Panchkula DC moved to Gurgaon as MCG boss

Gurgaon: Mukesh Kumar Ahuja, a Haryana Civil Service officer who was promoted as an IAS officer in 2019, has been appointed the new commissioner of (MCG.
The city has also got a new additional deputy commissioner (ADC), Vishram Kumar Meena. They are among the 42 IAS officers transferred in the state on Friday.
Ahuja will also hold the additional charge of chairman, Shri Mata Mansa Devi Shrine Board, Gurgaon. He will join office on Monday or Tuesday, he told TOI.
This will be Ahuja’s first stint in Gurgaon. He was appointed the deputy commissioner (DC) of Panchkula in July 2019 and also held the additional charge of chairman, Shri Mata Mansa Devi Shrine Board, Panchkula. Before his appointment as the Panchkula DC, he was the DC of Charkhi Dadri. He was also given the charge of director (hospitality), Haryana and special secretary (hospitality), Haryana in December 2019. Ahuja was posted as the commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of Panchkula in May this year. Ahuja’s appointment as MCG chief comes just ahead of the monsoon and after the second Covid-19 wave hit the city. He succeeds Vinay Pratap Singh, who on Friday was appointed as the deputy commissioner of Panchkula.
Singh became the MCG commissioner in January 2020. He had served in Gurgaon as its DC in 2017 and as the ADC in November 2014. With Singh as the MCG chief, the corporation sacked one-third of its contractual workforce in September 2020. MCG was spending around Rs 1.4 crore every month on their salaries. Singh also initiated an inquiry into the ‘satisfactory work’ certificate scam, in which forged certificates of councillors were being issued. He also emphasised on ways to increase the revenue of the corporation, with the income from property tax and water bills for the 2020-21 fiscal year the highest in three years.
Gurgaon’s new ADC Vishram Kumar Meena, a 2017-batch IAS officer, was earlier the sub-divisional officer (civil) of Ganaur. Meanwhile, Gurgaon divisional commissioner Rajeev Ranjan was also given the charge of commissioner and secretary to the state government’s monitoring and coordination department on Friday.