SUB; ILLEGALITIES CANNOT BE COMPROMISED GSPCB suspends 11 probationary employees for recruitment irregularity
NT NETWORK PANAJI: Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) on Thursday terminated services of 11 of its probationary employees for alleged illegal recruitment. It may be recalled that in the month of March, GSPCB had issued show-cause notices to 34 probationary employees for alleged irregularity in their recruitment during the erstwhile government, asking them why their appointments should not be terminated. The probationary employees including scientific assistants, junior lab assistants and senior lab assistants were recruited in the month of December 2011 by the erstwhile government. Sayadhari Sinari, who had applied for all three posts but did not even got selected for a single post, had filed a writ petition against the entire recruitment process before the High Court suspecting foul play in the entire recruitment process. When the matter came up for hearing, the GSPCB council had assured the court that it would initiate a detailed enquiry into the recruitment process and accordingly initiate action. However, to investigate the charges GSPCB had appointed retired Joint Secretary, Personnel, Borkar and asked him to submit a report before the Board on November 2012. The GSPCB chairman, Jose Manual Noronha informed that the findings of Borkar Committee had raised serious question marks over the entire recruitment process. He further said that on February 15, at the Board’s special meeting, the Borkar Committee report was tabled before members. He said that during the board meeting, it decided to initiate further action and accordingly the show-cause notices were issued to all 34 probationary employees.
