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Water Development Board
Water Development Board
1)“Engineer” means Executive Engineer of BWDB.(2)"Revetment" and "Slope Protection" are layered systems placed on a sloping or horizontal surface as protection against hydraulic forces and scouring. (3)"Geo-textile" is a synthetic fabric (woven, non-woven, needle punched) applied as a filter or used in tailored geo-textile systems (bags, containers, mattresses, etc.) (4)"Top Soil" is the top layer of soil containing a lighter proportion of organic material. (5)"Suitable material" comprises all material obtained from excavation within the site or from borrow pits which is approved by Engineer accepted for use in the work. (6)"Unsuitable material" is any material other than suitable material and shall comprise high organic content; peat, stamp, clay of liquid limit exceeding 90%, plasticity index exceeding 65%. (7)"Soft" material shall mean all material, whether suitable or unsuitable, but other than that defined as rock. (8)"Subsoil" is naturally deposited or filled and compacted soil material on which astructure such as building, bridge, regulator, embankment, revetment, bed protection or a falling apron etc. is constructed. (9)“Flood season” may bedefined as a period between 15 June to15 October, characterized by high water levels and strong currents, accompanied by fast morphological changes. (10)“CC block” is a hard form of definite proportion of mixture of sand, cement and coarse aggregate to a desired strength and size after 28 days of curing. (11)“Placing” is defined as controlled lying of concrete blocks at the bank slope from Design Low Water level (or as directed) upward in brick bond manner over filter layers for example sand, khoaand geo-textile. (12)“Power driven flat top country boat/Pontoon” is floating equipment with the capacity to carry a weight e.g. number of bags, CC blocks, boulders, hard rock etc.as per Contractor’s work methodology, loaded for the transport to the work site and subsequent dumping after positioning by anchors and Total Station. (13)“Dumping” is defined as controlled under-water placing of concrete blocks, boulders, hard rock,geo-bagsetc.at the berm from toe towards river.
(14)“Steining” means a lining (as for a well) of stone, brick, or other hard material to prevent caving in or washing away of soil
Local Government Engineering Department
Local Government Engineering Department
The Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) is renowned for its superior effectiveness compared with other public organizations in Bangladesh. Using the management and organizational theory framework, this paper attempts to answer the following two related questions: (i) why is LGED so effective, and (ii) has there been complementarity between LGED's own strengths and the capacity development support of its donors. LGED's business domain has been conducive to its effectiveness and to the mobilization of resources which it has used tactically to improve its effectiveness. LGED's main strengths have been in the organizational behavior elements, which were formed over time by the leadership and practices of the founding chief executive and his close associates, but LGED has also created a certain effective level of organizational structure. While weaknesses have persisted in procedures/rules of financial management, audit, quality assurance, etc, they have been balanced by the strengths in organizational behavior and structure, and further strengthened since the 1980s through capacity development support from donors. LGED is an interesting case because it has been successful without having fully adopted key recommendations of New Public Management on organizational management, such as transformation to agency, merit-based personnel management, and decompression of salary structure. In the final section of this paper, policy implications are presented for improving the performances of other public organizations in Bangladesh and for enhancing the performance of LGED.
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