Gujarat is one of the 24 states of the Indian Union. The governor is the titular head of the state and is appointed by the President of India. All the executive orders of the Government are issued in his name. A council of ministers headed by the chief minister aids and advises the governor in the exercise of his functions. The chief minister is the elected leader of the party in majority in the state legislature and is appointed by the governor Other ministers of the council of ministers also appointed by the governor on the advice of the chief minister.

Legislature :
The people elect the legislature in Gujarat as elsewhere in India, under a system of adult franchise. The state legislature is unicameral and is known as the vidhan sabha. The total membering of the assembly consists of 182 members.

Judiciary :
The state has independent judiciary with the high court at Ahmedabad. There are 18 judicial districts in the state including Ahmedabad city.

Executive :
The central administrative unit of the State Government is the civil secretariat known as Sardar Patel Sachivalaya Complex. It is located at Gandhinagar, the capital of the state. The secretariat is divided into 24 departments each headed by a secretary. For administrative convenience, the entire state is divided into 19 districts. The district is Sub-divided into taluka (tehsils) and mahals. The state has in all 184 talukas and mahals. A district, on an average, contains about ten talukas each of which is comprised of about 100 villages.



Panchayat Raj :
Gujarat has a decentralised development administrative machinery in the form of its panchayatiraj institution The scheme, popularly known as Panchayat raj, was advocated by Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the Nation, with a view to associate the people living in the remotest villages with the administration of the country.

This measure was introduced on April 1, 1963. It contemplated (1)a gram panchayat for each village or a group of villages or a nagar panchayat for a town with a population of more than 10,000 and unto 25,000 (2) a taluka panchayat for each taluka and (3) a district panchayat for each district of the state. There are 19 district panchayats, 182taluka Panchayat, 134 nagar Panchayat and 13,125-gram Panchayat covering 18,114 villages in the state. A Separate public service commission exists in the state for recruitment to the state government services

Computerization in State Administration :

Gujarat state has been in the leading position in almost all vital. sectors of development. To fulfil the increasing expectations of the people, aspirations for socio-economic transformation in public life and speedy solution of public grievances, the state government has introduced computerisation system in all the government offices to make the administration people-oriented.