Section 3(2) in The Punjab State Agricultural Marketing Board (Engineering Wing) Execution of Works Rules, 1979
(2)Assistant Engineer shall be incharge of a Sub-Division Office and will have jurisdiction over all works falling within the area of four or more sections as may be ordered by the Chief Engineer from time to time. He shall be an Assistant to the Executive Engineer and shall be responsible to him for the management and execution of all works falling within his Sub-Division. His main functions and responsibilities shall be :-(i)to check at site and examine Nishans, survey plans and rough cost estimates prepared by the Sectional Officer, before submission to the Executive engineer;(ii)to arrange and supervise the actual execution of all works in the Sub-Division in accordance with the sanctioned estimates, specifications, drawings and financial provisions;(iii)to check the foundations personally in case of important buildings, bridges and culverts etc. to ensure the soundness and to record the measurements thereof, and also to check and record the measurements of all other underground items of works, before the same are concealed;(iv)to maintain all initial accounts of expenditure on works in his charge to see that there is no excess over the sanctioned estimates and submit the same to the Executive Engineer every month;(v)to take measurements of all important items of works such as foundations and steel reinforcement, and to check and measure all works measurements which are recorded by the Sectional Officer. For the preparation of final bills of Originally Works, he shall either record the measurements personally or exercise hundred per cent check if the measurements are recorded by the Sectional Officers;(vi)to check the Muster Rolls of labour employed and make payment to them personally in case of works under execution through departmental labour, and further to ensure that the progress achieved is commensurate with the expenditure incurred on labour and the same is within the sanctioned provisions. He shall also exercise occasional check over the labour;(vii)to keep a vigilant control over expenditure and report progress of work to the Executive Engineer every month and also to report such progress to the higher authorities, if so desired;(viii)to check all stores in his Sub-Division twice a year and the Tools and Plant articles once a year and to record a certificate of this check on the relevant document or register;(ix)to exercise proper care for the safe custody and appropriate use of funds of the Board or Committees as the case may be, which may be with him or his subordinates in the form of Imprest, and render account of the same to his Executive Engineer every month.
