APPENDIX-II

AUTHORITIES EMPOWERED TO ENTER INTO CONTRACT

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XVIII. In the case of the Ministry of Railways:-

1.All instruments relating to purchase, hire or supply and conveyance of materials, stores, sleepers including wooden sleepers and timber of all description, machinery, plant, telephone lines and connection, coal and all agreements for fire fighting and agreements relating to reimbursement of sales tax in respect of orders for the purchase of stores for the Indian Railways : etc; by the Senior Deputy General Managers, Deputy General-Managers, Assistant General Managers, Assistant Deputy General Managers, Secretaries to General Managers, Engineers-in-Chief, Additional Engineers -in-Chief, Chief Engineers, Deputy Chief Engineers, Regional Engineers, Chief Operating Superintendents, Chief Commercial Superintendents, Regional Traffic Superintendents, Divisional District Commercial Superintendent, Divisional Superintendents, Superintendents, Superintendents of Works, Executive Engineers, Divisional/District Engineers, Chief Medical Officers, Personal Assistant to the Chief Medical Officer, Station Executive Officers, Kharagpur Colliery Superintendents, Chief Electrical Engineers, Superintendents Mechanical Workshop, Deputy Chief Electrical Engineers, Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineers, Regional Mechanical Engineers, Bridge Engineers, Chief Signal & Telecommunication Engineers, Track Supply Officers, Controller of Stores, Deputy Controller of Stores, Superintendent(Stores), District Controller of Stores, Senior Stores Officers, Assistant Controller of Stores, Controllers of Grain Shop, Superintendents Catering, Town Engineers, Sleeper Control Officers, Chief Mining Adviser, Works Manager, Tata-Nagar, Works Manager, Engineering Workshops, Southern Railway at Arkonam, Chief Administrative Officers, Secretary, Rates Tribunal, Chairman, Railway Service Commission, Deputy Chief Signalling & Telecommunication Engineers, Superintendents, Printing and Stationery, the Principal, Indian Institute of Railways Signal & Engineering & Telecommunications, the Principal, Indian Railways School of Advanced permanent way Engineering, Director General, Deputy Director General, Directors, Additional Directors, Joint Directors, Deputy Directors, Assistant Directors, Assistant Controller of Stores, Town Engineer, Assistant Engineer in the R.D.S.O., Director, Joint Director, Deputy Director and Section Officer in the Purchase Section in the Railway Board. In the case of Metropolitan Transport Projects (Railways), General Manager, Chief Administrative Officer, Deputy General Manager, District Medical Officer, Chief Engineer, Additional Chief Engineer, Chief Signal Telecom. Engineer, Chief Electrical Engineer, Controller of Stores, Additional Controller of Stores, Engineers-in-Chief, Deputy Chief Signal & Telecom. Engineer , Deputy Chief Electrical Engineer, Deputy Chief Engineer, Executive Engineer, Additional General Manager, Additional Chief Engineers, Chief Track Engineers, Chief Bridge Engineers, Senior Divisional Engineers, Additional Chief Operating Superintendents, Chief Safety Superintendents, Senior Divisional Operating Superintendents, Senior Transportation Officers, Deputy Chief Operating Superintendents, Senior Commercial Officers, Senior Divisional Commercial Superintendents, Chief Marketing Superintendents, Additional Chief Medical Officers, Medical Superintendents, Additional Chief Electrical Engineers, Senior Divisional Electrical Engineers, Senior Electrical Engineers, Divisional Railway Managers, Additional Divisional Railway Managers, Chief Mechanical Engineers, Chief Workshop Engineers, Additional Chief Mechanical Engineers, Senior Mechanical Engineers, Senior Divisional Mechanical Engineers, Chief Telecommunication Engineers, Additional Chief Signal & Telecommunication Engineers, Senior Signal Telecommunication Engineers, Senior Divisional Signal & Telecommunication Engineers, Divisional Signal & Telecommunication Engineers, Chief Material Managers, Additional Controller of Stores, Chief Administrative Officers, Superintendent Printing & Stationery, Chief Passenger Transport Superintendent, Chief Transport Planning Superintendent, Chief Freight Transport Superintendent, Chief Planning & Design Engineers, Additional Chief Engineer/Divisions, Chief Rolling Stock Engineer, Chief Motive Power Engineer, Chief Electrical Services Engineer, Chief Electrical Project Engineer, Chief Electrical Distribution Engineer.

