Income Tax Treatment on Interest on House Building Advance
Interest on borrowed capital for House Building Advance would be on the basis of accrual of interest which would start running from the date of drawal of the advance.
Public Works
Public Works Department provides infrastructural support for both original and repair works to all the departments directly under the Govt. of West Bengal.
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Reorganization of Circles under PW Dte., PW (R) Dte. and PW (CB) Dte.
Reorganization of different Circles under PW Dte., PW (R) Dte. and PW (CB) Dte. specially with the object to implement the concept of three zones namely North Zone, West Zone and South Zone for better supervision and monitoring of the projects.
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Reconstitution of Tender Committee of Public Works Department
In view of introduction of Integrated Finance Branch in Public Works Department a need was felt to reconstitute the existing Tender Committee for different wings of this department.
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Creation of Post of Senior Superintending Engineer under PWD
Governor has already been pleased to create 21 numbers additional posts of Senior Superintending Engineers and also to convert existing 41numbers of non-functional berth of Superintending Engineer [Selection Grade] into the post of Senior Superintending Engineers.
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Restructuring Engineering Setup of PWD Creating Five Zones
There will be five zones namely North Zone, Central Zone, West Zone, South West Zone and South Zone each headed by Chief Engineers of the two directorates i.e. Public Works and Public Works (Roads) separately.
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Security Deposit and Earnest Money: Amendment in PWD Code
A security deposit of 12.5 lakhs was necessary for exemption of earnest money deposit while participating in tender. Such provision from Public Works Code is deleted.
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Creation of Additional Posts in Different Departments of West Bengal
A number of proposals for awarding different service benefits to the employees of the Government of West Bengal and reorganizing the cadre of different Services of Government of West Bengal through creation of some posts were under consideration of the Government for sometime past.
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Restructuring of Public Works Department
To improve the functional efficiency, total working jurisdiction of Public Works Department over the state will be split in three zones namely North Zone, West Zone and South Zone headed by Chief Engineers.
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Ceiling of Monthly Expenditure i/o Hired Inspection Vehicles of PWD
Governor is pleased to raise/ enhance the ceiling of monthly expenditure for the inspection vehicles used only by the officers of this department as mentioned below.
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Nodal Officer for Vetting of Estimates by Public Works Department
For streamlining the process, it has been decided to introduce single window entry of all projects having multi-discipline [Architecture, Civil, Electrical/ IT (Electrical), Mechanical] vetting works through the Chief-Engineer, Planning (South Zone), PWD.