Sanjay Sethi is already an ex-officio subordinate of the corp successful his capableness arsenic Transport Secretary.
The Maharashtra authorities has appointed IAS serviceman Sanjay Sethi arsenic the president of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC). This volition beryllium the archetypal clip that a bureaucrat volition helm the that which is mostly reserved for a nationalist representative.
Sethi, who serves arsenic the Transport Secretary and holds the fertile of Additional Chief Secretary, was named MSRTC president done a gazette notification issued connected Wednesday. He was appointed aft the resignation of Bharat Gogawale, who has been inducted into the authorities cabinet.
Sethi is already an ex-officio subordinate of the corp successful his capableness arsenic Transport Secretary. Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik had precocious written to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, urging the assignment of a caller president for the corporation, pursuing his Karnataka sojourn to survey their transport system.
MSRTC is 1 of India’s largest nationalist transport undertakings, operating astir 14,000 buses and serving astir 55 lakh passengers regular crossed the state. The corp employs astir 90,000 workers and has been facing fiscal difficulties, including rising losses, an aging fleet, worker strikes, and declining ridership.
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