New Delhi, The Public Works Division is prone to shut its ‘flyover zone’, which offers particularly with flyover development, and merge the employees with the highway upkeep wing.
PWD’s ‘flyover zone’ could also be closed as a part of restructuring
At present, a separate ‘flyover zone’, which has seven govt engineers and over a dozen assistant engineers, is dealing with simply two initiatives Nand Nagri flyover and Barapullah phase-3 development, each of that are greater than 90 per cent accomplished.
In April, the PWD constituted a committee to analyse the present workload of all circles, divisions, and subdivisions as per the present sanctioned posts and recommend restructuring of posts within the PWD to optimise manpower utilisation.
“The flyover zone was created in the previous government for the Commonwealth Games event, when a lot of flyovers were being constructed. But currently we have just two projects, which are almost completed and stuck just because of the requirement of tree-cutting permissions, otherwise there is hardly any work,” a PWD official stated.
Delhi has 100 flyovers, largely constructed by the PWD, some by the Municipal Company of Delhi , and in a while transferred to the division for upkeep.
“The role of the separate wing is to carry out feasibility studies, prepare detailed project reports, and then later execute the project on the ground. After which the maintenance zone takes over the road or flyover,” added the official.
There are some wings, like upkeep, which has sufficient work all year long, which may utilise the employees, nevertheless, the choice isn’t remaining but, he added.
In line with officers, the committee has began engaged on a workload evaluation of present posts and whether or not there’s a requirement to switch an official or create and shut any new division.
At present, the PWD has three highway zones—North, South and East—and numerous different subdivisions to handle the whole metropolis and extra new zones might be added within the restructuring course of.