Nagpur: Ruling party leader Avinash Thakre on Tuesday informed leader of opposition and former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis that there is resentment among citizens against ruling party corporators due to lack of development works in the city.
Citing fund crisis, the civic administration has stopped all development works, as a result of which corporators were facing public wrath. There is huge dissatisfaction among citizens and corporators are being held responsible for this, Thakre said in a letter to Fadnavis.
In addition, as NMC general body meeting has been taking place online, corporators were facing many difficulties in presenting people-centric issues. Therefore, there is no platform available for the administration to respond and make its views known. Against this backdrop, Thakre urged Fadnavis to get funds from Maharashtra government and also to get its permission to hold in person meetings of the general body.
In his letter, Thakre said corporators were facing many difficulties due to the intransigence of the administration. In addition, many development work proposals are being stopped by the administration due to lack of funds. In 2018-19, NMC budget was presented by former standing committee chairman Pradip Pohane. However, due to the implementation of code of conduct for the Lok Sabha elections then and immediately afterwards the Assembly elections, the files regarding development works could not be prepared.
Development works were started from November 2019. However, the then IAS Tukaram Mundhe, who was transferred to NMC as municipal commissioner after the change in power at the state, directed a stoppage of development works citing insufficient funds.
After that, due to the outbreak of coronavirus, the city underwent lockdown and all development works came to a standstill. Even the works proposed by outgoing standing committee chairman Vijay Zalke for the year 2020-21 too were stopped by the civic chief.
Thakre pointed out that there was a lot of dissatisfaction among citizens regarding ruling party corporators as the work related to even repairing of damaged sewerage chambers was not being done by civic body for the last two consecutive years.
Thakre also accused the administration of not heeding the demands of corporators.
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