Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar while as the Leader of the Opposition
use to raise a ruckus over extensions in service and contract appointments
being given to retiring government officers by the then government.
Now, over the last two and a half years, he has been selectively doling out
extensions to his preferred officials. As nobody is indispensable there
needs to be a total embargo on these extensions in service and contract
appointments as it amounts to a cruel and grave injustice to the young
unemployed and those young officers awaiting promotion. Infact the
government needs to revert the retirement age from 60 to 58 and bring hope
to the young unemployed.
Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had promised a Parivartan and good
governance but he seems to be going out of the way to secure the interests
of his family and coterie of friends. Earlier this year at the Goa Medical
College he gave the Professor of Radiology Dr. Mahesh Sardessai a year’s
extension despite the others in line Dr. Jeevan Vernekar, Dr. Sanjay
Sardessai and Dr (Mrs.) Renny Furtado all Associate Professors being
extremely competent to head the department. But Dr Mahesh Sardessai being the
father-in-law of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s elder son Utpal is the
first and only Professor at GMC to reap an extension.
We also all know how Manohar Parrikar after taking over as Chief Minister
very swiftly appointed another of his relative Kurupati Dwarkanath Row to
the very high constitutional post as the Chairman of Goa Public Service
Commission. Row is a relative of Manohar Parrikar’s younger son Abhijat as
well as the Chief Minister’s brother Avdhut.
Leaders who live out on nepotism have no chance to build a culture of
trust. For the sake of Goa, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar needs to look
beyond his Parivar.
Aires Rodrigues
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