CONTENTS - Central Public Works Department

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prescribed by this Directorate in the earlier guidelines issued on 24.6.99) of adding a clause in
the Rent reasonableness Certificate that the rent as certified shall hold good for 3/5 years or
so, is not correct and shall be stopped forthwith.
(v) The rent shall be expressed in terms of per unit built up area or carpet area Monthly rent
may also be shown.
6. Re-assessment of rent of the existing leased building/space shall be treated as fresh assessment
and shall be done according to the same method as discussed in the preceding paras. Necessity
for re-assessment/ revision of rent, whether during the currency of the Lease Agreement or after
its expiry shall however be examined and decided by the Hiring Department with due regard to the
terms and conditions of existing lease agreement and any other relevant instructions issued by
the competent authority. The effective date of revision of rent shall be the date of receipt of the
request of the owner or the date from which revision is due after expiry of existing lease agreement,
whichever is later.
7. It shall be for the Hiring Department to see if the rent as assessed/reassessed by the Hiring
Committee is to be restricted to any particular limit in view of the terms and conditions of existing
lease agreement or due to any other relevant instructions issued by competent authority to this
effect.
8. As prescribed in Para 3(x)(a), the Municipal Tax component as accounted for in the rent shall be
clearly indicated in the Rent Reasonableness Certificate. In view of the same, no request shall be
entertained by Hiring Committee for re-assessment of rent on account of subsequent increase or
decease in municipal tax, if any. It shall accordingly be for the hiring department to settle it right in
the beginning by a mutual agreement with the owner as to how such subsequent increase or
decease in municipal tax, if any, shall be dealt with.
9. The rent assessment shall be done by a Hiring Committee with the composition as given below
and the jurisdiction of the Committee for a particular City/Town shall also include satellite and twin
cities/towns, if any, as illustrated in the sub-Para (iv) below.
(i) DELHI: - The committee shall be headed by EE (LF), office of CE(NDZ)I, CPWD, Nirman
Bhawan with an Assistant Director of Estate from Directorate of Estate and AFA(E), Finance
Division, Ministry of Urban Development, Nirman Bhawan as members and certificate of
reasonable rent shall accordingly be issued by EE (LF).
(ii) Other Cities/Towns where there is a Civil Circle:- the committee shall be headed by the
Superintending Engineer, with the local Assistant Estate Manager of the Directorate of Estate
and an Executive Engineer (Civil) co-opted by the Superintending Engineer as members and
Certificate of reasonable rent shall accordingly be issued by the Superintending Engineer.
(a) In case there is no officer of the Directorate of Estate at the station, the Executive Engineer/
Assistant Engineer doing the estate function shall be co-opted as a member. In case,
there is no such estate function involved, the Superintending Engineer shall co-opt an
Executive Engineer or Assistant Engineer as the second member.
(b) In case there are more than one Civil Circle at the same station, the concerned Chief
Engineer shall nominate one of the Superintending Engineer to head the committee.
(iii) All other areas: - The Hiring Committee shall be headed by a Executive Engineer (Civil Division)
under whose jurisdiction the building proposed to be hired stands. He will co-opt one Assistant
Engineer (Civil) and one Junior Engineer(Civil) in the committee. If there are more than one
Civil Division at the same station, the Superintending Engineer concerned shall nominate one
of the Executive Engineers to head the Committee.
(iv) As already mentioned above regarding jurisdiction of a Hiring Committee in the matter of satellite
and twin cities/towns, the jurisdiction of Hiring Committee for Delhi shall include Ghaziabad,
NOIDA, Greater NOIDA, Faridabad, Gurgaon. Similarly, Jurisdiction of Hiring Committee for
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