Team Herald
MARGAO: The fate of the 13 candidates recommended by Goa Public Service Commission (GPSC) hangs in balance as a writ petition is due to come up for hearing on Monday, January 11 against the recruitment procedure.
At present, the State administration is taking a severe beating due to many officers being burdened with additional charges of various departments. Some of these include municipal councils, administrative officer for Hospicio Hospital, Margao, deputy collectors/sub-divisional magistrates/additional deputy collectors, deputy director of panchayats, electricity department, Goa Medical College among others. The nullifying of this procedure in 2011 and now the petition against the GPSC recruitment has led to shortage of officers.
The demand for efficient functioning of several departments has been made by several people from North and South Goa on several occasions. The Government has been criticised for the delay for over two years. The recruitment of these junior scale officers becomes most essential and of utmost priority to correct the hitches as the Right to Public Service Guarantee Act now mandates the government to deliver in time.
However, in a petition at the High Court, one of the candidates Nilesh Bhagwant Naik is seeking justice on technical grounds, praying that the interviews be re-conducted as they were not video graphed under Rule 6 of the Goa Civil Service (10th Amendment) 2015.
According to highly placed sources in the GPSC, it is learnt that none of the Service Commissions, including the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), have a rule for video-graphing interviews.
