PANJIM: Goa Government Employees Union (GGEA) has decided to launch a campaign against blatant violation of transfer rules in government departments claiming this was impacting public service.
“There is no effective implementation of transfer guidelines. Top officers give silly reasons like ‘transfer in public interest’ to justify their decisions. This has affected the performance of several employees as they fail to offer proper public service,” GGEA President John Nazareth said on Wednesday.
The association pointed out that lower ranked employees are often pulled up for minor mistakes, issued memos, transferred or suspended thus demoralizing them. “No action is taken against top level bureaucrats,” he rued.
Nazareth also slammed Chief Secretary (acting) R K Srivastav for not paying heed to their demands concerning welfare of government employees and highlighted nuisances in various departments. “Ignoring our demands has raised discontent among government servants,” he said warning to conduct mock felicitation of officers failing to discharge their duties.
“We will take up the oppressions and atrocities meted out to us in the people’s court. GGEA on its own will frame chargesheets against such erring officers and issue them in public places. If the officer concerned does not turn up to explain the charges, we will hand over the chargesheet to a small effigy and distribute it to the public,” the association president added, reiterating the associations stand to intensify the campaign.
After its recent successful campaign opposing service extensions to 95 government servants who had attained superannuation, GGEA claimed the government now rethinks before employing retired employees/officers on contract. “We have learnt that out of the total, less than 25 are on service extensions,” he said.
GGEA also pointed out to alleged irregularities over closure of ITI Vasco, unsafe ITI building at Mapusa, fraud in purchase of yarn at TCP centres, purchase of unbranded sewing machines in ITIs and non admissibility of the post of Director in the SDCT among others.
