The Gujarat authorities Thursday appointed the respective district collectors as directors of the newly fashioned municipal firms in Morbi, Anand, Nadiad (Kheda), Vapi (Valsad), Mehsana, Surendranagar, Navsari, Porbandar and Gandhidham (Kutch).
A senior authorities official mentioned that within the absence of an elected physique, the collectors will carry out the duties of the elected wing, whereas municipal commissioners will carry out govt duties. The 9 new municipal firms, fashioned after merging numerous municipalities and village panchayats, had been accredited by the state cupboard Wednesday. Late on Wednesday, the federal government additionally appointed seven Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and two Gujarat Administrative Service (GAS) officers because the commissioners of the brand new civic our bodies.
The seniormost among the many seven IAS officers is G H Solanki, who has been appointed because the Surendranagar municipal commissioner. Solanki has been transferred from his publish as District Improvement Officer of Bhavnagar. A 2014-batch IAS officer, he has a Grasp’s diploma in Agricultural Economics.
Three IAS officers of the 2016-batch — Dev Choudhary, Yogesh Choudhary, and Ravindra Khatale — have been appointed as municipal commissioners of the Vapi, Navsari, and Mehsana municipal firms, respectively.
Dev has been transferred from his present posting as Deputy Municipal Commissioner of Ahmedabad Municipal Company. He’s a science graduate and has a Grasp’s in public administration.
Yogesh, however, is a Bachelor of Know-how graduate and has a Grasp’s in enterprise administration. Khatale, a mechanical engineering graduate, has been transferred from his present publish as Regional Commissioner of Municipalities.
Equally, three IAS officers of the 2017-batch — Swapnil Khare, Milind Bapna, and Mirant Parikh — have been made municipal commissioners of the municipal firms of Morbi, Anand, and Nadiad, respectively.
Khare, who has finished Bachelor of Know-how in Civil Engineering from IIT Delhi, has been transferred from the publish of Deputy Municipal Commissioner of the Rajkot Municipal Company.
At the moment, Bapna is the district improvement officer of Anand. He’s a commerce graduate and has finished a Grasp’s in enterprise legislation.
Ahmedabad Deputy Municipal Commissioner Parikh has been transferred as Nadiad municipal commissioner. He’s additionally a BTech graduate.
Two GAS officers — H J Prajapati and M P Pandya — have been made the municipal commissioners of Porbandar and Gandhidham municipal firms, respectively. Prajapati and Pandya had been beforehand Resident Extra Collectors (RACs) of Patan and Kutch, respectively.
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