Says not everyone can be accommodated in govt jobs; urges self-employment, entrepreneurship
the goan I network
PANAJI
Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Monday told the Goa legislative assembly that as many as 5000-plus vacancies had been cleared and the respective departments will now have to initiate the recruitment process to fill these vacancies after creating the posts.
Sawant also said that 10 per-cent reservation for the economically weaker sections (EWS) without affecting the existing quotas for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, OBCs, disabled and other existing categories will be implemented.
Replying to query posed by Aldona MLA Glenn Ticlo during question hour, Sawant said the ongoing process of rationalising the government’s workforce being undertaken by the Inter-departmental Officers Committee (IDOC) and High Level Empowered Committee headed by himself, had completed the exercise in several departments.
Responding to Navelim MLA Luizinho Faleiro’s supplementary, Sawant said there is no process in place to set up a Staff Selection Committee to conduct the recruitment of non-officer posts but asserted that each department will conduct the process by taking assistance from the relevant autonomous institution with the specific expertise.
He said, Goa Education Development Corporation, technical institutes like the Polytechnics besides others will be roped in to conduct the recruitment tests and evaluations.
To another supplementary by Faleiro, Sawant said over 5,000 government jobs are now virtually cleared and another three to four thousand will be added once the staff rationalisation exercise is complete.
He said, not all youth can be accommodated in government jobs and the education system will have to be re-oriented to instill the spirit of entrepreneurship particularly among technically qualified youth.
Sawant made the remark after Faleiro claimed engineering degree holders from his constituency were applying for clerical positions, which indicated that the employment scenario was precarious and Goan youth are getting desperate.
The chief minister also said that a new category of Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) has been created with SSC as the minimum qualifying mark.
He urged legislators to discourage youngsters from hankering after government employment and instead goad them into self-employment and entrepreneurship.
He also said, that the government is in the process of rationalising the employment process in the private sector to do away with the job insecurity there.
