In new job, Kunte to hold staff meeting today

Soon after taking charge, Kunte left for his old headquarters, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) building at CST, to hand over charge and introduce his successor, Ajoy Mehta, as the two switched roles.

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Kunte, whose transfer came three days ahead of the scheduled end of his tenure as municipal commissioner, returned to his new Mantralaya office a few hours later and left for the day around 4 pm. “He didn’t look at any specific files or hold any meetings on the first day. The only event scheduled on his agenda for tomorrow is a meeting with the entire staff,” said an employee at the state environment department. Kunte, who was transferred amid flak faced by the BMC over irregularities in the draft development plan, will be the fourth person to occupy the post of principal secretary, environment, in the past one year.

Before Mehta, who had barely completed four months in the job, the post was held by Medha Gadgil who was transferred within six months in the first major bureaucratic reshuffle after the new BJP-Shiv Sena government took over.

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