The municipal commissioner of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) took over as its administrator earlier this week as the Trinamul Congress-led board of administrators that was running the day-to-day activities of the civic body got dissolved.

The dissolution of the boards of administrators running urban local bodies took place across Bengal after the Election Commission of India (ECI) restrained political appointees from serving as administrators of municipal corporations, whose term has ended, till the model code of conduct for the election is in force.

Debashis Ghosh, the BMC municipal commissioner, took over as administrator from Monday.

Krishna Chakraborty, who was the chairperson of the board of administrators, stepped down as did all the ward coordinators.

According to a senior official, problems will now be redressed directly by civic officials.

The respective ward offices will act as the first point of contact for residents. In case the problem persists, they can visit their borough office and bring the matter to the notice of the officials there. If the problem is still not solved then the resident can visit the concerned department at Poura Bhavan.

According to Ghosh, his focus areas would be management of Covid-19 and to ensure that the maximum number of people get the vaccine. “We are trying to make the vaccine centres run by the civic body more popular so that we can innoculate the maximum number of people,” said Ghosh.