Explained: Behind the SC order allowing officers to continue running Gujarat local bodies Currently, most of the municipal corporations have senior bureaucrats appointed as Officers on Special Duty (OSD) under the Epidemic Disease and Disaster Management Acts, in charge of the Covid situation. Updated: December 13, 2020 8:43:36 am Following the SC order, the state directed the chief executive officers of the local bodies concerned to carry on daily functions but without taking policy decisions. A three-judge bench of Supreme Court Wednesday passed an order directing chief executive officers of local bodies to continue running the same till elections are held. The order came on an interlocutory application moved by Gujarat government seeking permission to appoint administrators in the local bodies where terms of the political executive body are ending this month and where the State Election Commission (SEC) had deferred elections due to the pandemic.