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P&T Building Works Group– A Service is an organized Group-A service of Department of Telecom comprising of three wings– Civil, Electrical and Architecture.

Recruitment
The recruitment to the cadre is done through the Indian Engineering Services exam.The selection exam is conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) of India. The UPSC is responsible for recruiting middle and top-level bureaucrats for the Government of India. After the bifurcation of the P&T Department and creation of Department of Telecom (DOT) & Department of Posts (DOP) in 1985, the posts already available for the works related to the Department of Post were transferred to its establishment. However, cadre management of the unified cadre continued to remain with the Department of Telecom. The officers recruited to this service are deployed in the Department of Telecom and in the Department of Posts under the Ministry of Communications.

Role and function
The foundation for the P&T Building Works Service was laid in the sixties (1963) to take up the entire responsibility of creation, development and maintenance of Civil infrastructure for Telecom and Postal Department of the Government of India. In the year 2000, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a Public Sector Undertaking, was created by carving out the telecom operational work of the Department of Telecom, vide DOT OM No. 2-29/2000-Restg dated 30th September 2000. Thereafter the main function remained with the DoT are- the functions of upkeep of assets and infrastructure of DOT, Policy formulation, licensing, wireless spectrum management, administrative control of PSUs, Standardization and validation of equipments and infrastructure, Research and Development. However, there is no change in the functional and operation requirement of Department of Post. As of 31 March 2015, the Indian Postal Service had 154,939 post offices, of which 139,222 (89.86%) were in rural areas and 15,826 (10.14%) in urban areas. It had 25,560 departmental Post Offices and 129,379 Gramin Dak Sevak, Branch Post Offices. The Civil Engineering department of Indian Post and Department of Telecommunication is managed by P&T BWS cadre. These officers are responsible for construction and maintenance of all fixed assets of Indian Post, i.e. Administrative buildings,Post offices, IPPB, quarters, Roads, Water supply,land etc. Recruitment to service is done on the basis of an all India "Engineering Services" examination conducted by UPSC every year in Jan. Number of new recruits varies over year. Presently, intake is about 6(3 from Civil engineering and 3 from Electrical engineering) probationers per year.

An aspirant is not necessarily a civil Engineering graduate indeed he need to appear for Civil Engineering stream in Engineering services exam and get qualified.

Training
After recruitment through Combined Engineering Services Examination, the officers undergo a two years course at National Telecommunication Institute for Policy Research Innovation and Training(www.ntiprit.gov.in) at Ghaziabad. Department of Telecommunication has set up this new training centre named as "National Telecommunicatios Institute for Policy Research, Innovation and Training" at Ghaziabad for its officers belonging to technical cadre i.e. ITS and P&T BWS. Probationer of P&T BWS is given 24 months' intensive training in various Telecom and Postal establishments under the guidance of National Telecom Institute for Policy Research Innovation and Training (NTIPRIT), Ghaziabad. A young probationer of P&T BWS is imparted 10 months of rigorous and multi-dimensional training along with probationers of Indian Telecommunication Services (ITS) and is posted as Assistant Executive Engineer (AEE). They can rise up to Senior Deputy Director General (BW), Deputy Secretary to Govt of India. In normal course, all the P&T BWS officers rise up to minimum level of Deputy Director General or Chief Engineer which is equivalent to Joint Secretary to the Govt. of India.

Organisation
As in the other Central Services, the officers are liable to be transferred and posted in anywhere in India.There are 99 engineers in P&T BWS out of which 34 officers are posted in Department of Posts and 65 officers are posted in Department of Telecommunication. After successful training of 24 months (38 week classroom + 8 week All India Visits, Visit of President house and Dignitaries + 58 week field attachment training), officers of this cadre is posted as Assistant Executive engineer(AEE, JTS) in Sub-Division or in Headquarter of Ministry of Communication.They head the sub-division for two years and after that they got promoted to Executive engineer (STS) to head Divisional office. In Department of Posts, Sub-Divisional offices is headed by Assistant engineer(AE). Junior engineers are recruited through SSC (Staff Selection Commission) and after about 10-12 years of experience they get promoted as Assistant engineer.Sub-Divisional in-charge reports to Divisional offices, which are headed by Executive engineer(EE). Divisional offices is generally situated in capital cities of the state and under one Division there are around 4-5 Sub-Divisions. Divisional in- charge report to circle officer, which is headed by Superintending engineer(SE).In general one Superintending engineer looks after 3-4 divisions.Superintending engineer(SE) in turns report to the Chief engineer(works), who is finally looks after all the civil works of Postal department throughout India. Chief engineer (CE) headquarter(HQ) looks Administrative and Posting related matters of P&T BWS officers in Postal department. In Department of Telecom P&T BWS services officers are Posted as Assistant Executive engineer(AEE)(JTS) and after 2 years of services they get promoted to Executive engineer (STS). On completion of 13 years of services they get promoted to Director (Civil/Electrical/ Architect)(JAG).After 4 years of regular services in Director rank they further promoted to Deputy Director General ( Equivalent to Joint Secretary of GOI)(SAG). Currently there is One Post of Sr. Deputy Director General (Sr.DDG, BW)(HAG), who heads the Building works (BW) Services and report to the Member(S) Telecom Commission. This post is filled by Senior most CE/DDG, who has served for 3 regular years in SAG.

Cadre controlling authority
Member (Services), Telecom Commission of India is cadre controlling authority of P&T BWS, Group A. Member(Services)is ex officio Secretary to Government of India. R K Mishra is currently working as Member(Services), Department of Telecom, Government of India