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Mayor owes Rs 4.5 lakh to BMC
Mayor Datta Dalvi used his official red-light Honda City but he has not yet paid up the bill of Rs 4,52,999.
Information obtained by TOI from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) under the Right to Information Act shows that Dalvi made as many as eight trips in eight months.
Municipal commissioner Johny Joseph allowed Dalvi to take the car along with an escort vehicle, a Tata Sumo, but made it clear that the mayor would have to foot the bill. Municipal secretary Mridul Joshi said recently that her department had not received any payment from Dalvi.
BMC officials also said the mayor took his armed bodyguard to his native town Oros, the district headquarters of Sindhudurg, though the bodyguard was not supposed to carry his revolver beyond city limits.
Leaders of the Shiv Sena, to which the mayor belongs, say most tours were for political purposes. Dalvi also tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to get wife Deepali's hotel (Mathura Gangai in Oros) regularised.
Supporters of revenue minister Narayan Rane protested against the use of the official car in September, following which Dalvi stopped taking the vehicle.
All BMC official cars are maintained by the transport division that reports to the chief engineer, solid waste management, R R Markandeya.
"We do not charge the mayor, deputy mayor and chairpersons of statutory committees when they use cars for official purposes even outside the city.
But, in this case, the mayor had taken his car to his native town after citing different reasons such as the inauguration of a temple. Many of his visits were political," Markandeya said.
A couple of years ago, then mayor Hareshwar Patil had refused to pay bills for using his car for private purposes.
When the solid waste management department sent him the bills, Patil demanded that the clerk concerned be suspended for sending them. BMC officials were not certain if Patil finally paid up.
Dalvi told TOI, "I was called by these sarpanches in my native town. The earlier mayors have got some concessions from the BMC for using the cars for personal use. I will pay if the BMC insists."
Commenting on the situation, the BMC's executive engineer S Rao said: "There is still enough time for his tenure to get over and the BMC can recover the money from him."
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