Public Works Department at a Glance

Dr V K Gahlot
Executive Engineer & Technical Assistant
PWD Circle Bikaner
 Public Works Department
Administration
Hon’ble Public Works Minister

Hon’ble Minister of State, PWD

Principal Secretary, PWD

Secretary PWD

Chief Engineer & Additional Secretary

Chief Engineers
[Roads/Building/NH/PMGSY/Spl.Sch./Bridges/CRIF/Quality Control/ Elect./Mech]

(At PWD HQ , Chief Architect for Building Designs, Financial Advisors to assist in financial matters & Joint
Legal Remembrancer in legal matters and in IT matters by Jt. Director, IT )
Public Works Department Field Units : Officers
PWD Zone : Additional Chief Engineer

PWD Circle : Superintending Engineer

PWD Division : Executive Engineer

PWD Sub Division : Assistant Engineer

PWD Section : Junior Engineer

(At PWD Zone , assistance is provided by Chief Acctts. Officer in financial matters, and by
Deputy Legal Remembrancer in legal matters and SE cum TA in technical matters)

(At PWD Circle/Division, assistance is provided by Senior/Divisional Acctts. Officer in financial

matters, and EE/AE cum TA in technical matters)
Public Works Department : Duties & Responsibilities
 State PWD mainly executes the works for the Construction and maintenance of Roads, Bridges
Government Buildings . For the works of National Highways entrusted with State PWDs, Ministry of Road
Transport and Highways either directly or through its Regional Officers positioned in State capitals, is
involved in the tendering, payment of bills, on site monitoring etc. ; all the works entrusted with State
PWDs are routed through the Ministry.

 PWD manuals, Standing Orders and Circulars are important guidance/direction documents for efficient and
transparent working .

 Responsibilities of Engineers at all levels & various officers in PWD other than Engineers are enumerated

in Manual Vol.-I ( General) of PWD Department , Govt. of Rajasthan and other Orders by Administration
issued time to time.
 Public Works Department : Approvals & Sanctions
 Schedule of Powers [S.O.P.] are prescribed by Finance Deptt., Govt. of Rajasthan under PWF&AR
(Public Works Finance & Accounts Rules), which are exercised by Officers of works departments.
 Various Approvals are granted in the Annual state budget announcements by Hon’ble Chief Minister’s
and Hon’ble PWD Minister’s announcements And various schemes of Central & State Government.

 Administrative Sanction is issued by the concerned department e.g. PWD for roads.

 Financial Sanction is issued by Finance Department after Admin. Approval/sanction,

 Technical Approval may be provided in anticipation of Admn. & Fin. Sanction for early process of

estimation, tendering documents , but Technical Sanction is issued after receiving A&F sanction and

budgetary provisions.
 Public Works Department : Estimation & Tendering
 Forecast Estimate, Detailed Estimates, Revised Estimates,
 PPR & DPR ( Feasibility/ Preliminary & Detailed Project Reports)
 Extra Item, Excess Items, Deviation , CoS, EoT

 BSR : Basic Schedule of Rates – Roads/ Buildings/ PMGSY/NH ;

 G Schedule, for Nomenclature, Units and Rates for Bidding (tendering) of works
 NIB & SBD : Notice Inviting Bid & Standard Bidding Document

 Tender (Bid) processing is done as per RTPP rules 2013 with online publication of Bid documents at
government web portals namely eproc and sppp.rajasthan.gov.in and broad information made available
at PWD website https://pwd.rajasthan.gov.in and DIPR (department of information & publicity).

 The bid is approved by Bid Sanctioning Authority as per S.O.P. and work is allotted to the lowest
successful Bidder by PWD as per contractual terms-conditions.

 Online proceedings are done on state govt. portal IFMS for getting Budget and payments to the executed
work thereafter.
Funding and Payments for sanctioned works
• After issue of A&F (Administrative and financial) sanction for road or building work, proper budget

provision in financial year is made available by concerned department through finance department

under detailed budget head. The budget provision may be made under state fund scheme, central

assistance and amount/funds are made available to PWD through plan budget or deposit head. For the

grant provided by state govt. under demand 19 and 20, the funds are transferred directly to PWD,

otherwise DDO (drawing & disbursing officers) powers are to be provided by concerned department.
• Quarterly funds/LOC (amount for payment) is provided by finance department through IFMS

(Integrated Financial Management System) online to PWD.

• Detailed Estimate & Agreement with the Contractor must be referred by field engineer.

