The Public Health & Municipal Engineering Department is under administrative control of Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department at the Secretariat level.

The Department is in charge of Investigation, Designs, and Execution of Water Supply and Sewerage Schemes in all the 110 Municipalities in the state and 12 Municipal Corporations besides the Technical Control over all the Engineering works in these Municipal Towns and Corporations.

After completion, the Water Supply and Sewerage Schemes are being handed over to the concerned Municipal Corporations and Municipalities for operation and maintenance.

MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING WORKS.

PH & ME Department offers the following services to the ULBs

• Approval of designs of Municipal works.
• Technical sanction to estimates.
• Technical opinion to the Municipalities in finalization of tenders.
• Check measurement of works executed by the Municipal Engineers grade II & III.
• Periodical inspection of water supply and sewerage schemes maintained by Municipality.
• Approval of Bye-laws for water supply in Urban Local Bodies.