Chapter 3

Engineering professional Practice

sectors in Nepal
3.1 Public sectors, Government organizations
like ministries, departments, regional and
district offices, corporations, Institute of
engineering etc,
3.2 General job description of engineers
working in public sectors,
3.3 Private sectors. Construction companies,
consulting companies, private engineering
colleges etc,
3.4 General job description of engineers
working in the private sectors.

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3.1 Public sectors, Government organizations like
ministries, departments, regional and district
offices, corporations, Institute of engineering etc,
Public sectors in Nepal are understood the organizations
that are run by the budget sanctioned by the
government. The organizations in which qualified
people can compete for participation are public
organizations. All the ministries and departments,
regional offices, district offices and other sister
organizations are public sectors wherein any qualified
Nepalese citizen can apply and be nominated for the
job. The ministries enlisted in the budget
announcement for fiscal year 2073-74BS are as
follows-
1. Finance Ministry,
2. Industry, commerce and supply Ministry,
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3. Law, Justice and Parliamentary Ministry,
4. Agriculture and cooperative Ministry,
5. Home Ministry,
6. Population and Environment Ministry,
7. Water Resource Ministry,
8. Physical planning and Works Ministry,
9. Culture, Tourism and Civil aviation Ministry,
10 Foreign Ministry
11 Land-Reform and land management Ministry,
12 Women, children and social welfare Ministry,
13 Defense Ministry,
14 Forests and soil conservation Ministry,
15 Science and Technology Ministry,
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16 Education and Sports Ministry,
17 General administrative Ministry,
18 Information and Communication Ministry,
19 Local development Ministry,
20 Health Ministry,
21 Labor and Transport Ministry.
Other public organizations are as follows-
22 Secretariat of National Planning Commission,
23 Finance Ministry-
– Internal Loan section,
– Foreign loan section,
– Investment section,
– Miscellaneous section
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24 President Office,
25 V-President Office,
26 Parliament – Constitutional bodies,
27 Courts – Constitutional bodies,
– General administrative,
– Commission of Investigation for Abuse of Authority (CIAA)
28 Auditors’ Offices,
29 Public Commission Office,
30 Election Commission Office,
31 Office of Attorney General,
32 Council of Justice,
33 Office of Prime Minister,
34 Ministerial Council,
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35 Center for National Awareness
36 Municipalities,
37 DDCs, VDCs, Regional level organizations under
various ministries.
Corporations and companies are considered semi -
governmental organizations, in which the government
authorities appoint apex positions and others by the
Public Service Commission. The following are some of
the corporations and companies in Nepal in which
engineering graduates can practice engineering
professions-The National Construction Company
Nepal (NCCN),
1. The Nepal Telecommunication Company (NTC),
2. The Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC),
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3. Nepal Diary Development Corporation,
4. Nepal Industrial Development Corporation (NIDC),
5. Royal Nepal Drugs Corporation,
6. Nepal Electricity Authority,
7. Nepal Rastra Bank,
8. Nepal Agriculture Bank,
9. Nepal Banijya Bank,
10 Hetauda cement Company,
11 Nepal Jadi-Buti Udyog Corporation,
12 Tribhuvan University,
13 University Grant Commission,
14 Himal Cement Company,
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3.2 General Job description of engineers working in the
public sectors-
The following job description is for the fresh or newly
entering engineers on the Gazetted third class
positions, abstracted from the office of Rural
Infrastructure development Project (RIDP), Nepal
Government.
1. to perform preliminary and detail survey, design and
estimate,
2. to execute and assign for execution of project works,
3. to conduct various programs for increasing people’s
capacity,
4. to report writings of-
1. progress report,
2. feasibility report,
3. final report
4. monitoring and evaluation report etc,
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5. to monitor and evaluate ongoing projects,
6. to facilitate donor agencies is involved,
7. to execute and perform works and jobs assigned by
immediate superiors, and
8. to execute other jobs planned specifically for engineers
as the nature and case be.
The general job description of gazetted second class
engineers in public sectors exercised by the Public
service Commission as per published in the Public
service Commission Bulletin no. 11 on Asad 4, 2054
BS is as under-
1. Planning, programming and execution of works,
2. Research on technology, cases, various skills for
upgrading,
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3. Monitoring, and evaluation and supervision of projects,
4. Administrative activities,
5. Financial administrative activities.

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3.3 Private sectors- Soft/Hardware companies,
consulting firms, private engineering colleges etc
In the open market system, there have been thousands of
private organizations in operations in various sectors.
As engineers are the technical personnel who work for
the greater benefits of the public, entrepreneurs have
used them in producing larger quantities in economic
investments. Therefore, there are private organizations
working more efficiently than government sectors
under strict supervision and motivations.
There are nearly 30 private colleges affiliated to five
universities – governmental and non-governmental.
There are many computer institutes to teach computer
literacy to computer software design and
programming. E-businesses have occurred in
Kathmandu. All those private organizations employ
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3.4 General Job description of engineers working in
Private sectors
The following job description from the United Builders and
company, an A-class construction company in Nepal.
1. to coordinate works between stakeholders- clients,
consulting and contractors
2. to layout works, to survey and to estimate,
3. to supervise, monitor, and control works,
4. to control quality, to assess and report to concerning
authorities,
5. to prepare bills as a quantity surveyor,
6. to plan project and report progress,
7. to prepare technical report and prepare claims if any,
8. to conduct necessary training regarding site work and
office organizations system to new staffs,
9. to overall manage of construction project etc.
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