PORVORIM: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday justified that the moratorium on new recruitments imposed in November last year was not due to financial burden, but to avoid job-rush witnessed during the polls.
“Normally when the elections approach, there is rush of recruitments just like when the financial year comes to an end, there is rush of expenditure. Before the polls in 2012, there were complaints and cases that predated appointment letters were given to the candidates. So this time, government decided to stop the rush of recruitments,” he told the House during the Question Hour.
The CM also revealed that the recruitments ahead of the 2017 polls were possibly not required in the departments concerned. “The recruitment rush is only for election purpose. It may not be as per the requirement of the departments,” he added.
In November 2016, the recruitment of over 1,200 personnel to various government departments and grant-in-aid institutions were kept in abeyance by then chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar. The present government under Parrikar as CM issued another memorandum on July 11, 2017 superseding the previous memorandum.
“The memorandum stated that all vacancies which were advertised but where further process of conduct of examination, competency test, proficiency test and/or viva as applicable was not undertaken, should be treated as cancelled. In other cases wherein these procedures were carried out, were permitted to complete the procedure except in matter of faulty job recruitment,” he said adding, “One-two cases were noted wherein procedure was half-way and incorrect. These have to start again and it is permitted.”
His reply was to a question tabled by Congress legislator Jennifer Monserrate seeking to know whether there was an actual ban either in writing or verbal due to which all recruitments were kept pending.
In another decision, the Goa government is set to embark on recruitment spree of the children of freedom fighters and appointment on compassionate grounds with Parrikar assuring to carry out the task in “one-shot.”
“The (recruitment) of (children of) freedom fighters and compassionate appointments will be done in one-shot. We have decided to analyze and do a one-shot exercise of the cases wherein appointments are approved but pending. This might take 2-3 months but I am trying to clear all the 362 appointments on compassionate grounds by year-end,” he told the House.
