Man found holding two posts in NMC, investigation ordered

Nagpur: An alleged case of a person holding two posts and drawing salary from both has emerged in Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC). Standing committee chairman Vijay Zalke on Tuesday ordered an inquiry against junior health inspector Vikas Mahajan when his name was found in the attendance register showing him as conservancy staffer too.
Zalke said Mahajan might have been withdrawing two salaries for different posts. He asked the additional municipal commissioner Ram Joshi to probe the matter.
The standing committee also asked the Nagpur Municipal Corporation administration to issue show cause notices to the entire staff of Dharampeth zone for not attending emergency calls during heavy rains on Sunday.
Besides, the civic administration has also been asked to issue show cause notice to executive engineer Dilip Bisen for failing to resolve an issue of faulty road construction by Abhi Engineering at Dipty Signal. Residents of the locality had raised the issue with their corporator and former standing committee chairman Pradip Pohane almost two years ago. Still, no effort was made to resolve the issue, Zalke said.
On Tuesday, the standing committee also reviewed the building sanction plans by the town planning department. Zalke said that since January 1, 2020, till date, the department had received 664 applications pertaining to building plans. “Of these, the department had sanctioned 242 applications, rejected 258, and did not take any decision in 164 cases,” Zalke said.
If the department failed to respond to any building sanction plan application within 60 days, then it is considered as deemed sanction,” he pointed out. The panel was informed that many staff from department were deployed at quarantine centres delaying the decision on building plans.
The standing committee members also criticized the municipal commissioner Tukaram Mundhe for taking credit for cleaning of Nag, Pili and Pora rivers with less money. According to Zalke, credit for this year’s low expenditure goes to NHAI, PWD, MahaMetro and OCW as these agencies had provided men and machines for the job. Besides, NMC had procured 10 excavators and tippers in last financial year using special grants from then chief minister Devendra Fadnavis. All this led to lower expenditure this year, he said.
Standing committee members also expressed concern over Mundhe not sanctioning Rs 3 lakh each to corporators for carrying out emergency works like repairing manhole chambers, cleaning sewerlines etc.