In the case of the Wheel and Axle Project, Bangalore, Officer on Special Duty (Project) Chief Project Officer, Controller of Stores, Additional Controller of Stores, Deputy Chief Engineer, Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer, Deputy Chief Electrical Engineer, Senior Stores Officer, District Controller of Stores, Assistant Controller of Stores, Assistant Stores Officer and Executive Engineer.

2. All instruments relating to the execution of works of all kinds connected with railways, open or under construction; by General Managers, Senior Deputy General Managers, Deputy General Managers, Assistant General Managers, Assistant Deputy General Managers, Secretaries to General Managers, Engineers-in-Chief, Additional Engineers-in-Chief, Engineer-in-charge (Construction), Chief Engineers, Additional Chief Engineers, Senior Divisional Engineers Deputy Chief Engineers, Regional Engineers, Regional Superintendents, Chief Commercial Superintendents, Deputy Chief Commercial Superintendents, District Divisional Commercial Superintendents, Division Superintendents, Superintendents of Works, Executive Engineers, Divisional/District Engineers, Assistant Engineer, Colliery Superintendents, Chief Electrical Engineers, Divisional Superintending Engineers, Deputy Chief Electrical Engineer, Chief Mechanical Engineers, Superintendent (Mechanical Workshop), Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineers, District Divisional Mechanical Engineers, Regional Mechanical Engineers, Bridge Engineers, Chief Signal & Telecommunication Engineers, Deputy Signal And Telecommunication Engineers, Track Supply Officers, Controller of Stores, Deputy Controller of Stores, Superintendent (Stores), District Controller of Stores, Senior Stores Officer, Town Engineers, Chief Mining Engineer with the Railways Board, Works Managers Tata-Nagar, Chief Administrative Officer, Deputy General Manager, Director General, Deputy Director General, Directors, Additional Directors, Joint Directors, Deputy Directors, Assistant Directors, Assistant Controller of Stores, Town Engineer and Assistant Engineer in the R.D.S.O. In the case of Metropolitan Transport Projects (Railways), General Manager, Chief Administrative Officer, Deputy General Manager, District ' Medical Officer, Chief Engineer, Additional Chief Engineers, Chief Signal Telecom. Engineer, Chief Electrical Engineer, Controller of Stores, Additional Controller of Stores, Engineers-in-Chief, Deputy Chief Signal and Telecom. Engineer, Deputy Chief Electrical Engineer, Deputy Chief Engineer, Executive Engineers, Additional General Managers, Divisional Railway Managers, Additional Divisional Railway Managers, Chief Track Engineers, Chief Bridge Engineers, Additional Chief Engineers, Additional Chief Commercial Superintendents, Senior Commercial Officer, Senior Divisional Commercial Superintendents, Senior Divisional Engineers, Additional Chief Electrical Engineers, Additional Chief Mechanical Engineers, Chief Workshop Engineers, Senior Mechanical Engineers, Senior Divisional Mechanical Engineers, Chief Telecommunication Engineers, Additional Chief Signal & Telecommunication Engineers, Deputy Chief Signal & Telecommunication Engineers, Senior Divisional Signal & Telecommunication Engineers, Chief Material Managers, Additional Controller of Stores, Chief Administrative Officers, COFMOW, Chief Planning & Design Engineer, Additional Chief Engineer/Divisions, Chief Rolling Stock Engineer, Chief Motive Power Engineer, Chief Electrical Services Engineer, Chief Electrical Project Engineer, Chief Electrical Distribution Engineer. In the case of the Wheel and Axle Project, Bangalore, Officer on Special Duty (Project), Chief Project Officer, Controller of Stores, Additional Controller of Stores, Deputy Chief Engineer, Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer, Deputy Chief Electrical Engineer, Senior Stores Officer, District Controller of Stores, Assistants Controller of Stores, Assistants Stores Officer and Executive Engineer.

