EXTENSIONS & CONTRACT APPOINTEMENTS: CAG TO MEET GUV
The Citizens Action Group (CAG) has urged the Goa Government to conduct a review through a judicial inquiry headed by a retired High court Judge of all extensions in service granted and contract appointments being made. Spokesman of CAG and former student leader Adv. Aires Rodrigues today stated that a delegation of the Citizens Action Group (CAG) led by Convenor Premanand A. Lotlikar will on Friday 17th October call on Goa Governor Kidar Nath Sahani at Raj Bhavan to seek his intervention to protect the promotional avenues of the younger deserving officers and the unemployed youth whose employment dreams are shattered by this current bad and uncalled for practice followed by the Government of Goa. Adv. Rodrigues stated that the number of officers being given extensions and being appointed on contract basis is alarming and that besides many are being appointed as Consultants and Advisors on a very exorbitant remuneration without advertising the posts thereby unnecessarily draining the state exchequer. Citing the example of the Law department Adv. Rodrigues stated that though a full fledged Law Secretary has been appointed the Government has now created a new position of " Legal Advisor" to somehow further accommodate the former Law Secretary V.P Shetye without considering this uncalled for huge financial burden on the state coffers. Adv. Rodrigues stated that the Government's discretion of granting extensions and making contract appointments should be invoked only in highly exceptional cases where a suitable replacement cannot be found for a very specialised or a highly technical post and lamented that some of the extensions granted were to some very corrupt and highly incompetent officers. Lamenting that the Goa Public Service Commission has no independence and was de-facto not autonomous, Adv. Rodrigues stated that transparency and credibility in selections by the Goa Public service Commission would prevail only if the Commission was chaired by a person of high caliber, integrity and enjoying the confidence of the public. Referring to the appointments made to various posts by the Goa Public Service Commission, Adv. Rodrigues alleged that all tests and interviews conducted by the Goa Public Service Commission are a mere eye-wash and that it is common knowledge by now that the candidate to be appointed is selected much before the recruitment procedure begins. x x x ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
