List of districts of Uttarakhand

A district of Uttarakhand state is an administrative geographical unit, headed by a District Magistrate (earlier called District Collector), an officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Service. The district magistrates are assisted by a number of officers (such as deputy collector, assistant collector, additional district magistrate, sub-divisional magistrate, tehsildar, naib tehsildar belonging to the Uttarakhand Civil Service and other Uttarakhand state services.

A Superintendent of Police, an officer belonging to the Indian Police Service, heads the police in the district and is entrusted with the responsibility of maintaining law and order and related issues. He is assisted by the officers of the Uttarakhand Police Service.

A Deputy Conservator of Forests, an officer belonging to the Indian Forest Service, is responsible for managing the Forests, environment and wild-life related issues of the district. He is assisted by the officers of the Uttarakhand Forest Service and other Uttarakhand forest officials and Uttarakhand wildlife officials.

Sectoral development is looked after by the district head of each development department such as Public works, Health, Education, Agriculture, Animal husbandry, etc. These officers belong to the various Uttarakhand state services.

Four new districts are proposed in Uttarakhand: Didihat, Kotdwar, Ranikhet and Yamunotri.

Proposed districts
In November 2000 when uttarakhand was created as a new state it had inherited 13 districts. As of november 2022, since then no new districts have been created even though other newly created states have almost doubled the number of new districts for rapid development.

Indian National Congress had planned the following for districts which did not matter last due to the change in the government.
 * 2011 Indian National Congress plan for 4 new districts:


 * 2016 INC plan for 09 new districts (including 4 districts from earlier 2011 BJP plan):


 * 1) Ramnagar, from Nainital district (Ramnagar teshsil), Almora district (Molekhal teshsil) and Pauri Garhwal district (Dhoomakot  teshsil).
 * 2) Kashipur, from Udham Singh Nagar district (Jaspur, Kashipur & Bajpur teshsils).
 * 3) Roorkee, from Haridwar district (Roorkee teshsil).
 * 4) Rishikesh, from Dehradun district (Rishikesh teshsil), Tehri Garhwal district (Narendra Nagar teshsil), and Pauri Garhwal district (Yamkeshwar teshsil).
 * 5) Khatima, from Udham Singh Nagar district (Khatima & Sitarganj teshsils).

From time to time, several chief ministers and elected representatives, such as MLAs and MPs, have proposed the following new districts:
 * Additional demands for new districts:


 * 1) Chakrata, from Dehradun district.
 * 2) Dharchula, from Pithoragarh district.
 * 3) Gangotri and Purola, from Uttarkashi district.
 * 4) Haldwani, from Nainital district.
 * 5) Karnaprayag and Tharali, from Chamoli district.
 * 6) other proposed are Ghastoli, Meelam (Milam), Dugtu, Gunji, Munsiari (Munsyari), Niti, Tyuni, Thalisain, Syaldey/Ataliya, etc