11-06-2025
Mohammed Nazeer posted back as MUDA Commissioner
The State government has posted back for the second time Mohammed Nazeer, Joint Director (selection grade), Directorate of Economics and Statistics as the Commissioner of Mangaluru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) by replacing Noor Zahara Khanum.
The government issued a notification to this effect on June 10.
Mr. Nazeer was the Commissioner of MUDA earlier too. He was also the Commissioner of Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) and Managing Director of Mangaluru Smart City Ltd (MSCL).
When he was the Commissioner of MUDA, the authority had published 'Mangaluru Darshana' in three volumes in 2016. It was a book on socio-political and cultural history of Mangaluru. It took 18 months to prepare 2,200-page volumes. The work on the project had begun in August, 2014. The MUDA had published the book on the occasion of the authority completing 150 years.
Scholar and former Vice-Chancellor of Kannada University, Hampi and Karnataka State Open University, Mysuru, B.A. Vivek Rai was the chief-editor of the book.