BMRCL chief Maheshwar Rao is also new Palike boss

Bengaluru: Senior IAS officer and Namma Metro chief M Maheshwar Rao will now also head the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP). .The state government on Monday placed Rao, a 1995-batch IAS officer, in the concurrent charge of the BBMP chief commissioner.

.Tushar Girinath, the 1993-batch IAS officer and the BBMP's outgoing chief commissioner, has been given three responsibilities: he is now the additional chief secretary of the home and urban development departments, as well as the BBMP administrator. .



His predecessor, SR Umashankar, is retiring on superannuation on April 30..