Gujarat govt appoints municipal commissioners to all 9 municipal corporations declared today

The Gujarat government has announced the appointment of municipal commissioners in connection with the new municipal corporations declared on Wednesday. After giving the status of municipal corporation to Mehsana, Gandhidham, Vapi, Navsari, Anand, Surendranagar, Nadiad, Morbi and Porbandar on Wednesday, the General Administration Department of the state government declared the names of nine officers of IAS/GAS cadre as administrators there.

The state government has transferred IAS/GAS officers currently working on various posts and placed them under the Urban Development and Urban Housing Department for appointment as municipal commissioners, including Swapnil Khare as municipal commissioner of Morbi Municipal Corporation, Milind Bapna as municipal commissioner of Anand Municipal Corporation, Mirant Jatin Parikh as Nadiad Municipal Commissioner, Yogesh Chaudhary as municipal commissioner of Vapi Municipal Corporation, Ravindra Gyaneshwar Khatale as Mehsana Municipal Commissioner, G H Solanki as Surendranagar Municipal Commissioner, Dev Chaudhary as Navsari Municipal Commissioner, H J Prajapati as Porbandar Municipal Commissioner, Porbandar, and M P Pandya as Gandhidham Municipal Commissioner.

The order was signed by Additional Chief Secretary, GAD, Kamal Dayani.

According to state government spokesperson Rushikesh Patel, the notification of the new nine municipal corporations will be issued today or tomorrow. Now more than 50% of the area of ​​Gujarat will be urban area. An administrator will be placed in the new municipal corporation by implementing the Larger Urban Area, Municipal Act, 1949. Elections will be held under the administrator.