Your Feedback Now Has a Place in Every Government Office: Maharashtra Makes ‘Listening to Citizens’ Official Policy

The Maharashtra Government has made it mandatory for every government office to collect and act upon citizen feedback. From staff behaviour to service delivery, your experience will now be officially recorded and used for administrative reforms and policy decisions.

Maharashtra Govt Tightens Control Over MHADA Land Allotment, Forms High-Level Ministerial Panel

The Maharashtra government has formed a powerful Cabinet Sub-Committee to decide MHADA land allotments under Rule 16, centralising control over residential and commercial plots and replacing the earlier 2022 panel.

Maharashtra Govt Reiterates Policy: No Office Should Function on Rent; Forms Committee to Allot Space in GST Bhavan

Reaffirming its policy to eliminate rented offices, the Maharashtra government has formed a committee to allocate vacant space in GST Bhavan, Wadala, to state departments. The move aims to cut rental expenditure and optimise government-owned infrastructure.

Rule Says Only Engineer From Recognised University Can be Navi Mumbai’s Additional City Engineer, Govt Finds None, Tweaks Rule To Fill Post

A new Maharashtra GR reveals that NMMC has no Executive Engineer with a recognised engineering degree, forcing the government to tweak rules and promote Arvind Shinde despite lacking the mandatory qualification. The decision raises serious questions about recruitment and engineering standards in Navi Mumbai.

Maharashtra Govt Escalates Pressure on SRA: ‘Immediate Action’ Ordered on Chawl First-Floor Regularisation Ahead of BMC Polls

In a sharp November 2025 letter, the Maharashtra government has ordered the Slum Rehabilitation Authority to immediately regularise first-floor tenements in old Mumbai chawls and start issuing rehab flats to long-excluded families. With BMC elections approaching, the Mahayuti alliance is pushing hard to settle a decades-old grievance of lakhs of chawl residents before they go to the polls. Residents and political leaders have welcomed the move, calling it a “historic correction of injustice”.