BMC appoints coordinating officer for Guardian Minister Lodha’s office
The office has been named as ‘Citizen’s Center’ and Lodha said he will sit in this office thrice every week where he will interact with citizens of Mumbai and will try towards addressing their grievances.
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Civic sources said that this will be an additional responsibility for Ande, and she will continue to work as the head of the Encroachment cell. (Express File Photo) A week after allotting an office for Guardian Minister, Mangal Prabhat Lodha inside the civic headquarters, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) administration on Friday appointed a senior civic official who will work as the coordinating officer between the guardian minister and civic officials.
The order for designating this official on the said post was issued on July 27 by Iqbal Singh Chahal, municipal commissioner and state appointed administrator.
The appointed official, Mrudula Ande, is an assistant municipal commissioner, who currently heads the Removal of Encroachments Department of the civic body. In the letter Ande has been named as a coordinating official and her responsibility will include passing guidelines to civic officials from concerned civic departments, related to issues pertaining to the civic body.
Civic sources said that this will be an additional responsibility for Ande, and she will continue to work as the head of the Encroachment cell.
On July 21, Lodha was allotted an office on the second floor of the main building. The office has been named as ‘Citizen’s Center’ and Lodha said he will sit in this office thrice every week where he will interact with citizens of Mumbai and will try towards addressing their grievances.
Earlier, Chahal told The Indian Express that the proposal of allotting an office in BMC had come from the guardian minister.
Meanwhile former BJP corporator, Vinod Mishra said, “Most of the issues that citizens bring out is related with BMC only, since they are the planning agency, having a coordinating officer will make the job easy as the minister would direct the complainant towards this officer who will then connect them with respective departments from civic body,”
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