24-02-1960
| In Uttar Pradesh | In Uttarakhand | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.No | Officer Name | From | To | S.No | Officer Name | From | To | |
| 1 | Shri Mahesh Chandra Mishr | 24.02.1960 | 07.03.1960 | 1 | Shri Rajeev Agrwal | 09.11.2000 | 06.01.2001 | |
| 2 | Shri Sharswati Prashad Watal | 08.03.1960 | 01.04.1964 | 2 | Shri Madan Singh | 06.01.2001 | 15.06.2004 | |
| 3 | Shri Niwashan Ramesh | 23.04.1964 | 31.03.1966 | 3 | Shri Ajay Singh Nabiyal | 18.06.2004 | 21.05.2007 | |
| 4 | Shri Anoop Singh | 18.05.1966 | 23.06.1969 | 4 | Shri D. S. Gabryal | 31.05.2007 | 03.11.2008 | |
| 5 | Shri Jagdish Khattar | 21.08.1969 | 11.04.1971 | 5 | Shri Arun Kumar Dhaundhiyal | 03.11.2008 | 07.12.2009 | |
| 6 | Shri Durga Prashad Arya | 06.07.1971 | 22.12.1973 | 6 | Shri Neeraj Shemwal | 14.12.2009 | 15.10.2010 | |
| 7 | Shri Aditya Kumar Rashtogi | 23.12.1973 | 20.12.1975 | 7 | Shri Dr. P. S. Gusani | 19.10.2010 | 28.05.2011 | |
| 8 | Shri Bhure Lal | 06.01.1976 | 16.09.1977 | 8 | Dr. V. Shanmugam | 29.05.2011 | 28.06.2011 | |
| 9 | Shri Rai Singh | 29.09.1977 | 17.04.1979 | 9 | Shri V. K. Shant | 29.06.2011 | 23.09.2011 | |
| 10 | Shri Rajat Kumar | 23.04.1979 | 26.08.1980 | 10 | Shri Dr. R. K. Shinha | 26.09.2011 | 16.04.2012 | |
| 11 | Shri D. S. Vensh | 01.10.1980 | 11.10.1981 | 11 | Shri Harish Chandra Kandpal | 17.04.2012 | 03.05.2012 | |
| 12 | Shri Krishna Kumar Singh | 10.11.1981 | 04.07.1985 | 12 | Shri S. A. Murugeshan | 04.05.2012 | 16.01.2015 | |
| 13 | Shri Love Verma | 05.07.1985 | 13.09.1985 | 13 | Shri Asok Kumar | 17.01.2015 | 13.10.2015 | |
| 14 | Shri Dr. Harikrishna | 14.09.1985 | 11.11.1985 | 14 | Shri Vinod Kumar Suman | 14.10.2015 | 16.05.2017 | |
| 15 | Shri Love Verma | 12.11.1985 | 15.07.1987 | 15 | Shri Ashish Joshi | 17.05.2017 | 20.07.2018 | |
| 16 | Shri Ravind Singh | 16.07.1987 | 17.12.1989 | 16 | Smt Swati S Bhadoriya | 24.07.2018 | 02.08.2021 | |
| 17 | Shri P. C. Sharma | 21.12.1989 | 06.07.1992 | 17 | Shri Himanshu Khurana | 03.08.2021 | ||
| 18 | Shri B. P. Pandey | 07.07.1992 | 07.07.1993 | |||||
| 19 | Shri Ashok Kumar | 08.07.1993 | 09.01.1994 | |||||
| 20 | Shri P. K. Sharma | 10.01.1994 | 27.06.1994 | |||||
| 21 | Shri Shatyjeet Thakur | 29.06.1994 | 05.07.1995 | |||||
| 22 | Shri Chandra Singh | 10.07.1995 | 22.04.1997 | |||||
| 23 | Shri Suresh Chandra | 23.04.1997 | 20.05.1997 | |||||
| 24 | Shri Himanshu Kumar | 26.05.1997 | 04.10.1997 | |||||
| 25 | Shri Dr. Umakant Panwar | 11.10.1997 | 25.10.1999 | |||||
| 26 | Shri Rajeev Agrwal | 25.10.1999 | 08.11.2000 |