Property_Manu - Final - The New India Assurance Co. Ltd.

The New India Assurance Co.Ltd.Further, maintenance of premises also means:-(1) Ensuring physical condition of the premises is good enough to occupy and use atall times by all type of users.(2) Ensuring utilization of such premises only by authorized persons.(3) Ensuring utilization of the premises by authorized persons for authorized purposeonly.(4) Ensuring that no premises is misused or unauthorisedly used.The Department should initiate action through concerned Departments for arresting the misuseof premises and eviction of unauthorized users.The Department can make payment of bills of contractors for execution of various works only oncertification by the Department. The certification of works could be by the CM/M/DM/AM/AO/Sr.Asst./ Asst, depending upon the nature and quantum of work.In case of LIC, works are certified by Executive Engineer (AM), Asst. Executive Engineer (AO),Asst. Engineer (AAO), Building Inspector (Sr. Asst.) and all are qualified engineers.In case of the company, the works are certified by CM/M/DM/AM/AO/Sr.Asst./Assistant and theyneed not be qualified technical persons. Further, the division of civil, electrical and mechanicalalso does not appear. The Estate Department would be responsible for certification of works ofall types of works.Wherever, the Department is having a technical expert, it becomes easy for certifying the payment.However, the Department without any technical experts, in any field, finds it very much difficult tocertify the works.As such, on posting non-technical persons to the Department, efforts should be made to providethem adequate, essential, basic knowledge in all the disciplines. It is suggested that at least 2weeks training programme for Assistant /Sr.Assts and 4 weeks training programme for officersshould be provided.The training programme could be in-house or at the identified polytechnic or engineering colleges.The staff of the Department should become conversant with day-to-day functions to enable theDepartment to effect payment to the contractors on proper certification.156 MANUAL ON ESTATE & ESTABLISHMENT