TEAM HERALD
PANJIM: In a major relief to women police sub inspector (PSI) aspirants, whose applications were rejected for want of driving licence; the department has dropped the condition asking them to re-apply for the vacancies.
The inclusion of driving licence as a pre-employment condition in the ongoing recruitment drive saw applications of nearly 360 women aspirants rejected on this ground. In the largest women police recruitment drive in the Goa Police force, the department is in the process of filling 300 vacancies comprising of 79 PSIs and 221 police constables.
Taking a sympathetic view, while also realising that fewer candidates will be left till the final stage of the recruitment process, the police brass decided to relax the existing Recruitment Rules clause.
“Only those candidates who were sent back in the applications’ scrutiny stage for want of driving licence can re-apply for the same posts. We want good competition among the candidates to join the force,” IGP Sunil Garg told Herald. “Newspapers advertisements have already been released across the State.”
Herald was the first to report that the department, for the first time, had made it compulsory for PSI aspirants to have a driving licence. Owing to this clause, 360-odd out of around 764 applicants for the post of PSI were knocked out in the first stage of the recruitment drive.
