PANAJI
Amid a general belief that the State government is grossly overstaffed, it is difficult to imagine that several thousands of posts could still be lying vacant in various departments.
But believe it or not, nearly 10,000 posts are vacant in the 73 departments, of which 13 important departments alone account for 7,000 of these vacancies.
Including Corporations and other government bodies, the State government currently employs an estimated 55,000 people and is reported to have one of the country's highest ratios of government employees in terms of population.
Sources at the secretariat informed The Goan that 7,000 posts have been lying vacant in the key departments of health, PWD, power, education, police, WRD, forest, fire and emergency services, art and culture, revenue, town and country planning, animal husbandry and transport department.
"Some posts will be filled through promotion, while other posts will be filled through direct appointment," a source said.
According to information by various ministers during the Assembly session in August, the vacancies in their departments had consisted of transport (122), nurses in various government hospitals (1,347), PWD (1980), TCP (60), revenue department (103), electricity department (865) and in educational institutions (426).
Sources informed that over a thousand posts are vacant in the electricity department, of which 400 posts are expected to be filled through promotion.
"Besides, more than 1,700 posts are vacant in the police department, 350 posts in the forest and 250 posts in the fire and emergency services," the source added.
Other vacancies are also present in the departments of mines, cooperation, tourism, ESI, women and child development, agriculture, prison administration, commercial tax and captain of ports.
DySPs reshuffled
PANAJI: The government has reshuffled several deputy superintendents of police (DySPs) with significant changes, including the transfer of the Sammy Tavares who has been transferred as Sub Divisional Police Officer, Quepem, and posted as DySP of Crime Branch with additional charge as DySP of the Anti Narcotics Cell and DySP of the Anti Terror Squad at Panaji.
In his place, Police Inspector Uttam Raut Desai has been promoted to DySP and posted as SDPO Quepem.
SDPO of Porvorim Serafin Dias has been posted as SDPO Mapusa while Mapusa SDPO Mahesh Gaonkar has been posted as SDPO Ponda. Ponda SDPO Sunita Sawant has been posted as SDPO Vasco while Lawrence D'Souza the SDPO of Vasco has been posted as DySP (Special Branch) at Panaji. Rajendra Raut Dessai, the DySP of the Special Branch Panaji has been posted as SDPO Margao with additional charge as DySP Konkan Railway.
Other reshuffling included Kiran Poduval who was on deputation to the Goa Human Rights Commission has been posted as SDPO Porvorim, the promotion of Gurudas Gawade from the Maina Curtorim PI as the SDPO Bicholim.
