Assam Schedule of Rates

About Assam PWD / Irrigation

Assam's split PWD model — PWD-Roads as one division, PWD-Buildings & National Highways (B&NH) as another — reflects the state's distinct road-construction and building-construction constituencies and predates the 2017 administrative reorganisation. The split reduces administrative overlap on disparate work types: PWD-Roads handles state highway and major rural road maintenance/upgrade, while PWD-B&NH handles government buildings (schools, hospitals, residential quarters) plus state-share NH coordination. NE-state geography drives significant rate variation: the flood-prone Brahmaputra valley demands specific embankment and protection works; the hilly Barak valley (Cachar, Karimganj, Hailakandi districts) requires hilly-terrain factors; the heavy monsoon (3,000-5,000 mm annually) compresses the productive construction window to roughly November-April. Both PWD divisions distribute SORs via portal pages rather than single PDFs — pwdroads.assam.gov.in and pwdbnh.assam.gov.in each have schedule-of-rates landing pages with district-specific PDFs accessible from inside. The Irrigation Department publishes a stable, downloadable Schedule of Rates for Civil Works (2023-24 PDF available) covering irrigation civil works, embankments, river-training, water-resources structures — particularly relevant for Brahmaputra-flood-management works under the state water-resources programme. NHIDCL handles strategic and major NH works in Assam (and other NE states) using MoRTH SDB Vol II (Hilly) plus NE-specific tender packages; state-funded works use Assam PWD-Roads or PWD-B&NH SORs. JJM-Assam works through Public Health Engineering Department layer onto the existing Irrigation rates for civil scope plus CPHEEO for treatment specifics. Guwahati Smart City SPV uses PWD-B&NH for buildings, PWD-Roads for civic roads, and Irrigation for water-related civic items.