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.