Even because the variety of senior officers within the fireplace providers in Gujarat have diminished to alarming ranges, the remaining officers are actually receiving interim fees of prime posts and bigger jurisdictions.
Living proof is a Station Officer (STO) being given the interim cost as Chief Fireplace Officer (CFO) Rajkot Fireplace and Emergency Providers (RFES) final week.
STO Amit Dave was on Saturday requested to take cost as interim CFO of Rajkot metropolis, confirmed Municipal Company Commissioner Devang P Desai. The publish had been vacant for the reason that earlier interim CFO, Anil Maru, was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on August 12 for allegedly searching for a bribe of Rs1.80 lakh. Dave had earlier recused himself from holding the extra cost as Deputy CFO of Rajkot within the instant aftermath of the sport zone tragedy that claimed 27 lives.
This improvement got here weeks after the City Growth & City Housing Growth division (UDUHD) requested Mithun Mistry, the interim Extra CFO of Ahmedabad Metropolis, to take further cost as CFO of Rajkot metropolis. Nonetheless, sources mentioned that the Ahmedabad Municipal Commissioner had not relieved Mistry from Ahmedabad, leaving Rajkot within the lurch.
“Mistry leaving Ahmedabad to take cost in Rajkot was untenable”, mentioned sources within the authorities, due to the ten prime posts within the Ahmedabad Fireplace and Emergency Providers (AFES), seven are vacant and Mistry is without doubt one of the solely three substantial officers in service.
Rajkot Commissioner Devang P Desai confirmed that this was the rationale that Amit Dave had been given cost of your complete metropolis’s fireplace service.
One other main publish left vacant after Anil Maru’s arrest was that of the Regional Fireplace Officer (RFO) of Rajkot Area.
The Indian Express has now learnt that the RFO of Bhavnagar Area, Pravin Saraswat, has been appointed the interim RFO of Rajkot Area as effectively, making him the fireplace officer with the biggest jurisdiction in Gujarat — controlling 10 of 33 districts, the whole lot of the Saurashtra-Kutch space.His jurisdiction as RFO of Bhavnagar included the districts of Bhavnagar, Amreli, Gir-Somnath and Junagadh. However the interim cost of Rajkot Area has now made him liable for six extra districts together with Rajkot, Jamnagar, Dwarka, Morbi, Kutch and Porbandar. Notably, his jurisdiction is even greater than Anil Maru, who was the fireplace head of six districts and a metropolis.
Recruitments underway
Sources within the Gujarat State Fireplace Prevention Providers (GSFPS) informed the Indian Categorical that the recruitment of 5 Deputy RFOs is underway and is more likely to be accomplished and appointment orders could also be given later in September.
Additional, interviews for the recruitment of an Assistant Director of GSFPS have additionally been scheduled later in September.
Notably, the GSFPS has additionally despatched the Gujarat Public Service Fee (GPSC) a recruitment request to fill the posts of two RFOs, one for Rajkot Area, and the opposite for the Headquarters. Interviews and choice are scheduled later this month.
In the meantime, the posts of CFOs in six main cities corresponding to Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Junagadh, Gandhinagar and Bhavnagar are vacant. The publish is technically stuffed in Rajkot with arrested CFO Ilesh Kher at present underneath suspension, however successfully vacant. KK Bishnoi of Jamnagar stays the one full time CFO in Gujarat.