{
  "id": 2120819,
  "title": "RTI Exposes Political Push In Mumbai's BMC Engineer Transfers, Postings & Promotions; Activist Urges CM Fadnavis To Ban Recommendations",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/rti-exposes-political-push-in-mumbais-bmc-engineer-transfers-postings",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-20T10:44:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/rti-exposes-political-push-in-mumbais-bmc-engineer-transfers-postings-promotions-activist-urges-cm-fadnavis-to-ban-recommendations"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Mumbai: Political interference in transfers, postings and promotions of BMC engineers has come under scrutiny after Right to Information (RTI) documents revealed recommendation letters from ministers, MPs and MLAs, including representatives from the ruling party and Opposition. The RTI records also showed that MPs and MLAs from outside Mumbai had issued recommendation letters. The FPJ tried to…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}