Scuffle in Deputy Engineer's Chamber: Slapping Echoes Again in Municipal Corporation, Assistant Engineer Attacked

In a serious incident, an assistant engineer working in the East Zone of Rajkot Municipal Corporation was attacked by a subcontractor. Manish Vekaria, a subcontractor working on the paving block, was agitated and attacked Dhaval B Golania, assistant engineer of ward number 18, in the chamber of the deputy engineer. Nearly a dozen incidents of assault on officials, including former commissioner Mukesh Kumar Sources in the municipal employees' association said that municipal commissioner Mukesh Kumar was attacked in the past and a police complaint was lodged against BJP leaders and he was acquitted. Since then, there have been about a dozen incidents of assault on employees working in the municipal corporation. Officials and employees of the Solid Waste Management Branch, construction officials and officials of the Space Investment Branch were attacked. They are afraid to complain against the contractor when he is involved in attacks on officers and employees and has political support. In the past, there have been incidents of deputy engineer PC Joshi committing suicide due to torture by a contractor. But due to lack of support, the matter does not reach the police station. A Bahubali corporator had thrown crackers at a health department official some time ago and the officer also reached the police station. But another office-bearer called him and threatened him that if he complained, such an incident would happen again, so keep coming back. Terrified by this, the officers returned without complaining. The engineers avoided making a presentation to him as the agency's managers and subcontractor were close to the mayor Following the incident of assault on the assistant engineer, all the engineers gathered at the municipal corporation and made a fierce representation to the deputy municipal commissioner to take action against the contractor. After the decision was taken to make a presentation to the municipal commissioner tomorrow, there was a discussion among the engineers on whether to make a presentation to the mayor or not, in which the managers of the agency and the subcontractor avoided making the presentation as they were close to Mayor Nayanaben Pedhadia. It was also discussed that after the incident of the attack, the concerned officials were instructed not to reach the police. The complaint has to be made by the victim, if I have given an application, legal action will be taken The association has read me a memorandum regarding the incident of assault on the assistant engineer. In this case, the victim has been told that they can file a police complaint if they want to. Whatever legal action will be taken regarding the application will be taken. > Pathik Patel, Deputy Municipal Commissioner, Rajkot Municipal Corporation