New municipal commissioner, KDA VC take charge of posts

Kanpur: The newly appointed vice-chairman of Kanpur Development Authority (KDA) Arvind Singh and municipal commissioner Shiv Sharanappa GN took the charge of their posts here on Tuesday evening.
The state government had transferred municipal commissioner Akshay Tripathi to Lucknow and in his place appointed Shiv Sharanappa as new municipal commissioner of Kanpur Municipal Corporation. Prior to the present appointment, he was working as chief development officer in Deoria.
After taking the charge on Tuesday evening, he met with the KMC officials.
Later, talking to reporters, Sharanappa, a 2015 batch IAS officer, said that his priority would be to accelerate the pace of development work in the city. My priority will be speedy disposal of public grievances and to execute all development work by following complete transparency”. He said he would join the office on Wednesday.
Arivnd Singh took the charge of vice-chairman of Kanpur Development Authority. The post has been lying vacant for the last two and a half months and district magistrate Kanpur Alok Tiwari was performing the duties as acting chairman of KDA.
Former KDA vice chairman Rakesh Singh had retired in April last and since then this post had been lying vacant.