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*Advisor to [[Lieutenant Governor]] or [[Chief Commissioner]]

*Chief Engineer for his Province

Under him, Superintending Engineers were responsible for District, or a major project ie: a railway line.

Executive Engineers reported to the Superintending Engineers and were project managers for the single project. they would control:

Assistant engineers are drawn from Civilian staff or the Royal Engineers, Artillery or line Officers. They were trained at [[Rorkee]]

New officer to India spend a year at Rorkee serving with the Bengal Sappers and Miners for a year to acclimatise and become linguistically fluent.

Rorkee housed:

*PWD Civil Lists 1861-1940 ['''IOR: V/13''']

== External links ==

*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3VQTAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&lr=#PPP24,M1 India List & India Office List 1905] Your railway ancestor may be here.

*[http://www.archive.org/stream/indiaindianengin00medlrich#page/38/mode/2up India and Indian Engineering] by J G Medley 1873 ex Principal of Tomason College, Rorkee. Good description of the life and work of engineers in India.

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