PMPML officer says targeted for refusing BRTS post

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) had announced the setting up of a separate cell for BRTS for its better implementation starting from April 1. Later,the PMC withdrew itself from this and gave all the powers to PMPML.

“In January,senior PMPML officers created the post of the BRTS manager and appointed me as the manager. Though I accepted the offer,I got suspicious about it and refused it later because working as the chief engineer and as a BRTS manager would have been totally different. There was no relation between my present profile and the newly created post. Since nothing had been defined in the letter,I conveyed my inability to join,” Waghmare told The Indian Express.

“After that,last month,I went on a medical leave for 14 days,but the administration did not pay me even a single rupee as salary for February saying that since I had not started working as a manager of BRTS cell,they had stopped the salary for the month. The authorities have also stopped sending me the official car,” he added.

When contacted,PMPML joint managing director Satish Kulkarni said,“Waghmare had been asked to take up the post of BRTS manager. However,he refused to accept it. Moreover,he immediately went on a medical leave,without getting it sanctioned. If his leave is not sanctioned,why should the organisation pay him? Secondly,if he is on leave,why does he need the official car?”