The Times of India      12.09.2014 

Civic admin ignores mayor’s order to transfer staff

NASHIK:
It’s been two months since city mayor Yatin Wagh’s directive of
transferring employees working for more than three years in the same
department in the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC), but the civic
administration is yet to take action.

The all party corporators
during the General Body Meeting (GBM) of the NMC had urged the mayor to
transfer employees working in the same department for over three years.
Accordingly, Wagh had directed the civic officials to make the
transfers at the earliest. But the civic administration has not taken
any action in this connection.

Speaking to TOI, a civic body
official said, “We are in the process of collecting information
pertaining to the employees’ duration in their respective departments.
We have already asked all the heads of the departments to submit such
information. Besides, since the code of conduct is likely to come into
effect any time now in view of the forthcoming state assembly elections,
we have decided to transfer employees once the polls are over. The list
of transfers of employees would also be ready by then.”

There
are close to 6,000 employees in various departments of municipal
corporations like health, public works department, town planning
department, electric, estate, legal, property tax, water tax and local
body tax department. Besides the Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan, the headquarters
of the civic body, there are six divisional offices of the NMC – Nashik
East, Nashik West, Panchavati, Nashik Road, Satpur and Cidco.

At the GBM, the mayor had also asked all the officials to remain present
during visitors’ hours from 3pm to 5pm daily for the convenience of the
citizens and public representatives. The civic administration was
directed to issue a fresh circular in this connection.