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Powers & duties of its officers & employees.

Joint Secretary (AMRUT), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is the ex-officio Chairman of TCPO. All the Policy matters are referred to the Chairman for his consideration/ decision. 

Chief Planner is the Head of the Department who is delegated with all the powers of the Head of the Department of a subordinate office under ‘Financial Rules’. The Chief Planner approves all the technical matters, reports, studies, projects; etc., dealt with by the Organization. 

Additional Chief Planner is next to the Chief Planner. He is overall in-charge of a few divisions in TCPO and also functions as head of the office. 

Town and Country Planner the next in the hierarchy; are the heads of the divisions. The Divisional Head is responsible to supervise, conduct, formulate and monitor the technical work assigned to the respective division. The organization is structured into seven divisions supported by the Administration and OL Division. 

Associate Town & Country Planners / Associate Architect, next in the hierarchy, are the middle-level officers in the Organization. They are in-charge of various technical projects, studies, monitoring work assigned to the concerned division. They submit all such work to the divisional head for consideration, who in turn forwards the same to the Additional Chief Planner for his consideration and approval. 

Assistant Town & Country Planners / Research Officers are the lower rung officers attached with various divisions depending upon the workload. They scrutinize, formulate, assess, appraise and workout various studies and planning projects including monitoring of schemes. They submit their work to the next senior officer or divisional head, as the case may be for his perusal, guidance, and consideration. 

Planning Officer / Research Assistants / Investigators are the supporting staff at the subordinate level, attached with various divisions depending upon nature and quantum of work. They are responsible for the collection, compilation and scrutiny of information, conducting surveys, preparation of drawings and maps and provide all other necessary support to the supervisory officers and divisional head. 

Administrative Officer is the in-charge of the Administration Division supported by Office Superintendents,  Senior Secretariate Assistants and Junior Secretariate Assistants.

Senior P.A. Group-B Gazetted Officer and senior-most in the cadre of stenographers is attached to the Chief Planner. Sr. P.A. is responsible for maintaining the engagement diary and provides other secretarial assistance to the Chief Planner who is a Joint Secretary level officer. 

Assistant Director (OL), a Group-A Gazetted Officer is in-charge of Hindi Division in the Organization. He is responsible for matters related to the promotion of Hindi. 

Office Superintendent is the in-charge of one section of the Administration and provides support to the Administrative Officer in disposing off assigned administrative matters. 

Stenographers Grade I , and II are attached to various Divisions depending upon workload; provide stenographic, computer and secretarial assistance to the supervisory officers and the divisional head. 

Junior Translator is responsible to translate all the technical matters from English to Hindi and provide support to the AD (OL) and other senior officers in all such matters.

Documentation Assistant is the in-charge of office Library administration and managament, purchase of government and non-government publications, journals, magazines, news papers etc and accesssioning, classificatio and cataloguing of documents received in teh Library. He, also provides reference, referral and resource sharing services to the officers/offiicals of TCPO.

Senior Secretariat Assistant and Junior Secretariat Assistant at the lower administrative hierarchy are the supporting staff to the  Office Superintendent and Administrative Officer. They initiate the administrative files and are responsible for maintaining the records and upkeep of files. 

Multi-Tasking staff is posted in various divisions of the Organization to provide support in the sorting of records, movement of files and diary and dispatch work. 

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