Public Works Department

Many governments worldwide have had departments or ministries referred to as the Public Works Department (PWD) either formally or informally.

In Australia: -

  • NSW Public Works
  • Public Works Department (Victoria)
  • Public Works Department (Western Australia)

In Brunei: -

  • Public Works Department of Brunei

In Canada: -

  • Public Works and Government Services Canada

In Hong Kong: -

  • Works Branch, known previously as Public Works Department, and for a time between 1997 and 2002 as Works Bureau.

In India: -

  • Central Public Works Department
  • State Public Works Departments
  • Kerala Public Works Department
  • Karnataka Public Works Department
  • Tamil Nadu Public Works Department
  • Public Works Department, (City level)

In Malaysia: -

  • Malaysian Public Works Department

In New Zealand: -

  • New Zealand Ministry of Works

In The Philippines: -

  • Department of Public Works and Highways (Philippines)

In Singapore: -

  • Public Works Department of Singapore

In Turkey: -

  • Ministry of Public Works and Settlement

In the United States of America: -

  • Los Angeles County Department of Public Works

In Vietnam: -

  • Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transportation and Public Works


Famous quotes containing the words public, works and/or department:

    ““Why visit the playhouse to see the famous Parisian models, ... when one can see the French damsels, Norma and Diana? Their names have been known on both continents, because everything goes as it will, and those that cannot be satisfied with these must surely be of a queer nature.””
    —For the City of New Orleans, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature, in which Scythians and Ethiopians and Indians dwell. What is echo, what are light and shade, day and night, ocean and stars, earthquake and eclipse, there? The works of man are everywhere swallowed up in the immensity of nature. The AEgean Sea is but Lake Huron still to the Indian.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.”
    —Los Angeles Sportscaster. quoted in Independent Magazine (London, Sept. 28, 1991)