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The Punjab Buildings Department is responsible for the execution, maintenance, and repair of public buildings in the province. Same as Punjab Highways Department, it is also divided into three zones: North, South, and Central. Each zone is headed by a Chief Engineer, who is a grade-20 officer from the engineering branch of the department. [1]
The PWD was subjected to civilian control in 1851, though it remained responsible for military and civil works. [4] In 1881, the PWD's military-related works were segregated and transferred to the military department under a director general (a rank created in 1889).
The Central Public Works Department (CPWD, Hindi: केंद्रीय लोक निर्माण विभाग) is a department under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs of India and is in charge of public sector works. It serves as the builder, developer and manager of Central government properties.
Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district was formed from the Hoshiarpur and Jalandhar districts of Punjab on 7 November 1995, as the sixteenth district of Punjab State named from the headquarters town of Nawanshahr. Nawanshahr was founded by the migrants from Rahon near the Sutlej River as Rahon was in danger of being flooded. They named it ...
During the 1962 war effort, Pratap Singh Kairon, who opposed the Punjabi Suba from the beginning, had undertaken efforts to raise a rural volunteer force called the Punjab Raksha Dal ("Punjab Protection Army") for further reinforcement and manpower, and enlisted an American firm towards the construction of an air suspension factory in Punjab.
Chopra with his brother B. R. Chopra at an event in 2007. Chopra was born on 27 September 1932 in Lahore, Punjab Province, British India into a Punjabi Hindu Khatri family. [8] [9] [10] His father was an accountant in the PWD division of the British Punjab administration.
Panjab University Campus A road in Panjab University during spring.. The university's chequerboard layout was devised by Swiss-French Architect Pierre Jeanneret. [18] The main campus at Chandigarh is spread over 550 acres in Sectors 14 and 25, the teaching area is in the north-east, with the Central Library, Fine Arts Museum, and three-winged structure of the Gandhi Bhawan forming its core ...
Punjab Engineering College (Deemed to be University) (abbreviated PEC or PEC Chandigarh) is a public research & technical institution in Chandigarh. It was founded in 1921 in Lahore, established in Chandigarh in 1953, and focuses on the field of applied sciences, particularly engineering and technology.