Allege Yashwant Khaire's appointment as garden superintendent in 1980s bent rules
Allege Yashwant Khaire's appointment as garden superintendent in 1980s bent rulesu00a0
There seems to be no end to the troubles associated with the chair of garden superintendent in the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC).
After Ashok Ghorpade, who was suspended for allegedly molesting and raping a 30-year-old woman living in Bibwewadi, it's the turn of former Garden Superintendent Yashwant Khaire to face the ire of RTI activists. The allegation against him is that he got the job in the PMC by furnishing wrong information. RTI activists have asked the PMC Commissioner Mahesh Zagade to conduct an in-depth inquiry against Khaire.
A complaint has been made in this regard by RTI activists Vinod Jain, Vaibhav Gandhi, Juneja Indrajeet Singh and Nitin Chheda. They have alleged that Khaire's appointment as Garden Superintend was illegal, as the PMC had not advertised about the vacant post in the local newspapers.
u00a0Between 1983 and 1987, Khaire was working in the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) as garden supervisor. He was then directly promoted as the garden superintendent in the PMC. "How a garden supervisor can become a garden superintendent?" Jain asked. "It is like making the compounder a doctor."
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Jain and others have also demanded that Khaire surrender his PMC salary of 20 years (from 1987 to 2008). "We have already urged the Pune wing of the Anti Corruption Bureau to probe and investigate the matter," he said.
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Jain has made an appeal to the State Information Officer that the PMC had lost the file related to Khaire's appointment. "I got the required information from the PCMC about Khaire where he was working as garden supervisor. Then why is the PMC not giving full information about Khaire and his work tenure of 20 years," he asked.
Chheda, a human right activist, said that he had made an application to the Deputy Police Commissioner on November 7, 2007 to stop Khaire and confiscate his visa and passport. Khaire had asked for Voluntary Retirement Scheme and was about to leave for Japan after January 3, 2008. "That was the time when many corruption cases in the PMC were revealed," he said.
Bhanudas Mane, deputy commissioner (Garden) said that he was not hiding any information. There is a record of the 20 years and it will take time to compile the information. Nothing is missing from the PMC record," he said.
