This story is from September 30, 2020

Yavatmal babus revolt, want ‘arrogant’ collector transferred

Yavatmal babus revolt, want ‘arrogant’ collector transferred
Yavatmal: All class I, class II and gazetted officers of various departments in Yavatmal district have together demanded the transfer of district collector M Devendar Singh, alleging he is egotistical and insults his subordinate officers. All the unions have supported the 90 striking doctors, staffers and paramedical employees at various hospitals under the district health officer (DHO) of Yavatmal Zilla Parishad.
Surprisingly, DHO Dr Balasaheb Chavan too has joined the agitators and submitted his resignation to express anguish and protest.
The doctors had resigned en bloc before zilla parishad chief executive officer Dr Shreekrishna Panchal on Monday. They were also protesting the arrogant behaviour of the collector, use of unparliamentary words, and insulting behaviour without considering situation.
“We have support of all officers, including BDOs of panchayat samitis, chief officers of municipal councils, SDOs, tehsildars and naib tehsildars in the district,” said Dr Dharmesh Chavan, ex-president of the doctor’s union.
Dr Vijay Akolkar, president of the union, said they have received support letters from other districts too.
“Deputy director Dr Farooqui has come to Yavatmal from Akola, and requested us to join a meet with the collector today. But we refused, as the collector refused to talk to us on Monday,” Dr Vijay said, adding divisional commissioner Piyush Singh has invited them for discussion at his Amravati office. A delegation has already left for Amravati.
The doctors are on indefinite strike from Tuesday, with 30 doctors and other staffers sitting in the pandal erected at Azad Maidan. They said Covid-19 works would affected adversely because of the arrogance of the collector.

Even the collector’s revenue department officers have submitted a joint representation to divisional commissioner for mass transfer to any other district to protest the insulting attitude of the collector.
TOI has a copy of the joint representation signed by 16 tehsildars and a few subdivisional magistrates working in 16 tehsils of Yavatmal. The representation was written on August 20. The 16 tehsildars had earlier too submitted a representation to the divisional commissioner expressing unwillingness to work under the present collector.
The tehsildars have listed four reasons for their resignation; insulting words used by the collector in meetings, holding tehsildars responsible for every minor lapse, threats of suspension and adverse CR, holding tehsildars responsible for lapses in PM Kisan Yojana run by agriculture department, and show cause notices to tehsildars on baseless reports in local dailies.
Talathis too have boycotted sand anti-smuggling operations because of inadequate security arrangements. They were also summoned to the collector’s office, and kept waiting till 5pm.
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) too has supported the agitation. “Government of Maharashtra and its officers have been treating doctors badly. Ninety gazetted medical officers in Yavatmal have resigned because of the irresponsible behaviour by the collector. Administrative officers are behaving badly with private doctors as well,” said Dr Avinash Bhondve, Maharashtra state president of IMA.
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