Mumbai: Ministers, MPs, MLAs lobby for their men in key departments

Updated On: 06 January, 2015 06:41 AM IST | | Laxman Singh

<p>An RTI request has revealed that various officials asked for transfers to the lucrative Building Proposal dept and SRA by bringing in recommendation letters from politicians; civic chief says such letters do not matter</p>

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Mumbai: Ministers, MPs, MLAs lobby for their men in key departments

Prominent political leaders, from Union Ministers to MLAs, have lobbied to put their men in key positions in crucial departments dealing with real estate projects both in the civic body and the slum rehabilitation body.

NCP water resources minister Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar, then union minister Harish Rawat (centre) are some of the politicians who wrote recommendation letters for getting engineers transferred to Building Proposal department and SRA. (Extreme right) Vilas Khilari was arrested in October for taking a bribe. File pics