December 13, 2024 10:27 PM.
In Maharashtra, Ashwini Bhide (IAS), the Managing Director of Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC), has been appointed as the Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis.
She has been directed to assume charge of the post from Brijesh Singh (IAS) immediately.
Additionally, she has been instructed to continue handling her current responsibilities at MMRC until further orders. Ashwini Bhide, an IAS officer of the 1995 batch, has been serving as the Managing Director of MMRC since 2015.
Bhide was removed from the post of managing director of the MMRC and transferred as the additional municipal commissioner in the BMC in 2020 by the Uddhav Thackeray-led government, after she fought to implement the Aarey project. The MVA government had stayed the construction of the Metro3 crashed project being developed in the Aarey Colony citing protection of forest cover there.