Civic body to help employees hone skills

NASHIK: The Nashik Municipal Corporation
(NMC) is planning to train its employees with an aim to develop their
skills and enhance their efficiency. A training agency will is to be
hired to train the employees.

There are over 6,000 employees in
various departments across all six divisions of the NMC, Nashik East,
Nashik West, Satpur, Panchavati, Cidco and Nashik Road.

Municipal commissioner Sanjay Khandare
said, “There is already a manpower shortage in the municipal
corporation. Hence, the focus is given on increasing the efficiency of
municipal employees. The employees also need to increase their skills
and efficiency.

We are planning to provide special training
from a training institute to develop skills and efficiency among
municipal employees.”

The civic administration has recently
completed the process of promoting its employees. As many as 683
municipal employees have been given promotions.

Khandare said,
“We carried out the promotions in a fair manner with transparency,”
stating that the procedure of promotions is very complicated. He added
that there were no promotions for the civic body’s employees for the
past one decade. Promotion is the right of an employee, Khandare said,
adding that it was the duty of employees to work honestly and with
dedication.

At present, the NMC is spending around 30 per cent
of its budget on administrative expenses. The administrative pattern is
the same as it was 10 years ago and very few employees were recruited
during this period. The boundaries of the city have increased to the
large extent. Hence, the burden on health, water supply, drainage and
other departments have increased a lot.

“Our priority is to
increase the efficiency of our employees and reduce the administrative
expenses by streamlining procedures, computerization and by using modern
technology and equipment. Hence, fulfilling the expectations of people
without increasing the administrative expenses is a challenge for us,”
he said.