Government to coporatise Central Public Works Deparment
NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government has initiated a move to corporatise Central Public Works Department, its 162-year old main construction arm.
The move comes after a group of secretaries, appointed by Modi on health, urban development and sanitation sectors made a recommendation to this effect, saying that this will help decentralise CPWD’s operations and improve its performance.
The urban development ministry, the nodal ministry for CPWD, has floated a request for proposal or RFP to study the working and reorganisation of the department. The terms of reference include studying various aspects such as constituting CPWD as an autonomous central works board on the lines of Railway Board, separating the department’s maintenance functions and giving it to a not-for-profit company to be constituted as a subsidiary under the department.
The terms also include analysis of structure and organisation of CPWD and comparative analysis of other central government organisations in civil and electrical construction sectors.
The move comes after a group of secretaries, appointed by Modi on health, urban development and sanitation sectors made a recommendation to this effect, saying that this will help decentralise CPWD’s operations and improve its performance.
The urban development ministry, the nodal ministry for CPWD, has floated a request for proposal or RFP to study the working and reorganisation of the department. The terms of reference include studying various aspects such as constituting CPWD as an autonomous central works board on the lines of Railway Board, separating the department’s maintenance functions and giving it to a not-for-profit company to be constituted as a subsidiary under the department.
The terms also include analysis of structure and organisation of CPWD and comparative analysis of other central government organisations in civil and electrical construction sectors.
