Chief Secretary Kewal Sharma has sought a report from the Vigilance
Department on the complaint against Goa’s Commissioner of Commercial Taxes
S.G.Korgaonkar of having failed to file a First Information Report (F.I.R)
in the alleged 2011 Commercial Tax Inspectors recruitment scam.
S.G.Korgaonkar who was also the Chairman of the Departmental Selection
Committee in 2011 in a letter dated 9th January 2015 to the Government
Advocate has himself admitted that the recruitment of those Commercial Tax
Inspectors was found to be a recruitment scam. The Goa Government by a
circular dated 14th March last year had directed all heads of departments
to file an F.I.R wherever illegality or fraud had been committed in the
staff recruitment process from 1st November 2011 to 30th March 2012.
The beleaguered S.G.Korgaonkar is already under the scanner of the
Vigilance department for having illegally and in clear violation of law
regularized some offences under the Valued Added Tax to the benefit of some
companies who owed the government crores of rupees by way of taxes and
penalties.
Ironically despite all this dubious record S.G.Korgaonkar was given two
extensions in service by then Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and the third
extension last month by current Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar. This
government’s much publicized mantra of Zero Tolerance to Corruption has
clearly been consigned to the racks if not buried.
Aires Rodrigues
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