PANJIM: Amidst the controversy about Deputy Chief Minister Chandrakant Babu Kavlekar openly admitting that MLAs take money to dole out jobs, Congress leader Elvis Gomes on Monday went offensive against the government, alleging large scale corruption is what he called ‘rush of jobs against time’.
After a video showing Kavlekar making such a statement during his visit to Avedem, Quepem, went viral on social media, Gomes said that a flurry of activity in various government departments that were engaged in recruitments had resulted in abdication of regular work by staff, thus leaving the public high and dry.
Gomes said that the much talked about Staff Selection Commission was deliberately and with malafide intentions, rendered infructuous, in order to carry out a fraud in recruitments.
“Although Goa Lokayukta’s powers have been diluted by the government, it remains a good opportunity to bring on official record the extent to which the tentacles of corruption have spread under this government,” said Gomes, a former bureaucrat who has headed many departments in the past.
Gomes then drew attention to the judgment of the High Court in Jenipha Pinto vs State of Goa in writ petition and Pradnya Gaonkar and Tripti Parab in writ petition, which resulted in the exposure of a recruitment scam that made 32 youth jobless after five years of service for no fault of theirs. “Even the appeal before the Supreme Court was summarily dismissed,” he added.
“If Power Minister Nilesh Cabral is reluctant to order an investigation, the suspicion cannot be ruled out that it is to protect those responsible for this fiasco, which has led to bitterness among youth. There should have been action by now. Inaction shows nepotism is at work in this government,” said Gomes.
Large scare corruption in govt jobs, alleges Congress
