IAS officer Kailash Jadhav has been shunted out from the post of Nashik Municipal Corporation chief, reportedly over the civic body’s alleged failure to ensure compliance of a rule that calls for builders constructing residential houses on an acre of plot to also construct 20 per cent affordable units and hand them over to Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA). Jadhav was unceremoniously transferred earlier this week, reportedly on the directions of Maharashtra Legislative Council Chairman Ramraje Nimbalkar.
Jadhav, however, refuted the allegations and said his transfer had nothing to do with the issue of granting OCs.
Opposition leader in Legislative Council, Pravin Darekar, had raised the issue in the Legislative Council on Monday by moving a Calling Attention Motion. He alleged that since the last nine years, the Nashik Municipal Corporation had granted part Occupation Certificates (OCs) to many housing projects without ensuring transfer of 20 per cent of reserved flats to MHADA for affordable housing.
Darekar said 20 per cent flats under the housing schemes in an area of one acre has to be reserved for the low-income group (LIG) while the remaining can be sold in the open market by builders. The reserved 20 per cent flats have to be transferred to MHADA, however, OCs were being issued without ensuring the flats were transferred to the Authority, alleged Darekar.
It was alleged that failure to do so has caused the state a loss of 3,500 units,…