• Contractor is responsible for removal of defects during defect liability period (5 Years).
 Public Works Department Imp. Documents
 BSR : It is PWD document of Basic Schedule of Rates, having compiled

information of unit rates for all items related to Roads viz. Earthwork, SubBase, Base

Courses, Bituminous Works, Road Safety, Culverts etc. and related to building works

including Civil, Water supply & sanitation, Electrical, Horticulture etc., which is

normally revised annually district wise based on prevalent market rates of labour,

materials and machinery/equipment. This BSR is used for preparing detailed

estimates and Schedules for bidding.

 PWD’s three manuals (I-General, II-Works, III-Forms),

 Standing Orders and Circulars are important guidance/direction documents

prescribing norms.
 Important Reference Documents
PWD Manual Volume –I ( General)
PWD Manual Volume –II ( Works)
PWD Manual Volume –III ( Forms)

• MoRTH Specifications on Roads ( Orange Book)

• Rural Road Manual

BIS Codes
IRC Books
IRC Special Publications

National Building Code of India (Vol.I & II)

PWD Specifications for Buildings (Vol. I, II & III)
 Requisite documents with Field Engineer
Pocket Books for Highway Engineers
Pocket Books on Bridge Engineers
Pocket Book on Quality Control Tests for Roads

• Measurement Book
• Inspection Book
• QC Test registers
• Daily Diary

o Inventory and History of Roads under jurisdiction

Quality Control & Quality Assurance

• Quality : The totality of features and characteristics of a product or service

that bears upon its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs
• Quality Control : The Operational Techniques and activities that are used to
fulfil the requirements for desired quality
• Quality Assurance : All the planned and systematic activities implemented
within the quality system and demonstrated as needed to provide adequate
confidence that an entity will fulfil requirements for quality

• Manual on Quality control IRC Manual

• Quality Assurance Hand Books by MoRD
• Quality Testing Laboratories
Imp. Tasks in collaboration with administration
VVIP visits (Hon’ble President/V.P./P.M./Governor/CM)
 Coordination with local administration & Police
 Helipads construction, Airflow indicators, flags
 Safe Houses, Address platform, safe corridors
 Barricading, Tents ,
 Road safety , markings
 Smooth roads free of pothole/Patch, Alternate route
 Red Carpets, furniture
Relief Operations during Disasters ( Floods, collapses etc.)
Elections to LokSabha ,VidhanSabha, Panchayat /ULBs
Various issues affecting road assets
Periodical Renewal :- Roads need maintenance in routine and periodic intervals to preserve the
required serviceability level of pavement surface and offset the wear and tear caused by traffic
and weathering. It is urgently needed to prevent deterioration of pavement and to ensure that
qualities are kept up for future requirement of traffic during design life . The specifications for
renewal will depend upon the type of existing surface and its distress condition.
Encroachment on road land :-Main cause of road damage is excess water filling on roads.
This is mainly due to encroachment in road boundary, due to which either the drains have been
blocked or no space left for construction of drain. So it becomes very difficult and expensive to
maintain the road in such portions.
Mutation of land of PWD:-Many of the PWD roads/ land for which compensations has been
given and roads are existing on site but mutations of these lands are not opened on PWD name.
Due to this Department is facing problems, especially cases where land is to be acquired for
widening but land owners are demanding compensation for complete land because the land is
still not on the name of PWD.
Effect of overloading of vehicles on roads:-Due to overloading of vehicles roads are
deteriorating much earlier than design life and should be stopped with help of local
administration & transport department.
Digital PWD
• PWD Sewa App • APR
• Road Cut Permission Online • Property Returns
• CBUD • Sampark Portal
• IRAD • Lites
• OMMAS • RTI etc
• Meri Sadar
• RajKaj
• SSO
PWD Manuals Vol-I (General), Vol.-II (Works)
PWD Manual Vol.-III (Forms) & IRC Rural Roads Manual
Quality Assurance Hand Books Vol.-I & Vol.-II for Rural Roads
Pocket Books for ready reference for Highway Engineers
Manual & Pocket Book for Quality Control Tests
MoRTH Specifications for Road and Bridge
National Buiding Code of India
Detailed Estimate contents ( ref. PWM Vol-II Works)
Recommended Land Width , Control Lines [ PWD Manual Vol-I]
Imp Circular on penalizing Contractor on poor quality work
Imp Circular on fixing norms for QC Tests /Inspections
Inspection Book for inspections & recording important information
Inspection Book for inspections & recording important information
Measurement Book for recording site measurements
Measurement Book for recording site measurements
Duties of Assistant Engineers : PWM Vol-I Chapter2...this & other pages
Duties of Junior Engineers :- PWM Vol-I Chapter 2 ..this & other pages
What Next ?
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