MUMBAI: How many days was chief minister Devendra Fadnavis in office? No one knows. A Right to Information (RTI) query filed by Jeetendra Ghadge found that the state has no information about Fadnavis’ attendance.

In February, Ghadge filed an application regarding Fadnavis’ routine attendance and the details of functions that he had attended.

“Although there is nothing controversial about the information, the CM’s office passed the buck to general administration department (GAD), which later passed it to the CM’s office,” said Ghadge.

Eventually during the hearing in the commission the public information officer (PIO) of CM’s office Mokashi said that no records regarding the Fadnavis’ attendance is maintained by his office, while the data on foreign visits was maintained by the GAD. “This is in sharp contrast to the fact that similar information of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, including the expenses of his foreign visits and details of his attendance, is in public domain,” added Ghadge.

“The Maharashtra government is proud of its policy of transparency but when it comes to its own office its hardly transparent. Interestingly, both the GAD and CM’s office are under Fadnavis,” he added.

A senior official from chief minister’s office told TOI that the CM, other ministers and staffers working in the ministers’ offices do not have a system of punching attendance cards. “There were no records of attendance of the CM, other ministers and their staffers. But they have to work at any point of time. Whenever the CM goes out of town at least two senior officials accompany him for official work,” he said. The official also added that Fadnavis has a work station at his official residence Varsha, where he convenes meetings.

