State appoints BMC chief Chahal as administrator

With the five-year term of the BMC house of 227 corporators ending on the midnight of March 7, 2022, the state government appointed BMC commissioner I S Chahal as the administrator on Tuesday.

- Richa Pinto

Mumbai: The commissioner has been directed to take charge immediately. All powers of the house of corporators will be vested in the administrator. An IAS officer of the 1989 batch, Chahal was the principal secretary of the urban development department before taking over as BMC chief from Praveen Pardeshi in May 2020.

Asked what the course of operation will be in the coming days, Chahal said they are working on it. “It will take 4-5 days to set things up,” he said. The last time the BMC had an administrator was in the 1980s.