The interviews held to recruit government staff are a farce. The candidates are in fact chosen and finalized much before even the letters of interviews go out to the aspiring candidates. Merit and competency is all irrelevant with Ministers calling the shots. The Heads of departments have to be blamed for not having the spine to tell the Ministers that all recruitment should be on merit.
Even the office of the very high constitutional post of Advocate General has been stuffed with his family and friends. The Advocate General Subodh Kantak has confessed that his personal secretary, a clerk from the Corporation of City of Panaji, has been brought in by him as his Personal Secretary on a gazetted officers pay scale. Amongst other errands he walks the Advocate General’s pack of dogs. The whole system of recruitment of staff seems to have gone to dogs. Aires Rodrigues T1 - B30, Ribandar Retreat Ribandar - Goa - 403006 Mobile: 9822684372
