Revenue Department is one of the oldest administrative Department of the Government of Assam having been in existence even before 1874.

The Secretariat then consisted of following three Departments with just one Secretary reporting to Chief Commissioner :

1) General Department
2) Judicial Department
3) Revenue Department

The Revenue Department at that time was dealing with diverse subjects such as forest, immigration and labour, Finance, Commerce, economic products like silk, indigo tea, excise and registration, survey and settlement, agriculture, veterinary, irrigation and canals. Cooperative credit, fisheries, weights and measures, archaeology and Museum, Courts of Wards, Mines and Minerals, famine and flood relief, debt cancellation Board etc. Later depending on the growth of activities several new Departments were created like Finance in 1903 Agriculture in 1907, forest in 1937 etc.

Revenue Officer Coference (5th June 2007)