With Tawde on leave, whom will DMA depute to run MMC affairs?

MARGAO, MAY 6
All eyes are focused on the Director of Municipal Administration as the newly-appointed Margao Municipal Council Chief Officer Y B Tawde has proceeded on leave from Friday.
In the past, the DMA used to deputy A-Grade Officer Prasanna Acharya – who holds the post of South Goa Additional Collector – as a stop gap arrangement whenever the MMC Chief Officer proceeded on leave.
But, much water has flown down the River Sal since the last three months and it is an open secret that relationship between the Margao Municipal Councillors and Acharya has hit rock bottom after he presided over the affairs of the Civic body for a brief period.
In fact, the Margao City Fathers, especially the ruling group, feels that the outgoing Chief Officer Acharya let down the Councillors by raising the bogey of corruption against them without divulging the names of the corrupt councillors involved in extorting money from the builders.
As things stand today, sources in the know said the DMA has two options, one to hand over the charge of MMC Chief Officer to the District Magistrate G P Naik, who had in the past presided over the affairs of the Civic body for quite some time.
The second option is to hand over the charge to the Mormugao Municipal Chief Officer to fill up the vaccum left by Tawde, who will resume duty only on Thursday next.