SRINAGAR: In a bid to nullify the legal challenge to the appointment of the incumbent commissioner of Srinagar Municipal Corporation, the Jammu and Kashmir Government has done away with the statutory requirement of 15 years of service for an officer to be posted as the administrative head of SMC and Jammu Municipal Corporation.
The Housing and Urban Development department has issued an executive order to do away with the requirement of 15 years of service for any officer to be posted as commissioner of SMC and Jammu Municipal Corporation.
The order has been issued by invoking a provision in the Municipal Corporation Act, which empowers the government to issue executive orders to remove difficulties in the implementation of the law. According to the order, the government shall post a suitable officer as commissioner of the civic bodies irrespective of his/ her years of service—(KNO)
