Military Engineer Services


Military Engineer Services is one of the oldest and largest government defense infrastructure development agency in India. It is mainly employed in the engineering and construction for the Indian Armed Forces including the Indian Army, Indian Air Force, Indian Navy, Indian Ordnance Factories, DRDO and the Indian Coast Guard.
Besides conventional building construction for the Armed Forces, Military Engineer Services is also involved in the execution of sophisticated and complex projects like airfields, buildings, workshops, roads, sports complex, runways, hangars, dockyards, wharves and other marine structures.
Military Engineer Services has also been entrusted with the construction of the National War Memorial and National War Museum.
MES is an Inter Service Organisation but has both Army and Civilian component of officers and other subordinate staff. While execution of all construction works is through contracts, execution of all maintenance services are both through contracts as well as departmentally employed labour.
Army officers from The Corps of Engineers, form the Military component of the organisation whereas the IDSE and IDCMS or Surveyor cadre, selected through prestigious Indian Engineering Services conducted by UPSC, Architect cadre and Barrack/Stores cadre form the Civilian Cadre of the organisation. Both the Civilian and the Military components together are responsible for the efficient working of this organisation.

https://www.idse.org/ Indian Defence Service of Engineers (IDSE)

Indian Defence Service of Engineers is a highly prestigious engineering services who are the backbone of the infrastructure of the Indian Armed Forces and are selected through the prestigious Indian Engineering Services examination conducted by UPSC and initially posted as Assistant Director or Assistant Garrison Engineer and then promoted up to Director General. These officers, when on an executive appointment, are responsible for overall functioning of their offices by way of providing B/R or E/m services in garrison or on project, While on staff appointment they are associated with planning, structural design, legal and pers matters.
Offrs who are promoted to EE from AE automatically become part of IDSE Gp A services.

Military Officers (Corps of Engineers)

Corps of Engineers Officers along with the Military Junior Engineers and Clerical staff form the Military Cadre in the MES. The officers, JCOs and other ranks are posted to MES Establishments on Tenures. Officers tenate appointments ranging from Assistant Garrison Engineers to Engineer-in-Chief.

http://idcms.org/ [Indian Defence Contract Management Service (IDCMS)]

Indian Defence Contract Management Service or surveyor cadre is a highly prestigious Grp 'A' service, recruited through the prestigious Indian Engineering Services examination conducted by UPSC. They are responsible for all the financial matters including Procurement, Tendering, Contract Management, Dispute Resolution, Arbitration and quantity surveying. These officers are posted as Assistant Garrison Engineer and promoted up to Additional Director General.

Architect Cadre

Architect cadre officers are responsible for producing the architectural drawings of various buildings and other structures. These officers are posted as Assistant Architect and promoted up to Additional Director General

Barrack & Stores Cadre

The Barrack Service Cadre is as old as Military Engineer Services though it remained under the Control of respective Station Commanders in the initial years during pre-independence era.The Barrack Organisation was originally introduced in 1946 to build up a service of the Barrack Department on the British Army Pattern, eventually to place it under the Army Service Corps as in United Kingdom.
Special Army Order 5/S/48 was issued setting up the Barrack Service by the MES to be ultimately transferred to the OC Station for Revenue Duties. Thus the cadre was responsible to two authorities, one to the MES for furniture and stores and the other to the Station Commander for revenue duties such as handing/taking over of buildings, submission of occupation/vacation returns, issue Licence Fee Bills, recovery of rent & allied charges from paying consumers in occupation of defence land/buildings etc.
The position was reviewed during 1949 and a Memorandum of Procedure, Organisation and Duties of Barrack Services was issued in July 1949. Accordingly, Barrack Services was made responsible for Revenue duties and responsibility of billing was transferred from Station Commander to the BO function independently under Commander Works Engineers.
Barrack & Store Branch provides Barrack services in addition to procuring, accounting, stocking/preserving and issuing of stores, both for works and maintenance. Barrack services include handing/taking over of buildings to/from units & officers/staff and providing & maintaining technical & married accn furniture. These services also include regular billing for rent, water and electricity consumed by service personnel, civilian officers/staff & private parties and charging for barrack damages whenever occur.The B/S officers are posted as Barrack Stores OFFICER and promoted up to PRINCIPAL BARRACK STORES OFFICER.

Origin

The Military Engineers was created and brought under the unified control of Engineer-in-Chief by the then Hon'ble Secretary of State of India by unification Royal Corps of Engineers Personnel and Civilian Staff in 26 September 1923.
Since then MES Day is celebrated on 26 September every year.

Zones

The Military Engineer Services consists of the following zones:-
CCE NO 1 DINJANCCE NO 2 MISSAMARICCE NO 3 NARANGI
CCE NEW DELHICCE CHABUACE ALLAHABAD
CE BANGALORECE GANDHINAGARCE NAGPUR
CE SHILLONGCE UDHAMPURCE WAC PALAM
CE HYDERABADCE ANDAMAN NICOBAR ZONECE BAREILLY
CE BATHINDACE BHOPALCE CHANDIGARH
CE CHENNAICE DELHICE JABALPUR
CE JAIPURCE JALANDHARCE JODHPUR
CE KOLKATACE LEHCE LUCKNOW
CE NAVY KOCHICE NAVY MUMBAICE NAVY VIZAG
CE PATHANKOTCE PUNECE RD DELHI
CE RD SECUNDERABADCE SE FALLS SHILLONGCE SILIGURI
CE SRINAGARCE UDHAMPURDGNP MUMBAI
DGNP VIZAGNational War Museum and Memorial-

CE- Chief Engineer, CCE- Chief Construction Engineer, AF- Air Force