Central Government Departments

 

Projects of Central Public Works Department

CPWD handles a very large number of projects for different ministries and departments.

CPWD is a total service provider to all its clients. Right from conceiving the project to designing it and, if required, providing maintenance management after construction. Complete range of services needed by a project from Architectural, structural, Civil, Electrical, Horticulture etc. are provided by the department.

At present CPWD has more than 2400 works costing more than rupees one crore at various stages in hand. Total value of works in progress is approximately Rs.3530 crore. Value of works sanctioned is about Rs. 1826 crore and value of works in pipeline is estimated as Rs. 3429 crore.

A brief list of some projects presently in hand and details of some major projects are given below:

• Development of 1015 Km. of roads for Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojna in 4 districts in Bihar (300 crore)

• Development of 2000 Km. of state highways under Rashtrya Sam Vikas Yojna in 33 districts of Bihar (1600 crore)

• Building inland waterways terminals at Guwahati, Patna , Kerala, Kolkatta (Appx. 125 crore). 20 more terminals to be taken up.

• GPRA at Andrewsganj, Delhi (33.54 crore)

• JLN Bhawan for MEA, Delhi (140 crore)

• Office building for Cabinet Secretariat at CGO Complex, New Delhi (95 crore)

• Office building for SEBI, Mumbai (50 crore)

• Office building & staff quarters for Income Tax, department Hyderabad ( 40.50 crore)

• Office for AG, Raipur ( 35.85 crore)

• Resdl . Complex for AG, Patna (20.32 crore)

• GPOA, Hyderabad (24.0 crore)

• GPOA at CBD Shahadra, Delhi- (22 crore)

• GPOA at INA, Delhi (85 crore)

• GPOA, Cochin (19.80 crore)

• GPRA, Bangalore (15.85 crore)

• GPRA, Shimla (17.26 crore)

• GPRA, Mumbai (11.95 crore)

GPRA Nagpur

• Construction of Sardar Swaran Singh National Institute of Renewable energy, Kapurthala- Rs. 21.53 crores

• Trauma Centre at RML Hospital- 12 crore

• Super Specialty hospital for ESIC at Kollam, Kerala

• CN Tower AIIMS, Delhi ( 15 crore)

• Quarters for Foreign Services Institute, Delhi (23.66 crore)

• Training Institute, Ministry of Statistics, Gr. NOIDA(23.59 crore)

• Chancery building kabul , (45 crore)

• Afghan Parliament under consideration

• Hostel & Quarters for MEA, Delhi (19.73 crore)

• New wing for National Gallery of Modern Art, Jaipur House, New Delhi ( 50 crore)

• More than 500 works of Ministry of Tourism & Culture in J&K, Assam, Uttaranchal, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, UP, Gujarat, Bihar, West Bengal, Tamil nadu, Haryana, New Delhi, Kerala, Punjab, Maharashtra etc.

• Development of tourism circuit at Bodh Gaya -20 crore

• Construction of accommodation for, officers of Southern Naval Command at Cochin (76.74 crore)

• Office for Regional labour Commissioner, Kanpur

• National Academy for Customs & Central Excise, Faridabad

• Office building for UPSC, New Delhi ( 20 crore)

• Institute of Hotel Management, Kurukshetra (15 crore)

• Construction of various buildings for IIT Roorkee, IIT Delhi

• Construction of various buildings for Assam University at Silchar , Assam

• Construction of Mizoram University , Aizwal

• Construction of Navodaya Vidyalyas in various states ( 300 completed 200 in hand)

 

Publications of Central Public Works Department

CPWD for its effective working has developed the following codes, manuals, schedules, technical specifications, design manuals and other necessary technical publications.The important ones are enclosed for reference:

Codes

1. CPWD Department Code

2. CPWD Accounts Code

Manuals

3. Manual Volume I

4. Works manual (Formerly called Manual Volume II)

5. CWD Manual Volume III

6. Maintenance Manual

Schedules of Rates

7. Delhi Schedule of Rates2002(view in PDF or EXCEL )

8. Electrical Schedule of Rates

Specifications

9. Specifications Volumes I

Specifications Volumes II , III , IV

10. Specification for Electrical Works

Design Manuals

11. Integrated Analysis & Design of Buildings Manual

12. General Conditions of Contract - 2001

13. Rules for enlistment of contractors

14. Contract Circulars

15. Manual on Rain Water Harvesting

16. Compilation of circulars on Quality Assurance

17. Integrated Planning & Analysis (IPA)

18. Handbook on Repairs & Rehabilitation of structures

19. Design Manuals

20. Space Standards for design of buildings for aged and disabled

Other Publications

21. Cost Index Book for all cities

22. Books of Returns Volumes 1 to 6

23. Training Calendar for the year 2005-06

 

Training Institute of Central Public Works Department

CPWD Training Institute is placed in a lush green, serene and salubrious environment spread over 30 acres of land in Kamla Nehru Nagar, Ghaziabad. The Campus is residential and has all the facilities to qualify as an ideal training organisation.

