The Hindu 01.10.2013
Town Planning post may no longer be most sought after
Officials will now be roped in to monitor solid waste management in the city
The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) Town
Planning Department seems to be the favourite destination for officials
on deputation, given the number of officials who come with
“recommendation letters”.
Monitoring waste
To
put an end to this, BBMP Commissioner M. Lakshminarayan said Town
Planning officials would now be roped in to monitor solid waste
management in the city. The officials on deputation would now be
assigned to at least one ward where they would have to monitor garbage
clearance from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m., before reporting to work at the Town
Planning Department.
The officials would also have to report to zonal chief engineers every day.
Issue discussed
This
issue was discussed at the BBMP council meeting on Monday. Ruling party
leader N. Nagaraj, opposition leader B.N. Manjunath Reddy, Dr. Rajkumar
ward councillor Gangabyraiah, Jayamahal councillor M.K. Gunashekar,
Kacharakanahalli councillor Padmanabh Reddy and Nagapura councillor S.
Harish noted that the BBMP should decide where to place the officials
who come on deputation. “There are few who come with ‘recommendation
letters’ from Vidhana Soudha and demand a certain post in a particular
department. This is not a right precedent,” they said.
Mr.
Nagaraj demanded that officials on deputation be repatriated to their
parent departments, while Mr. Gangabyraiah charged that the BBMP does
not have any control over these officials.
Under pressure
Mr.
Lakshminarayan admitted that he had been facing pressure to appoint
certain officials on deputation in the Town Planning Department for the
past four months. The BBMP cannot have more officials in the department
exceeding the number of sanctioned posts. The Mayor had directed that
officials from the Public Works Department would not be accommodated in
Town Planning.
Mayor B.S. Sathyanarayan directed the
Standing Committee for Personnel and Administrative Reforms to submit
the list of officials on deputation working in the BBMP, especially in
the Town Planning Department, within a week.
