The State Home Department in Maharashtra is gearing up for a significant overhaul of its top police leadership, including the position of Director General of Police (DGP) and Police Commissioners of Nagpur and Thane. The impending retirement of the current DGP, Rajnish Seth, on December 31 has prompted the department to commence the process of selecting his successor.A top rank official said that several prominent names have emerged as contenders for the esteemed position of State DGP. The frontrunner is Senior IPS Officer Rashmi Shukla, who currently serves as the Director General (DG) of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB). Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar is also a strong candidate for the role. Other notable contenders include Thane CP Jaijeet Singh, DG ATS Sadanand Date, DG Police Housing Sandeep Bishnoi, DG Railway Pradnya Sarvade, Additional Director of NIA Atulchandra Kulkarni, and DG State Security Corporation Bipin Kumar Singh, he said. He further stated that the State Home ...
A day after Sachin Kurve, District Collector, conducted inspection at City Survey Office No 2 that revealed certain irregularities in functioning, the staffers at the said office staged demonstrations against the inspection on Friday.
Kurve and Ravindra Kumbhare, Resident Deputy Collector, conducted inspection at City Survey Office No 2 on Thursday and were to continue inspection on Friday too. The inspection was conducted following the complaints that touts were active in the said office and that there were irregularities. Kurve had started a special counter at Setu Kendra in Collectorate premises to accept and dispose of applications relating to mutation of property records. This had affected the touts active in City Survey Offices in the city. Conducting inspection of City Survey Office No 2 ruffled many a feather in the said office.
During inspection, Kurve found that not even 10 per cent of the applications received through Setu Kendra were disposed of at the said office. He blasted Vinayak Thakre, In-charge of the City Survey Office No 2, and other staffers at the said office. He is learnt to have warned the employees of appropriate action for delay in disposal of applications received.
On Friday, Kurve called for documents of the said office for verification. This irked the employees of City Survey Office No 2, and they staged demonstrations against the action. They wore black badges and raised slogans against District Collector. They also demanded to close down the special counter for mutation of records, started at Setu Kendra.
Collector is learnt to have issued a show cause notice to Thakre regarding pendency of applications. According to sources, in Mouza Sakkardara, a total of 88 applications for mutation were received at Setu Kendra counter. However, only one was disposed of by City Survey Office No 2. In Mouza Babulkheda, not a single of several applications received was disposed of as the clerk concerned was on ‘leave without authorisation’. Some more irregularities were found during inspection, and the Collector is compiling a report of the same, it is learnt.
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