district magistrate, often abbreviated to DM, is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer who is the senior-most EXECUTIVE magistrate and chief in-charge of general administration of a district in India. Since district magistrates are responsible for the collection of land revenue in the district, the post is also referred to as the District Collector in terms of the revenue department, and as the office-bearer works under the supervision of a Divisional Commissioner. The post is also known as Deputy Commissioner in several Indian states like Delhi, Haryana, PUNJAB, Himachal Pradesh etc.District collectorate of West Godavari district in the STATE of APA bilingual signboard of District magistrate office of New DelhiIn the revenue department, the Deputy Collectors (also called Deputy District Collector) is usually a TEHSILDARS who report into the District Revenue Officer (DRO) who is also called the Additional District Collector and is the overall in-charge of revenue department for the district, DRO in turn reports into the District Collector (also called District Commissioner) who is in-charge of overall management of the district across all departments.[1] Deputy Collectors are HIRED through State's Service Selection Commission, where as DRO and District Collector are usually Centre Civil Services employees appointed to the state cadre.Give me marks