Naval Kishore Ram is new PMC chief
Pune:
Naval Kishore Ram
, former district collector of Pune, has been appointed the new commissioner and administrator of the
Pune Municipal Corporation
(PMC).
State govt announced his appointment on Wednesday. Ram will take over from
Rajendra Bhosale
who is set to retire on May 31.
He previously served as deputy secretary in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) after being transferred from his district collector position in 2020.
The 2008-batch IAS officer, Ram was at the helm of affairs to address the Covid-19 pandemic in Pune district and was selected under the Central Staffing Scheme. He joined as Pune collector in April 2018 and was in charge of both general and state assembly elections in Pune in 2019.
Before coming to Pune, Ram served as collector of Aurangabad and Beed districts.
Meanwhile, Bhosale took over charge as
PMC commissioner
in March 2024. Before that, he was district collector of Mumbai suburban. His previous posts include chief executive officer of Sangli zilla parishad and district collector of Solapur and Ahmednagar districts.
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