Succumbing to the pressures from its alliance partner Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Maharasthra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan finally transferred upright and dynamic district collector of Beed district Sunil Kendrekar.

This is the second time, government has transferred Kendrekar from Beed. On the previous occasion in February this year, CM Chavan had to bow down to immense public pressure and withdraw the transfer order.

However this time, government preempted public outcry and kept the transfer orders under wraps and the news about his transfer became public when his successor Navalkishore Ram took charge as district collector on Thursday.

Kendrekar's 17 month tenure as Beed district collector has etched into the minds of the common public due to his crackdown on illegal constructions, making the process of drought relied transparent and eliminate its misuse political middlemen, crackdown on black marketing of Public Distribution System, crackdown on agents at Regional Transport Office, crackdown on sand mafia and the list seems to quite long as he also dealt with the long pending disputes originating from compensation to land acquired for projects.

NCP was among the political parties who had opposed Kendrekar the most. However, NCP was helpless as neither the revenue department to which district collectors report to was with them and Kendrekar owing to his rank of district collector his transfer could be made only by the Chief Minister. This time around, NCP ensured the collector Kendrekar got transferred from Beed.

However People are enraged as the minimum tenure of government officials is 2 years and Kendrekar had only completed 17 months of his tenure. Individuals, activists and organisations in Beed have again called a Bandh on Friday to demand the reinstatement of Kendrekar as the district collector. Kendrekar has been asked to take charge as the Chief Executive Officer of City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) at Aurangabad.