IEP Chandigarh, January 10
From now, Sarpanch, Chairman, Panchayat Samiti and Zilla Parishad will grant administrative approvals of all development projects from their own funds as well as grant in aid. Earlier all such files used to come to the government level for final approval. While officers upto the rank of Junior Engineer, SDO, XEN, Superintending Engineer and Chief Engineer have been designated as the competent authority to grant technical approvals for all such development works.Sharing more information in this regard, an official spokesperson said that Junior Engineer can give technical sanction for the works upto Rs 2 lakh, SDO can approve works upto Rs 25 lakh, XEN can approve works upto Rs 1 crore, Superintending Engineer can approve works upto 2.5 crore and Chief Engineer can give approvals for works exceeding Rs 2.5 crore.