The Indian Express                   12.03.2013

Sajag Nagrik Manch seeks action against civic chief

Urging the municipal commissioner to respond to their demand of restricting the civic administration from allowing names of local corporator on work done from ward level civic funds, The Sajag Nagrik Manch on Monday warned of going to state government to seek disciplinary action against the civic chief for failing to perform duties. In a press conference, Vivek Velankar said that they had submitted an application on April last year urging the civic chief to restrict the administration from allowing names of local corporators on installations or distribution of material done from the ward level fund of the Pune Municipal Corporation. As per the rule, it is mandatory for the civic officer to respond to the application within 12 weeks but it has been 46 weeks now and there is no communication on the issue from the municipal commissioner. "We expect that the municipal commissioner replies in two weeks failing to which we will approach the state government," he said. It has been observed that the local corporators get their name on the bus stops, benches, signages, buckets that are provided from the PMC funds. "The practise is illegal and should be immediately stopped with removal of the names from places where they exist," he added.