Amid robust opposition from Assistant and Deputy Municipal Commissioners, the tenure of Chandrashekhar Chore, Officer on Particular Obligation (OSD) to the Deputy Municipal Commissioner (DMC) within the Municipal Commissioner’s Workplace (MCO), was not prolonged after it ended on December 31. Prashant Gaikwad, DMC (Finance), has been given extra cost of the publish. | File Picture
Mumbai: Amid robust opposition from Assistant and Deputy Municipal Commissioners, the tenure of Chandrashekhar Chore, Officer on Particular Obligation (OSD) to the Deputy Municipal Commissioner (DMC) within the Municipal Commissioner’s Workplace (MCO), was not prolonged after it ended on December 31. Prashant Gaikwad, DMC (Finance), has been given extra cost of the publish.
Further Cost Assigned to Prashant Gaikwad
Chore had been appointed to the place following his retirement on December 31, 2024. The proposed extension of his tenure reportedly sparked discontent amongst senior officers, who felt the emptiness ought to have been stuffed from inside their very own cadre.
Formal Objections Submitted in November 2025
In November 2025, a gaggle of 17 DMCs and 20 Assistant Municipal Commissioners (AMCs) wrote to Municipal Commissioner Bhushan Gagrani, highlighting rising unrest and dissatisfaction inside the administration. They clarified that their objection was not directed at Chore personally, however at what they described as a rising pattern of appointing an OSD to an everyday DMC publish, thereby bypassing the established cadre hierarchy.
With Chore’s tenure coming to an finish on the shut of the month, the BMC administration issued a round on Tuesday assigning Gaikwad the extra cost of DMC to the MCO.
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