Team Herald
PANJIM: The Goa government has started the process of verifying pay fixation of its employees and will recover the money from those if found paid more.
The Finance Department has issued an order asking all the heads of department to complete verification of all the employees within a period of three months from the date of the issuance of the order and the excess payment detected if any, be recovered without contravening the office memorandum.
The heads of department have also been asked to submit a certificate within next three months specifying that the pay fixation of all the staff of their department/s is verified and there are no errors.
Till then the departments have been directed not to entertain any proposals for waiver of recovery unless the certificate to that effect is provided by head of department or head of office for employees within their purview without contravening the guidelines enshrined in the office memorandum.
In September last year, the Finance Department had issued a similar order asking all government departments to carry out verification of all fixation of pay at all intervening Pay Commissions/Upgradation/promotions etc in respect of all their employees within a period of six months from the date of issuance of the order so as to avoid cases of excess payment arising due to unintentional mistakes /administrative errors and to send a certificate within the six months specifying that the pay fixation of all the staff within the purview of their department is verified and that there are no errors.
But since most of the departments had failed to complete the exercise, the Finance Department has now issued another order asking them to complete the exercise within next three months.