3. Security Bonds for the due performance and completion of works and general indemnity notes, indemnity bonds and guarantee bonds of all kinds other than mentioned above, by General

Managers, Senior Deputy General Managers, Deputy General Managers, Secretaries to General

Managers, Engineers-in -Chief, Additional Engineers-in-Chief, Chief Engineers, Deputy Chief

Engineers, Regional Engineers, Chief Commercial Superintendents, Deputy Chief Commercial

Superintendents, Regional Traffic Superintendents, District/Divisional Commercial Superintendents, Superintendents of Works, Executive Engineers, Divisional/District Engineers, Colliery Superintendents, Chief Electrical Engineers, Superintendents Mechanical (Workshop), Deputy Chief Electrical Engineers, Chief Mechanical Engineers, Regional Mechanical Engineers, District/Divisional Mechanical Engineers, Works Managers, Bridge Engineers, Chief Signal and Telecommunication Engineers, Track Supply Officers, Controllers of Stores, Deputy Controllers of Stores, Senior Stores Officers, Superintendents (Stores" District Controllers of Stores, Senior Stores Officer or Town Engineers or the Chief Mining Engineer with the Railway Board or the Chief Administrative Officers, Deputy General Managers, Deputy Chief Signalling and Telecommunication Engineer, Senior Accounts Officers, Junior Accounts Officers or Assistant Accounts Officers, Director General, Deputy Director General, Directors, Additional Directors, Joint Directors, Deputy Director of Assistant Directors of Assistant Controller of Stores, Town Engineer of Assistant Engineer in the R.D.S.O. In the case of Metropolitan Transport Projects (Railways), General Manager, Chief Administrative Officer, Deputy General Manager, District medical Officer, Chief Engineer, Additional Chief Engineer, Chief Signal Telecom. -Engineer, Chief Electrical Engineer, Controller of Stores, Additional Controller of Stores, Engineers-in-Chief, Deputy Chief Signal & Telecom. Engineer, Deputy Chief Electrical Engineer, Deputy Chief Engineer, Executive Engineer, Additional General Managers, Divisional Railway Managers, Additional Divisional Railway Managers, Additional Chief Engineers, Chief Track Engineers, Chief Bridge Engineers, Senior Divisional Engineers, Additional Chief Commercial Superintendents, Chief Claim Officers, Senior Commercial Officers, Senior Divisional Commercial Superintendents, Senior Divisional Electrical Engineers, Additional Chief Electrical Engineers, Chief Workshop Engineers, Additional Chief Mechanical Engineers, Senior Divisional Mechanical Engineers, Senior Mechanical Engineers, Chief Telecommunication Engineers, Additional Chief Signal & Telecommunication Engineers, Chief Material Managers, Additional Controller of Stores Chief Administrative Officer, COFMO, Chief Planning & Design Engineer, Additional Chief Engineer/Divisions, Chief Rolling Stock Engineer, Chief Motive Power Engineer, Chief Electrical Services Engineers, Chief Electrical Project Engineers, Chief Electrical Distribution Engineer. In the case of the Wheel and Axle

Project, Banglore, Officer on Special Duty (Project), Chief Project Officer, Controller of Stores, Additional Controller of Stores, Deputy Chief Engineer, Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer, Deputy Chief Electrical Engineer, Senior Officer, District Controller of Stores, Assistant Controller of Stores, Assistant Stores Officer and Executive Engineer.

