India, Dec. 5 -- In a significant administrative reshuffle ahead of the long-pending Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections, additional municipal commissioner (eastern suburbs) Dr Amit Saini has been transferred. His next posting is yet to be announced.

The state government has appointed Avinash Dhakne, a 2010-batch IAS officer and currently member secretary of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), to replace him. Dhakne, 55, who was transferred from MPCB on October 8 and kept waiting for a new assignment, has previously served as Jalgaon collector, Solapur municipal commissioner, managing director of Goregaon Film City and later at MPCB.

Saini, a 2007-batch IAS officer and a trained medical doctor, has been under ...