The institute is unique as it caters to the field of Public Works. The institute conducts training programmes, workshops, brainstorming sessions, seminars etc. to upgrade the techno-management skill of its officers at different levels. These training programs are conducted in diverse streams such as Civil Engineering, Electrical and Mechnical Engineering, Architecture, Computer Application and Management Techniques through the main institute at Ghaziabad and the Regional Training Institutes and Workmen Training Centres at Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata.

The CPWD Training Institute is conducting different training programmes to train all the workers for upgradation of their latest knowledge. The Training Institute had already trained more than 600 workers and after training programmes these workers will get certification from IGNOU which will improve the skill of the workers in their day to day working and it will also help in their promotion to different grades.

 

History of Central Public Works Department

Ancient History

1. The execution of public work has been an organized function of the State from times immemorial in our country. Archaeological finds a Mohan jodaro and Harappa have revealed to us the building traditions of India prevalent 3,000 years before the Christian Era. Houses with burnt brick construction although without ornamentation, complete with drains, storeys, and pipes. Verandahs, swimming pool and hot air baths and wide streets as discovered consequent to the scientific excavations at these sites, establish that these townships supplied to their citizens in those days comforts and luxuries not available anywhere in the world during those times.

2. Kautilya’s Arthashastra, one of the immortal woks on Government functions and politics, written as early as 300 years before Christian Era, speaks of Officers of the State in–Charge of Finance, public works and royal correspondence. According to this Shastra, duties of a king included construction of reservoirs full with water-either perennial or draws from other sources and providing sites, roads and other such necessary requirements to these who constructed the reservoirs of their own accord. It is stated there that –

“Whoever stays away from any kind of co-operative construction shall send his servants and bullocks to carry on his work and shall have a share in the expenditure but no claims to profit.”

This system of nearly 2300 years old appears to have anticipated the community projects ideas of those days. This ancient book contains details of layouts of villages, townships, forts, width of roads, charlet road, royal roads, roads leading to Military stations, gardens, groves and forests, burial ground, etc., which remind us of the fact that ideas of modern town planning are not really modern, as thought by us.

3. The art of stone cutting and carving was well developed during the times of Ashoka the Great. The Ashoka Pillars called moonlight were made of the single blocks of sandstone and were polished to appear like metallic columns. These were 40’ to 50’in height and at their tops were crowned with figures of animals like the lion, the elephant and the bull. Some of these still stand to day, which speak well of skilful art of our craftsmen of those days. The dignified massive simplicity, extra-ordinary, precision, accuracy and spirited realism of the Mauryan art of that period were praised by Mr.john Marshall one of the great authorities on ancient history and archaeology. He described Sarnath, the capital of Ashoka as “the product of the most developed art which the world was congnizant in the third century the handwork of one who had generations of artistic effort and experience behind him.” Another great authority on ancient Indian history, Dr. Smith observed that the skill of the stone cutter might be said to have attained perfection and accomplished tasks which would perhaps be found beyond the powers of the 20th century. The fact that these pillars had to be taken away form the quarries, fabricated, transported to various places to the skill and resources of the knowledge of the stonecutters and engineers of the Mauryan age. A Chinese pilgrim who came to India a thousand years after these pillars were treated speaks of these stone buildings of Ashoka having been created by `spirit’. The accounts of another Chinese pilgrim, who came to India in seventh century and lived for ten years in the University of Nalanda has spoken highly of grandeur of this great temple of learning in ancient India. It had an observatory and a large library in three buildings, 8 halls, and 300 rooms. The University of Nalanda in its conception and grandeur compares favourably with best our modern Universities and is a great tribute to the engineers and artisans of those days.

4. The tradition for constructional activities did not end with Hindu period of Indian History. The buildings constructed during the regime of Khilji Kings and Slave King, Kutub-ud-din carried on this tradition, Kutub Minar at Delhi. The foundations of which were laid in year 1231, its overwhelming strength and its perfection, symmetry and ornamental show prove that we were capable in the 13th century to build structured involving highly technical details. King Feroz Tughlak had a passion for founding cities and in his life time build two cities, Firozabad where modern Delhi no stands, and Jaunpur. He his also credited with 845 Public Works. he had eminent Architects in those days in the persons of Malik Ghazi Shahana and Abdur Hakk. The plans of every building were submitted to the Financial Officer. The buildings put in by King Feroz are virile and strong and very sincere in purpose.

Moghul Period and after

5. The Moghul Kings maintained the tempo of building activities, in the shape of well-designed townships, palaces and forts, and memorials. A contemporary Englishman, Ralph Fitch, who visited Agra and Fatehpur Sikri describes these as “great cities either of them much greater than London.” Humayun’s Tomb in Delhi, which was completed in year 1569, is a building of exceptional merit famous for its domes. King Akbar commenced the fortification of Agra and Allahabad etc. and constructed many buildings of red stones at Agra. The greatest architectural creation of Akbar is Fatehpur Sikri with nine gates. It is famous for the building of red stone as well as for king Jehangir who was also a patron of architecture and painting. His special taste in gardens was exhibited in the perfection attained by the Moghual gardens of which Shalimar bagh in Kashmir is the one.

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