ECF pat will stay with me: Pardeshi

Pardeshi is proceeding to UK on one-year study with the London School of Economics.

Dharia hailed Pardeshi as a promising young administrator who during his short one-and-half year tenure as the Municipal Commissioner demonstrated his commitment to sustainable urban growth and to protection of urban environment.

ECF-PCMC group convenor B D Sharma said Pardeshi was perhaps the first municipal commissioner at least in this part of the country to have declared a citizens’ charter demystyfying bureaucratic procedures and explaining what the civic body can do for citizens. He said Pardeshi’s comprehension of various issues, his grip over the administrative apparatus and the speed with which he functioned, was extraordinary. Pardeshi’s outstanding achievement was that he kept the elected representatives in good humour and at the same time encouraged citizen participation in various civic projects.

ECF member and managing trustee of Rajashri Parmar Memorial Foundation Chandmal Parmar said he was amazed to note that Pardesi has already implemented nearly two-third of the suggestions made by ECF-PCMC group exactly one year ago on reducing citizen hardships on traffic matters. He was pleasantly surprised at a civic body chief’s high-level involvement in an otherwise “unpopular” field like traffic engineering.

Replying to the felicitations, Pardeshi said his philosophy in urban administration had been to make the growth sustainable – by consuming as less natural resources as possible by promoting recycling processes.

He said he had been fortunate in getting the support of a large number of locality-based citizen fora in his endeavour. While moving on to the next assignment, he said, memories of a fond pat from an organisation like the ECF for his tenure with the PCMC would linger on for ever.