With the fast approaching date of retirement of Abhay Sinha, the outgoing DG, CPWD appears to have been caught in a fix: whom to name the next DG. What has made the situation peculiar is the seniority of a Special DG which makes him a natural claimant for the post of DG CPWD. He comes from Architectural Engineering cadre, which has never headed the organisation so far. But he could not be denied the top post straightaway as among the present lot he is the senior most Special DG. Mostly, the top post goes to Civil Engineering cadre, though on few occasions Electrical & Mechanical Engineering Cadre too have got the chance to head the organisation. At present, there are six Special DG rank posts of which four were held by Civil Engineering cadre and one each by Electrical/Mechanical cadre and Architectural Engineering cadre. Those in the know of the affairs say keeping in view CPWD's professional mandate and job description, it appears unlikely that the CPWD Chief post would be given to Architecture Engineering cadre. Indianmandarins has reliably learnt that to settle the complex situation suitably the Ministry has recently got one more DG rank post approved so that the senior most Special DG (am Architecture Engineer) could be given DG rank. The government may take some more time to announce the next DG for CPWD but one thing is clear that this would be for the first time that CPWD would have two DGs together. Indianmandarins further learnt that the senior most Special DG (Architecture Engineering cadre) would be made DG (Planning & Training) thus clearing the deck for a Civil and Electrical/Mechanical cadre officer for the top job in CPWD. The question remains 'Who will be the next DG, CPWD?' w.e.f July 01, 2018