Pen-down strike in NMC after MLC Datke ‘abuses’ asst town planning director

Nagpur: Nagpur Municipal Corporation officials and employees resorted to pen-down strike after MLC Pravin Datke allegedly used abusive language against assistant director of town planning Pramod Gawande.
Barring essential services of water supply, health and fire, and emergency services departments, the NMC officials and employees in property tax, town planning, market departments etc from its headquarters and 10 zonal offices have joined the strike.
A delegation of the officials, including additional municipal commissioners Ram Joshi, Sanjay Nipane, deputy municipal commissioners Mahesh Moroney, S Jaidev, assistant municipal commissioners Harish Raut, Vijay Humne, superintending engineers from water works and public works departments Shweta Banerjee and Manoj Talewar among others met mayor Sandip Joshi and condemned the incident. They also demanded the mayor to take action against Datke who is a former mayor.
Datke told TOI that he had used abusive language while talking to Gawande on phone. “I realized my mistake and instantly offered an apology to him,” he said.