Incumbent municipal commissioner Mahesh Zagade has gone for his mid-career training at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Administrative Academy, Mussorie.
Civic activists have reacted sharply to mayor Mohansingh Rajpal’s announcement that a new civic chief would be joining the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). Rajpal had made the statement to the media on Wednesday after his meeting with chief minister Prithviraj Chavan and deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar in Mumbai.
Incumbent municipal commissioner Mahesh Zagade has gone for his mid-career training at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Administrative Academy, Mussorie. Divisional commissioner Dilip Band has been handed over additional charge of the municipal commissioner.
But he has written to the state government to relieve him of the additional charge. The absence of the municipal commissioner caused an uproar in the general body of the PMC, with corporators cutting across party lines demanding a full-time civic chief. National Society of Clean Cities (NSCC) president, Satish Khot, shot a strongly-worded letter to the chief minister on Thursday demanding that Zagade should not be transferred. Pointing to the good work initiated by Zagade in checking the nexus between builders and politicians, Khot stressed that his presence was necessary to ensure proper development of the city.
Khot urged the chief minister to ensure one of the two additional commissioners to officiate as the civic chief till Zagade returns. “Further, instructions should be given to the civic administration neither to take any major decisions nor repeal any made by Zagade,” his letter stated.
Echoing a similar view, RTI activist Vijay Kumbhar wondered aloud on the urgency on the part of corporators to demand a full-time civic chief.
“The absence of a full-time municipal commissioner has not hampered the functioning of the civic body in any way. This dramatisation and announcement on the part of the mayor is nothing but a political gimmick,” he said.
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