Senior Shiv Sena leader and former Maharashtra minister Ravindra Waikar was on Tuesday appointed the chief coordinator in the Chief Minister's Office (CMO), a post where he will handle public grievances.
This is for the first time that such a post has been created in the Maharashtra CMO.
Waikar, as the chief coordinator in the CMO, will have a cabinet minister's rank, according to a government order (GO) issued here.
The GO said Waikar will be responsible for handling grievances, complaints of members of the public and receive representations from people who come to Mantralaya (state secretariat) to meet Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.
He will also coordinate with the district and divisional level CMOs set up recently, it said.
The order said, "An experienced and senior person was required for the post for coordination."