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The Newscraving Desk
Srinagar, Mar 21: The authorities have issued a notification to reorganise the Public Works Department (PWD).
As per an official notification issued here, the authorities said that the sanction “is hereby accorded to the restructuring of Public Works (R&B) Department by way of re-organisation of cadre and rationalization of jurisdiction of its subordinate/field offices by making them co-terminus with territorial limits of divisions, districts and blocks of the Union territory of
Jammu and Kashmir.”
Vide a Government Order No. 22-JK of GAD , the Development Commissioner, Works (Ex-officio Secretary, Tech., R&B Department) shall be re-designated as Engineer-in-Chief
(Secretary, Technical R&B Department). Furthermore, Mechanical Engineering Department, Jammu/Kashmir shall be renamed as Mechanical and Hospital Directorate J/K respectively.
The post of Chief Engineer, DIQC shall be filled from Civil Wing of PW(R&B) henceforth instead of Hydraulic Wing. One post each of Chief Engineer, Mechanical Wing and Chief
Engineer, Mughal Road Project is transferred to Civil Wing. Conversion of three (03) posts of Chief Engineers of SKUASTKashmir (01), SKUAST-Jammu (01) and SKIMS, Soura (01)
from deputation post to duty post by abolishing these posts from the concerned subsumed/merged engineering wings of departments.
Mechanical Engineers shall be posted in Civil Wing of R&B, except in Jammu Zone, for the purpose of snow clearance and other works, as under :—a. Each Chief Engineer (Civil) R&B (Zonal Office) shall have one Executive Engineer Mechanical. Each Superintending Engineer (Civil) R&B (Circle Office) shall have one AEE (Mechanical). The order further reads: Each Executive Engineer (Civil) R&B (Division Office) shall have one AE (Mechanical) in their offices.
d. Each Assistant Executive Engineer (Civil) R&B (Sub-Division Office) shall have one JE (Mechanical) in their offices. Conversion of eight (08) deputation posts of Superintending
Engineers (Civil) to duty posts, by abolishing these posts from the concerned subsumed department(s) for their adjustment in new territorial jurisdictions which have been identified for these Superintending Engineers (Civil).
Conversion of deputation posts of Superintending Engineer (Mech.) (01), Executive Engineer (Mech.) (05), Assistant Executive Engineer (Mech.) (04), Assistant Engineer (Mech.) (04) and Junior Engineer (Mech.) (14) from subsumed department into duty posts by abolishing such post(s) from the concerned subsumed/merged engineering wings of departments.
Conversion of deputation posts of Executive Engineers (Civil) (36), Assistant Executive Engineers (56), Assistant Engineers (19) and Junior Engineer (82) and Draftsman
(Civil) (48) into duty posts by abolishing these posts from the concerned subsumed/merged engineering wings of departments.
Formulation of new cadre strength as per revised structure for inclusion in respective Schedule-II of Gazetted/Non-Gazetted Engineering Recruitment Rules by Issuance of corresponding notifications, thereby revising SRO-661 (Gazetted) and SRO-654
(Non-Gazetted) dated 25-10-2019 respectively.
There would be no change in Recruitment Rules (Gazetted and Non-Gazetted) except Schedule-II of existing Recruitment Rules of engineering wings of departments including R&B Department.
The posts merged from other departments into the PW(R&B) Department and officials who were appointed through the merged department, their service rules will remain the same through which they have been appointed initially and they shall be promoted/
superannuated as per their recruitment rules and seniority of such employees shall be maintained separately by the PW (R&B) Department.
All civil works of other departments (merged vide Government Order No. 752-JK(GAD) of 2020 dated 10-08-2020) shall be executed by the newly created Divisional Sub-Divisions as per
their jurisdiction co-terminus with CD Blocks of RDD (Annexure-A to F). All Works/contracts under execution by a particular Division of PWD shall also be transferred to newly
created Divisional Sub-Division as per the jurisdiction mentioned in Annexure to this order. Existing contracts of other departments (merged vide Government
Order No.752-JK(GAD) of 2020 dated 10-08-2020) shall be
transferred to the new territorial Divisions/Sub-Divisions, however
resources shall be provided by the concerned department being
project authority for completion of such projects.
The exercise of distribution of Assets (Roads, Bridges and
Buildings), liability and contracts shall start from the date of
issuance of this order and shall be completed by or before
28th February, 2023. The jurisdiction of CD block shall be the
guiding Principle during the course of this distribution.
The process of handover/takeover of assets along with furniture
and fixtures and engineering staff of other merged departments
shall be completed by 1st February, 2023. In case these assets
are not found suitable, such assets shall be handed over back to
the respective department with a certificate by the concerned
Chief Engineer, PW (R&B) that such property is not suitable due
to dilapidated condition or remote location.
All existing offices/furniture and fixtures/space of Engineers
presently under use in other departments (merged vide Government
Order No. 752-JK (GAD) of 2020 dated 10-08-2020) shall be
deemed to have been transferred to the PW(R&B) Department,
so that public money is saved from new construction for housing
new offices to the extent possible.
Existing Dak Bungalows, Inspection Huts, Rest Houses of R&B
Department shall be used to the extent possible for housing of
newly created offices to save public money in construction/hiring
of accommodation for new offices for time being.
Wherever there is no suitable office or space available at the
newly designated jurisdiction, the process for identification and
acquisition of suitable piece of land, free from all encumbrances
is to be started within a month of issuance of this order. In case
suitable Government assets or buildings are not available, the
concerned officer shall identify suitable Government or private
land free from all encumbrances for such purposes.
To include newly created divisions, necessary amendment shall
be made on JKPWDOMS by 28th February, 2023 to include
newly created divisions.
PWD shall accordingly revise its budget proposal for salary/
revenue expenditure within 02 days of issuance of this order and
forward the same to the Finance Department so that requisite
budgetary provisions for FY 2023-24 are provisioned accordingly.
The offices of Executive Engineers of merged departments
(merged vide Administrative Council Decision No. 102/15/2020
dated 04-08-2020 read with Government Order No. 752-JK
(GAD) of 2020 dated 10-08-2020 will furnish details of their offices/
assets/contracts to the PW(R&B) Department within 03 days of
issuance of this order.
The location of offices of Executive Engineers/Assistant
Executive Engineers shall be located physically in their newly
created jurisdictions (details in Annexure(s) and will not be
changed/modified without the approval of Administrative Council.
Creation of 782 posts in different categories by corresponding
reduction of existing 1182 posts of different categories in
the PW(R&B) Department and the details of various posts
(Gazetted=154 and Non-Gazetted=796) of different categories
of 10 departments where Engineering Wings were merged/
subsumed with PW (R&B) Department are given as
Annexure-G and G-1 respectively.
Restructuring of manpower/offices of various wings of PW (R&B)
Department as per details given in Annexure-H to L.
All necessary preparations regarding establishment of offices,
divisions of roads/assets and projects/contracts shall be completed
by 28th February, 2023.
