No staff or bosses, East struggles to start work

No staff or bosses, East struggles to start work

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New Delhi: The newlyformed civic agencies are clueless about starting work. Even though the Delhi government-appointed director of local bodies approved the staff division formula on Thursday, some departments will function as they did before. 
    Earlier, MCD had advertised vacant posts in all the three new corporations. The posts were that of chief town planner, chief accountant-cum-financial advisor, assessor and collector, chief law officer, director press and information and other director-level posts. 
    But there were very few respondents, which is why the existing heads of departments were given additional charge of all three new corporation. 
    “Since these posts are on deputation basis, the corporation is yet to fill these up,” said a senior official. 
    Sources said that Ravi Dass, engineer-in-chief of MCD, is likely to take over charge of South Delhi Municipal Corporation; Anil Prakash and Vijay Prakash are likely to assume charge of North and East corporations respectively. 
    While trifurcating the 272 wards between three corporations, the director of local bodies had transferred 15 wards from one zone to another. But the official notification was issued only last month. 
    The zones have not started the process of shifting records. Most of the important citizen-centric services have been badly hit as people are clueless about where to go. 
    Services like RTI, sanctioning of building plans of big plots, registration of birth and death and the like will continue to be affected for another month. Residents of wards like Daryaganj, Nizamuddin, which were earlier part of the city zone but were transferred to the central zone after the split, are facing problems now. 
    “Services like paying of property tax, sanctioning of building plans, issuance of birth and death certificates have been hit. But these are only teething problems; things will sort out after a week,” said an official. 
    Meanwhile, in the East corporation, only the commissioner’s office and municipal secretary’s department have shifted. Other departments are yet to shift. Work can begin only then. 
    Also, East is yet to get office furniture. There are no computers and phones for the staff. Officials said that when DSIIDC vacated the floor, they removed the LAN connection too.

source: Times of India