Commissioner pulls up BMC officials for 'incompetence'

Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner, while reviewing the cases of time-limit, directed the officials to ensure that such cases are solved within stipulated time frame and submit a report in this regard along with the evidence. Commissioner Tejaswi S Naik, told the officials to issue show-cause notice to Health officer Dr Prashant Bajpai, who remained absent from the meeting without any prior information. Besides, a notice was also issued to Zone 15 zonal officer Mazhar Ali for being late in the meeting and separate notices to zonal officer of zone 5, KC Gupta, who attended the meeting without gathering complete information regarding different cases.

Notably, Naik has been regularly reviewing different works of the Corporation. On Wednesday, Naik was reviewing the time-limit cases zone-wise. He warned the officials for attending the meetings in future with complete information in hand and submit the redressed cases’ report with evidence to him. He asked the officials that the cases should not be delayed unnecessarily. He pulled up the officials for the delay in some cases and warned that such mistakes should not take place in future otherwise, stern action would be taken against the errant officials. While issuing show-cause notices to the officials, Naik stated that stern action would be taken against the officials, if in future found being absent or reaching late in the meetings. Additional Commissioners Chandramouli Shukla, Sanjay Kumar, GP Mali and other senior officials remained present during the meeting.