4. Instruments relating to contracts for the transport of passengers, goods and coaching traffic by transport agents, for the sale of tickets by tourists or other agents authorised by Railways, or for working ferries and ferry steamers in connection with the working of Railway and/or for the amenities of the Railways staff and for supply of labour other than labour required in connection with conservancy services and for reservation of accommodation in Railways Hotels by recognised tourist travel agents and/or contracts connected with the loading and unloading, stacking and delivery of goods and parcels and of Railway Stores and material including loco coal or for other matters necessary for or incidental to Railway working, by General Managers, Senior Deputy General Managers, Deputy General Managers, Chief Security Officers, Chief Engineers, Engineer-in-Chief, Dy. Chief Engineers, Regional Engineers, Bridge Engineers, Chief Signal and Telecommunication Engineers, Chief Operating Superintendents Deputy Chief Operating Superintendents, Chief CommerciaI Superintendents, Deputy Chief Commercial Superintendents, Marketing and Sales Superintendent, Regional Traffic Superintendents, Divisional/District Commercial and Traffic Superintendents, Chief Mechanical Engineers, Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineers, District/Divisional Mechanical Engineers, Chief Electrical Engineers, Deputy Chief Electrical Engineers, Track Supply Officers, Controller of Stores, Additional Controller of Stores, Deputy Controller of Stores, Superintendent (Stores), District Controllers of Stores, Colliery Superintendents, Divisional Operating Superintendents, Regional/Divisional Superintendents, Town Engineers, the Chief Mining Engineer with the Railway Board, the Chief Administrative Officers, Divisional Engineer or the Superintendent Catering, Additional General Managers, Divisional Railway Managers, Additional Divisional Railway Managers, Chief Track Engineers, Chief Bridge Engineers, Additional Chief Engineers, Senior Divisional Engineers, Chief Telecommunication Engineers, Additional Chief Signal & Telecommunication Engineer, Additional Chief Operating Superintendents, Additional Chief Commercial Superintendents, Traffic Superintendents, Senior Commercial Officers, Chief Workshop Engineers, Additional Chief Mechanical Engineers, Senior Divisional Mechanical Engineers, Additional Chief Electrical Engineers, Senior Divisional Electrical Engineers, Chief Material Managers, Senior Stores Officers, Chief Administrative Officers, COFMOW, Chief Planning & Design Engineer, Additional Chief Engineer/Divisions, Chief Rolling Stock Engineers, Chief Motive Power Engineers, Chief Electrical Services Engineers, Chief Electrical Project Engineers, Chief Electrical Distribution Engineers. In the case of the Wheel and Axle Project, Bangalore, Officer on Special Duty (Project), Chief Project Officer, Controller of Stores, Additional Controller of Stores, Deputy Chief Engineer, Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer, Deputy Chief Electrical Engineer, Senior Stores Officer, District Controller of Stores, Assistant Controller of Stores, Assistant Stores Officer and Executive Engineer.

5. Instruments connected with the collection of farming of tools at bridges or ferries or other means of communication provided by the Railway; by General Managers, Senior Deputy General Managers, Deputy General Managers, Assistant General Managers, Engineer-in-Chief, Chief Engineers, Regional Engineers, Bridge Engineers, Chief Signal and Telecommunication Engineers, Chief CommerciaI Superintendents, Deputy Chief Commercial Superintendents. Divisional/ District Commercial Superintendents, Divisional/District Commercial Superintendents, Regional Traffic Superintendents, Divisional Superintendents, Superintendents of Works, Executive Engineers, Colliery Superintendents, District Engineers or Divisional Engineers of Indian Railway and Chief Administrative Officers, Additional General Manager, Divisional Railway Managers, Additional Divisional Railway Managers, Chief Track Engineers, Chief Bridge Engineers, Additional Chief Engineers, Senior Divisional Engineers, Chief Telecommunication Engineers, Additional Chief Signal and Telecommunication Engineers, Additional Chief Mechanical Engineers, Additional Chief Commercial Superintendents, Senior Divisional Commercial Superintendents, Senior Commercial Officers, Chief Planning & Design Engineers, Additional Chief Engineer/Divisions.

