The mayor’s directions came at a review meeting convened in the PCMC commissioner’s cabin on Tuesday. (File photo)
The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has decided to fill up over 4,000 vacant posts in a phase-wise manner. The civic administration has taken the decision after the state government gave a green signal for filling up the vacant posts. All the posts are permanent ones. The PCMC already has over 8,000 employees.
“We have received a go ahead from the state government for filling up the vacant posts,” Additional Municipal Commissioner Vikas Dhakane told indianexpress.com.
“We are not going to fill up the posts at one go. They will be filled up in a phase-wise manner,” Dhakane added.
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The state government has asked the PCMC to take into consideration its financial resources before filling up the posts. “In view of the directions of the state government vis-a-vis civic finances, we will fill up the posts according to our financial condition. If we are in a position to fill up the posts, then we will go ahead. Otherwise, we will wait for things to improve,” he said.
Officials said that “selection will be done through interviews and written tests.”
In the past, corporators’ writ used to run when it came to filling up vacancies. “Some years ago, several influential corporators and political leaders got jobs for their kith and kin at the PCMC. Things have changed over the years but the demand for bribes persists,” activist Lahoo Landge said.
Last year, the appointment of permanent doctors came under the scanner. A PCMC committee member allegedly told the applicants to pay a bribe of Rs 30 lakh each in lieu of receiving the appointments. After The Indian Express highlighted the issue, the doctors got the jobs without paying any bribe.
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Meanwhile, Mayor Usha Dhore has directed the PCMC administration to set up all necessary treatment facilities for Covid-19 patients. She also asked the administration to take up an awareness drive to curb the spread of the infection.
The mayor’s directions came at a review meeting convened in the PCMC commissioner’s cabin on Tuesday. Standing committee chairman Nitin Landge, BJP House leader Namdeo Dhake, additional commissioner Vikas Dhakane, health medical officer Dr K Anil Roy, additional health medical officer Dr Pavan Salve, assistant health medical officer Dr Laxman Gofane and woman officer Dr Varsha Dange, among others, were present.
“In the current situation, Covid cases are surging rapidly. However, most of the cases are asymptomatic. Citizens should not panic but should follow government norms strictly so that we can stop the spread of the infection,” the mayor said.
The mayor urged the administration to keep all PCMC hospitals ready. Besides, she also directed the administration to speed up the vaccination of children in the age group of 15-18.
Manoj More has been working with the Indian Express since 1992. For the first 16 years, he worked on the desk, edited stories, made pages, wrote special stories and handled The Indian Express edition. In 31 years of his career, he has regularly written stories on a range of topics, primarily on civic issues like state of roads, choked drains, garbage problems, inadequate transport facilities and the like. He has also written aggressively on local gondaism. He has primarily written civic stories from Pimpri-Chinchwad, Khadki, Maval and some parts of Pune. He has also covered stories from Kolhapur, Satara, Solapur, Sangli, Ahmednagar and Latur. He has had maximum impact stories from Pimpri-Chinchwad industrial city which he has covered extensively for the last three decades.
Manoj More has written over 20,000 stories. 10,000 of which are byline stories. Most of the stories pertain to civic issues and political ones. The biggest achievement of his career is getting a nearly two kilometre road done on Pune-Mumbai highway in Khadki in 2006. He wrote stories on the state of roads since 1997. In 10 years, nearly 200 two-wheeler riders had died in accidents due to the pathetic state of the road. The local cantonment board could not get the road redone as it lacked funds. The then PMC commissioner Pravin Pardeshi took the initiative, went out of his way and made the Khadki road by spending Rs 23 crore from JNNURM Funds. In the next 10 years after the road was made by the PMC, less than 10 citizens had died, effectively saving more than 100 lives.
Manoj More's campaign against tree cutting on Pune-Mumbai highway in 1999 and Pune-Nashik highway in 2004 saved 2000 trees.
During Covid, over 50 doctors were asked to pay Rs 30 lakh each for getting a job with PCMC. The PCMC administration alerted Manoj More who did a story on the subject, asking then corporators how much money they demanded....The story worked as doctors got the job without paying a single paisa.
Manoj More has also covered the "Latur drought" situation in 2015 when a "Latur water train" created quite a buzz in Maharashtra. He also covered the Malin tragedy where over 150 villagers had died.
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