Pune divisional commissioner Dilip Band had issued an order to the PCMC on Wednesday to move the court for disqualifying 25 corporators involved in unauthorised constructions.
The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) on Thursday started the process of referring the matter of disqualification of 25 corporators to the Bombay
high court.
Pune divisional commissioner Dilip Band had issued an order to the PCMC on Wednesday to move the court for disqualifying 25 corporators involved in unauthorised constructions.
PCMC commissioner Ashish Sharma told DNA, “We will refer the matter to the high court as per the guidelines of the divisional commissioner. We have also instructed the legal department and the process has started.”
The proposal of disqualification of 25 corporators was first tabled in March 2008 in a general body (GB) meeting. The GB has avoided taking a decision on the issue for two years. Ultimately, the state government recently ordered that action be taken at the earliest in the case. It had also asked Sharma to make
available all related documents to Band immediately.
Under section 10 of the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporation (BPMC) Act, 1949, any corporator of a municipal body who undertakes unauthorised constructions or encourages such constructions stands to be disqualified from membership of the
civic body.
Sharma, who had issued notices to 25 such corporators and after recording their replies, had proposed to the GB that they be disqualified.
But the GB, which is the competent authority, kept on postponing the matter.
On January 20 this year, the urban development department of the state government wrote to the PCMC asking it to take a decision within a month.
A reminder followed in June, to which the municipal commissioner said the proposal was scheduled to be taken up by the GB in February, March and April. Each time, however, the GB avoided taking a decision without giving any reason.
With the state government determining that the GB was not performing its duty as per the BPMC Act, it evoked powers under section 448 (2) of the Act to force the civic body to take a decision.
Social activists Manav Kamble welcomed Dilip Band’s order to the PCMC to start the process of disqualifying the corporators.
“Though it is a delayed decision, Sharma will now act quickly and move the court immediately. These 25 corproators will not be able to contest the next municipal election,” he told DNA.
Kamble said these corporators had almost completed their five-year term but they should be punished.
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