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.