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IAS Officer Resigns as Mysuru Municipal Commissioner, Alleges Harassment Over Covid Handling

PTI
Jun 04, 2021
Shilpa Nag said there is no conducive atmosphere for her to discharge her duties.

Mysuru: IAS officer Shilpa Nag on Thursday announced her resignation as municipal commissioner of Mysuru, alleging harassment by the deputy commissioner — the district’s top bureaucrat — over management of the pandemic.

In a press conference, Nag said, “Today I am resigning. There is no conducive atmosphere for me to discharge my duties. No one should ever face a situation like this.”

Rejecting the allegation of harassment as untrue, deputy commissioner of Mysuru district Rohini Sindhuri said, “The Mysuru City Corporation was submitting unsigned and contradictory ward-wise COVID-19 figures on new cases, deaths and active cases. I had ordered that same be rectified.”

Sindhuri also said that Nag had of late stopped attending coronavirus review meetings convened by her.

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