Indian Express 24.12.2009
Zagade flays PMC legal department
Criticising the legal department for not being efficient enough, Pune Municipal Commissioner Mahesh Zagade on Wednesday said there was urgent need to restructure the legal department and that he would initiate measures in this year’s budget in this regard.
In the general body meeting on Wednesday, discussion on the civic legal department came when the legal advisor Manjusha Idhate failed to give satisfactory answers to the queries of BJP corporator Anil Shirole.
Soon after, corporators including Shyam Deshpande, Kishor Shinde, Vikas Mathkari, Ujjwal Keskar, Shankar Kemse narrated their experiences about the legal department.
Shinde said he had been asking queries from the department since the last eight months in vain. Mathkari said since the PMC advocates are evading trials, PMC had been losing cases.
Reacting to this, Zagade said, “There is a need to restructure the legal department, as there is no control on it. Cases against PMC are increasing. The legal panel appointed at PMC is not efficient enough and there is no mechanism to keep a check on this panel.”
