Two additional commissioners of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have been transferred following an Election Commission order. The transferred officials are P Velrasu, who holds charge of projects and Ashwini Bhide, who holds charge of eastern suburbs and other departments.

Thane Municipal Commissioner Abhijit Bangar (2008 batch) has been appointed in place of Velrasu (2002 batch). Bhide (1995 batch) has been replaced by Amit Sainik (2007 batch).  Bhide will hold full-time charge as managing director of Mumbai Metro Railway Corporation. On Monday, the Election Commission (EC) ordered the State Chief Secretary to transfer Civic Chief I S Chahal along with these two additional commissioners who complete their three-year tenure in the post and submit the report till Tuesday evening.