The P.C.E-cum-Secretary, Buildings and Housing Department is in charge of construction and maintenance of Government building in the state assisted by Chief Engineer who is in charge of administrative and technical control of the department.
The Building and Housing Department has 2 circle offices, each headed by Superintending Engineer (South/West) and Superintending Engineer (North/East) having it’s office at Jorethang and Gangtok respectively. Both the Superintending Engineers are responsible for administration and execution of works within their circles.
Under Superintending Engineer (N/E), 3 Divisional Engineers in charge of Divisions are posted at Gangtok and under Superintending Engineer (S/W), 2 Divisional Engineers posted at Gyalshing in West Sikkim and Namchi in Sikkim, having jurisdiction of Districts, Gyalshing in the West District and Namchi in the South District.
Assisting the Divisional Engineers, there are 8 Assistant Engineers posted at different Sub-divisions located in all the 4 districts in the state. The prime source of any information related to the works are the Sub-Divisional and Divisional offices. Other than the Circle office as mentioned above, Planning and Monitoring cell headed by Superintending Engineer also functions under the control of the Secretary for maintaining strict adherence to the rules and norms set carrying out the technical checking of the project estimates.
The Architectural wing advises the Department on all questions relating to building plans in general, architectural treatment , selection of sites, approval of layouts, etc. and carries out technical scrutiny of plan of building proposed to be erected / constructed by Government. The Architects also prepares type drawings of different Housing Complexes and other administrative & functional building. The architect prepares drawings/ plans after taking into consideration the various requirements of the line Departments and submits the same to the competent authority for approval, as per necessity. The architect prepares working drawings and inspects building, at certain stages, from architectural view point to ensure proper construction as per the plans & detailed drawings.
The Electrical wing is headed by Divisional Engineer ( Electrical). The wing prepares Plans and Estimates for electrical installation in Government Building and carries out supervision on such works and also looks after the maintenance of all electrical installations in the Government Buildings.
The Department is in charge of maintenance of all residential and non-residential buildings of State Government Department. The Department thus deals with 2 classes of works “Original Works’ and ‘Repairs & Maintenance”. The expenditure under these classes is maintained separately.