6.Lease of license of house, land and other immovable property, vehicle stand and coin

provided that the rent or licence fees reserved does not exceed RS. 5000/- per month (leases of small branch lines of Railways are excluded from this item); by General Managers, Senior Deputy General Managers, Assistant General Managers, Assistant Deputy General Managers etc. Secretaries to General Managers, Engineer-in Managers, Deputy -Chief, Chief Engineers, Deputy Chief Engineers, Regional Engineers, Chief Commercial Superintendents, Divisional/District Commercial Superintendents, District Traffic Superintendents and Superintendents of Works, Executive Engineers, Divisional Engineers, District Engineers, Colliery Superintendents, Coal Manager, Eastern Railway, Chief Mechanical Engineer, Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer or Town Engineers of Indian Railway, the Chief Mining Engineer with Railway Board, the President Colony Committee, Golden Rock, the Station Executive Officer, Kharagpur, the Chief Administrative Officers, Secretary Railway Rates Tribunal, Chief Personal Officer, Deputy Chief Personal Officer, Superintendent Delhi Area, Superintendent Kanpur Area, Director General, Deputy Director General, Directors, Additional Directors, joint Directors, Assistant Directors, Oscillograph Car Officers, Dynameter Car Officers, Town Engineer, and Assistant Engineer in the R.D.S.O. In the case of the Wheel and Axle Project, Banglore, Officer on Special Duty(Project), Chief Project Officer, Controller of Stores, Additional Controller of Stores, Deputy Chief Engineer, Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer, Deputy Chief Electrical Engineer, Additional Chief Commercial Superiendents, Senior Divisional Commercial Superiendents, Senior Commercial Officers, Additional Chief Operating Superiendents, Additional Chief Mechanical Engineer, Additional Chief Personal Officer, Chief Public Relation Officer, Chief Transport Planning Superintendents, Chief Passenger Transport Superintendents, Chief Freight Transport Superintendents. In the case of Wheel and Axle Project, Banglore, Officer on Special Duty (Project), Chief Project Officer, Controller Of Stores, Additional Controller of Stores, Deputy Chief Engineer, Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer, Deputy Chief Electrical Engineer, Senior Stores Officers, District Controller of Stores, Assistant Controller of Stores, Assistant Stores Officer and Executive Engineer.

7. Agreements or leases or licences with outsider for grazing cattle for the sale of grass, trees or other products on Railway land, for fishing in Railway tanks, for cultivation of water-nuts or for irrigation and instruments relating to the sale of grass, trees, or other products on Railway land; by General Managers, Senior Deputy General Managers, Deputy General Managers, Secretaries to General Managers, Engineer-in Chief, Chief Engineer, Additional Chief Engineers, Senior Divisional Engineers, Deputy Chief Engineers, District Engineers, Chief Commercial Superintendents, Superintendents of Works, Superintendents of Way and Works, Executive Engineers, Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineers, Colliery Superintendents, Coal Managers, Eastern Railway, Divisional Engineers, Divisional Superintending Engineers, Town Engineers of Indian Railways, Chief Mining Engineers, With the Railway Board, Station Executive Officers, Kharagpur, Secretary Rates Tribunal, Principal, the Institute of Railway Signal Engineering and Telecommunication, Director General, Deputy Director General, Directors, Additional Directors, Joint Directors, Deputy Directors, Assistant Directors, Town Engineer, and Assistant Engineer in the R.D.S.O. of Chief Administrative Officer, Additional Chief Commercial Superintendents, Senior Divisional Commercial Superintendents, Additional Chief Mechanical Engineers, Chief Administrative Officer, COFMOW.

8. Agreement or leases or licences with outsider for erecting telegraph or telephone posts on Railway land, for laying pipe lines or for building wharves, or for crossing Railway land and track by means of aerial rope way or over head transmission lines or underground cables, or for stocking stones coal, firewood, etc. on Railway land or for erecting bulk oil depot etc. in connection with the working of traffic carried on Railway; by General Managers, Senior Deputy General Managers, Deputy General Managers, Assistant General Managers, Assistant Deputy General Managers, Secretaries to General Managers, Engineers-in-Chief, Additional Engineers-in-Chief, Chief Engineers, Additional Chief Engineers, Senior Divisional Engineers, Deputy Chief Engineers, Regional Engineers, Deputy Chief Commercial Superintendents, Divisional/District Commercial Superintendents, Chief Operating Superintendents, Goods Superintendents, Divisional Traffic Superintendent, Divisional Superintendents, District Engineers, Colliery Superintendents,