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Jammu, April 5: Jammu and Kashmir government today deferred restructuring of Public Works Department (PWD) till further orders and things will continue to move with the present and established structure.
The order in this regard was issued by the general administrative department of the J&K government.
In the order, which was issued by commissioner secretary GAD Sanjeev Verma, it reads, “It is hereby ordered that the restructuring of the Public Works (R&B) Department by way of re-organisation of cadre and rationalization of jurisdiction(s) ordered in terms in Government Order No. 22-JK(GAD) of 2023 dated 06.01.2023 is hereby deferred till further orders.”
The restructuring of PWD was issued by the government on January 6, 2023 and designation of many officers was changed.
With the deferment order, all officers will be able to perform their duties which they used to do before January 6 and things will continue to move like they were moving before.
By virtue of the January 6 order, the Development Commissioner Works (Ex- officio Secretary Tech. R&B Department) had been re-designated as Engineer-in-Chief (Secretary Technical R&B Department).
Similarly, Mechanical Engineering Department Jammu and Kashmir had been renamed as Mechanical and Hospital Directorate J/K respectively. Also, one post each of Chief Engineer Mechanical Wing and Chief Engineer Mughal Road Project was transferred to Civil Wing.
The government had also ordered conversion of three posts of Chief Engineers of SKUAST- Kashmir (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 were posted in Civil Wing of R&B, except in Jammu zone, for the purpose of snow clearance and other works, as under: Each Chief Engineer (Civil) R&B (Zonal Office) should have one Executive Engineer Mechanical; each Superintending Engineer (Civil) R&B (Circle Office) was to have one AEE (Mechanical); Each Executive Engineer (Civil) R&B (Division Office) was to have one AE (Mechanical) in their offices and each Assistant Executive Engineer (Civil,) R&B (Sub Division Office) was to have one JE (Mechanical) in their offices.
The government had also ordered conversion of eight 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 had been identified for these Superintending Engineers (Civil).
It had also ordered conversion of deputation posts of Superintending Engineer (Meeh) (01), Executive Engineer (Meeh) (05), Assistant Executive Engineer (Meeh) (04), Assistant Engineer (Mech) (04) and Junior Engineer (Meeh) (14) from subsumed department into duty posts by abolishing such post(s) from the concerned subsumed/merged engineering wings of departments.
The government had also ordered 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.
It had also ordered 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.
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