Amravati. On New Year’s morning on Saturday, the newly appointed Municipal Commissioner of Mahanagar Palika, Dr. Praveen Ashtikar accepted his charge. At 9 in the morning, Dr. Ashtikar reached Manpa. The outgoing Municipal Commissioner Prashant Rode welcomed him with a bouquet of flowers. Deputy Commissioner Suresh Patil, Deputy Commissioner Narendra Wankhade, Environment Conservation Officer Mahesh Deshmukh and other officials were present on the occasion. The newly appointed Corporation Commissioner will hold the first meeting with all the department heads of the Municipal Corporation on Monday. Then communicate with the media.
Change commissioner even before completion of 2 years
Prashant Rode accepted the post of Municipal Commissioner on 14 March 2020. His 2-year term was about to be completed in the coming March 2022. But before that he was transferred. During his tenure, along with the pending Ghankachra project, many other projects moved towards completion. He also played an important role in exposing the toilet scam and other cases.
Even after sending some of the resolutions of the auditorium to fragmentation, he remained on the target of the ruling party. But he had to face a lot of humiliation in the case of leaking the secret draft of the division composition. After that, he himself had clearly told about not wanting to work in Amravati Municipality. Since then the speculation of his transfer was intensifying.
Journey from Kinwat to Amravati
Newly appointed Commissioner of Municipal Corporation Dr. Praveen Ashtikar told that he is a native of Nanded, and has been permanent in Pune for the last 25 years. His first posting was in Kinwat as the Chief Officer. Here he served for 5 years. After that, after working as the Chief Officer of Ambazari for two and a half years, he got a posting as Municipal Commissioner of Ahmednagar. Where he completed his tenure of 3 years. After that he was appointed as the chief officer of Ichalkaranji.
Where after serving for 3 years, he took over the work of Deputy Commissioner in Pune Municipal Corporation for 6 and a half years. After that he worked as a Joint Director in the Pune Metropolitan Transport Corporation for 4 years. After that worked for 4 years as Additional Commissioner in Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipality. After that he got appointment as commissioner in Bhiwandi Municipality. After serving here for a quarter of a year, he was working as an additional commissioner in the Nashik Municipal Corporation for the last quarter of a year. Now he has got appointment as Amravati Municipal Commissioner.