Team Herald
PANJIM: After the Electricity department, it is now the Directorate of Health Services (DHS) which is in the news with regards to recruitments. Seven out of nine candidates selected for the post of pharmacist hails from Health Minister Vishwajit Rane’s Sattari taluka.
There are total eight candidates selected under General category which include six from Sattari and also one of the two shortlisted under Other Backward Class (OBC).
The selected candidate list, which had gone viral on social media groups, has two candidates from Bardez taluka in the waiting list.
The selected list figures names of Pretesh Babu Shetye (Taleigao-Panaji), Rajlaxmi alias Radhika Shyam Gawas (Keri-Sanqulim), Jyoti Patil (Ponda), Arohi Gaonkar (Sattari), Deelip Gawas (Sattari), Bhakti Wadkar (Sattari), Rubia Ansari (Sattari) and Akshata Naik (Sattari) under general category.
In the OBC category the selected candidates are Kishori Usgaonkar (Sattari) and Nivedita Paliyekar (Bardez).
As per information available from the department sources, a total of 12 posts for pharmacist were advertised around six months back, which included eight general category and two each OBC and Schedule Tribe (ST). “Total 450 had applied for the posts. No applications were received from ST,” sources said.
Sources confirmed that candidates for eight general posts and two OBC posts have been selected while there are two in the waiting list comprising one each under general and one in OBC.
Reacting to the same, Health Minister said that the selection has been done on merit list and every paper is available for public scrutiny. “The list is available on the notice board of the DHS. We have not hidden anything as we are clean,” he said adding ‘I don’t interfere in recruitment processes.
Rane said of the total 25 candidates selected for the post of pharmacist in last one year for DHS and Goa medical college and hospital (GMC) only eight are from Sattari. “We have selected people from Panaji, Ponda, Merces, Salcete. You can go and see,” he added.
Minister further claimed the selected candidates from Sattari have vast experience as they are already working in various private hospitals and pharmacies.
Meanwhile, it is been learnt the candidates, who failed to get selected, are likely to approach Lokayukta and Crime Branch seeking investigation into illegal recruitments.
