The Technical Services Wing was established in 1998 as part of an interim re-organisation of the RHD. The main aim of the restructuring was to focus the service providers within the RHD into a single Wing that would provide in-house services where possible and manage outsourcing of such services when resources were inadequate to meet demand. Under the re-organisation of 2000 it was decided to remove Training and Bridge Design functions from Technical Services.

The objective of the office of the Additional Chief Engineer is:

To manage all operations in the Technical Services Wing in order to ensure that the Strategy for the Wing and the Plans of Each Circle within the Wing are fully achieved.

(See the Strategy of the Planning and Maintenance Wing).

The organisation of the Office of the Additional Chief Engineer consists of the ACE, a staff officer of SDE level and office support staff. The total number of personnel is 14 as shown on the attached sheet.

(See the Strategy of the Technical Services Wing).

The budget for the office of the Additional Chief Engineer is shown on the attached table. The budget table shows both the annual operation and maintenance costs and the capital costs of purchasing new and replacing old equipment. As not all equipment will be purchased or replaced immediately the capital cost has been annualised depending on the average life of the various items of equipment. The costs shown exclude the cost of personnel who are paid for from other sources.

On this basis the annual recurring cost for the Office of the Additional Chef Engineer is Taka 6.78 lacs and the capital costs on an annualised basis is Taka 8.25 lacs. This gives a total cost of Taka 15.03 lacs per annum.

The Office of the Additional Chief Engineer requires resources for Head Quarters operations and to enable the ACE to make periodic field inspection visits.

The resources required are shown in the table below: