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Part III—Section 1(a)
General Statutory Rules, Notifications, Orders, Regulations, etc.,
issued by Secretariat Departments.
NOtIfIcatIONS by GOveRNmeNt
RURaL DeveLOPmeNt aND PaNchayat Raj DePaRtmeNt
aMeNdMeNts t O the taMiL Nadu PaNchayats (PReP aRatiON OF PLaNs aNd estiMates FOR wORks aNd MOde aNd cONditiONs OF cONtRacts) RuLes, 2007.
[G.O. Ms. No. 111, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (PR-1), 21st August 2018.]
No. SRO a-42(a)/2018.
in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) and clauses (xv) and (xx) of sub-section (2) of section 242 of the tamil Nadu Panchayats act, 1994 (tamil Nadu act 21 of 1994), the governor of tamil Nadu hereby makes the following amendments to the tamil Nadu Panchayats (Preparation of plans and estimates for works and mode and conditions of contracts) Rules, 2007:-
Amendments
in the said Rules,-
(1) in rule 4,- (a) for the table, the following table shall be substituted, namely:-
"The Table
Value of Original Works
Sl.
No.
Competent
Authority
Value of
Maintenance
Works
Value of
Electrical
Works
(1) (2)
(3)
(4) (5)
Not more than rupees fifty thousand.
Not more than rupees fifty thousand.
1 Block engineer / assistant engineer (Rural development and Panchayat Raj)
All housing works constructed by the beneficiaries under any central or state government sponsored schemes not exceeding the unit cost as fixed by the Government and for all other works, including houses constructed through tendering, costing not more than rupees two lakhs.
[1]
ex-iii-1(a)(299)2 tamil nadu government gazette extraordinary
Value of Original Works
Sl.
No.
Competent
Authority
Value of
Maintenance
Works
Value of
Electrical
Works
(1) (2)
(3)
(4) (5) 2
assistant executive engineer (Rural development and Panchayat Raj)
For all works, including houses constructed through tendering, costing more than rupees two lakhs and not more than rupees ten lakhs, except housing works constructed by beneficiaries under any Central or State government sponsored schemes.
More than rupees fifty thousand and not more than rupees two lakhs.
More than rupees fifty thousand and not more than rupees two lakhs.
For all works costing more than rupees ten lakhs and not more than rupees fifty lakhs.
3 executive engineer (Rural development and Panchayat Raj)
More than rupees two lakhs and not more than rupees ten lakhs.
More than rupees two lakhs and not more than rupees ten lakhs.
4 superintending More than rupees fifty lakhs. More than rupees ten lakhs.
More than rupees ten lakhs.";
engineer (Rural development and Panchayat Raj)
(b) for explanation (1), the following explanation shall be substituted, namely:-
"(1) upgrading of a road from lower surface condition to higher surface condition by providing sub-base and / or Base courses with or without Black topping will be deemed as an original work. For example, re-laying of water Bound Macadam (wBM) layers(s) or wet Mix Macadam (wMM) with or without Black topping (Bt) and re-laying or renewal of bituminous layer as a whole length or full length will be deemed as original work and not maintenance work.";
(c) for explanation (3), the following explanation shall be substituted, namely:-
"(3) Repair or re-laying work undertaken in parts of a road will be deemed as maintenance work.";
(d) in explanations (4) and (5), for the expression "assistant engineers", the expression "assistant engineers / Block engineers" shall be substituted;
(2) in rule 5,-
(a) for rule 5, other than the explanations thereunder, the following rule shall be substituted, namely:-
"5. measurement and check measurement of all works of village Panchayats, Panchayat Union councils and District Panchayats other than the housing works constructed by beneficiaries under various Central and State Government sponsored schemes and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (mGNReGS).- the authorities competent to measure and check-measure all original, maintenance and electrical works done or materials supplied, whether by contract or by departmental agency for all works including the individual houses constructed through tenders but other than the housing works constructed by beneficiaries under various Central and State government sponsored schemes and the Mahatma gandhi National Rural employment guarantee scheme (MgNRegs) shall be as specified in the Table below:-
The Table
Sl. No. Value of Work Measuring Officer Check-measuring Officer
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
1 Not more than rupees two lakhs Overseer Block engineer or assistant
engineer (Rural development and Panchayat Raj)
assistant executive engineer (Rural development and Panchayat Raj).";
2 More than rupees two lakhs Block engineer or assistant engineer (Rural development and Panchayat Raj)3 tamil nadu government gazette extraordinary (b) in explanation (1), for the expression "assistant engineer", the expression "assistant engineer/ Block engineer" shall be substituted;
(c) in explanation (3), for the expression "rupees one lakh", the expression, "rupees two lakh" shall be substituted;
(3) for rule 5-a, the following rule shall be substituted, namely:-
"5-A. Measurement and check–measurement of housing works constructed by beneficiaries under various Central and State Government sponsored schemes.- For all the housing works constructed by beneficiaries under various central and state government sponsored schemes, irrespective of value of works, the Overseer shall be the measuring officer and the Block Engineer or the Assistant Engineer (Rural Development and Panchayat Raj) shall be the check measuring officer for the unit cost as fixed by the Government.
explanation. - the assistant executive engineer (Rural development and Panchayat Raj) working in the sub-divisions shall super-check not less than five per cent of the housing works under various Central and State Government sponsored schemes.";
(4) in rule 6,-
(a) in sub-rule (1), for the expression "rupees one lakh", occurring in two places, the expression "rupees two lakhs" shall be substituted;
(b) after sub-rule (1), as so amended, the following sub-rule shall be inserted, namely:-
"(1-a) the provisions in sub-rule (1) shall apply only to 100 per cent labour oriented works in the case of Mahatma gandhi National Rural employment guarantee scheme (MgNRegs). For the works involving substantial material component works, the measurement and check-measurement shall be done as indicated in the table under rule 5".
(c) in sub-rule (2), for the expression "rupees one lakh", the expression "rupees two lakh" shall be substituted;
haNs Raj VeRMa,
Additional Chief Secretary to Government.
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