The educational qualification of Registrar cum Chief Executive Officer of the North Goa District and Sessions Court Mrs. Aruna Gaunekar is only SSC while a peon in the Court Mr. Paresh Gaonkar is doing his second year LLB. Mrs. Aruna Gaunekar who joined as a stenographer and later became Superintendent was promoted to the topmost post as CEO on 8th October 2010.
The Registrar cum Chief Executive officer is the overall in charge having control and supervision over the Administration, Establishment, Judicial, Accounts, Finance and Budget branches of the North Goa District and Sessions Court. The Registrar cum Chief Executive Officer is also responsible for the effective administration and has to assist the Principal North Goa District Judge in the inspection of Courts and the appointment, promotion, transfer and departmental inquiries of the 300 odd staff working at the North Goa District Court and the subordinate courts under it. The other duties of the Chief Executive Officer involve maintaining of confidential reports of all staff of North Goa District and the subordinate Courts while also handling all the confidential correspondence including the files pertaining to the Departmental Promotion Committee. It needs to be probed whether Principal North Goa District & Sessions Judge Ms. Nutan Sardesai manipulated the Departmental Promotion Committee meeting to facilitate and ensure the selection of Mrs. Aruna Gaunekar so that she could have her choiced person on the top post. Amongst other eligible candidates there were graduates who were sidelined despite the recruitment rules mandating that in selection to the post by promotion preference had to be given to Graduates. The recruitment rules to the post also state that if the post of Registrar cum Chief Executive officer is filled by direct recruitment a degree in law with three years legal practice was mandatory. So how can one expect a person with SSC as the educational qualification to discharge the duties and responsibilities as the Chief Executive Officer of North Goa District & Sessions Court and its subordinate courts. All earlier Registrar cum Chief Executive Officers were at least graduates if not Law Graduates The High Court should look into this serious anomaly as the 54 year old Mrs. Aruna Gaunekar would otherwise continue in that post for the next six years in rank violation of the recruitment rules while doing grave injustice to that high and important post as CEO of the North Goa District and Sessions Court. Aires Rodrigues T1 - B30, Ribandar Retreat Ribandar - Goa - 403006 Mobile: 9822684372
