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Mumbai: As many as 11 of 25 administrative wards of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have been functioning without a full-time assistant commissioner, also known as ward officer, for the last two years...
The responsibility of filling up the posts lies with the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC), that comes under the general administration department of the state government...
As of now, executive engineers have been filling up the posts of assistant commissioners in these wards, a BMC ward officer who did not wish to be named told ThePrint...
According to the ward officer, five other posts that are to be filled by the MPSC are lying vacant in various departments one each in planning, stormwater management and market departments, and two in the encroachment department...
According to the first ward officer, the assistant commissioner posts are lying vacant because the MPSC has yet to give out final appointment letters to candidates who cleared the previous exams...
