IAS officer Tukaram transferred for the third time in 4 years span

Mumbai, Feb 09: IAS officer Tukaram Mundhe has been transferred again. The 43-year-old was serving as the chairman and managing director of Pune Municipal Transport Corporation Limited has now been posted as the municipal commissioner of Nashik. Within a span of four years, Tukaram has been transferred three times.

The government officers will have a tenure of three years but that is not the case of Tukarama as within 11 months he got his fresh transfer from the post of Navi Mumbai municipal commissioner.

Mundhe, who was the district collector of Solapur, was appointed to the post in Navi Mumbai in May 2016. In Solapur, Mundhe had cracked down on officials involved in the irrigation scam. He had also taken on the local sand mafia, owing to which he was attacked in January 2016, but escaped unhurt. He was shunted out of Solapur in 17 months owing to pressure from politicians, sources said.

"The government has to decide on all this [frequent transfers and the allegations against him]. I think I have got a bigger opportunity. I am going to Nashik and will join soon," Mundhe said, in response to his fresh transfer order.