Comm to decide on engg wings in non-engg depts: Tuki

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki today said the state government has constituted a committee headed by Agriculture and Horticulture minister Chona Mein to recommend whether to create engineering wings in non-engineering departments or to create a separate infrastructure development department.
Responding to a supplementary raised in the Assembly during Question Hour by Congress member Wangki Lowang, Tuki said three non-engineering departments including Sports and Youth Affairs, Education and Tourism have created their own engineering wings on the basis of workload of civil works as they were getting huge work under centrally sponsored and state plan schemes.
"Earlier, PWD executed such schemes as deposit works and used to take the works as secondary causing delay for, which engineering wings are created," the Chief Minister said.

Responding to BJP member Tage Taki's supplementary on proposal for modalities for such a department (infrastructure development), Tuki said the committee would submit its report during the current session of the Assembly.
Speaker Nabam Rebia, however, ruled not to create more departments where promotion became the main objective and suggested restriction on creation of departments.