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PANAJI
The State government has completed a major exercise of assessing manpower in about 61 administrative departments, government organisations, and corporations, paving the way for new recruitments to as many as 5,318 various posts sanctioned for these departments.
Incidentally, a whopping 50 per cent of these approved posts pertain to departments allotted to Vishwajit Rane, followed by 1,250 posts in various departments under Chief Minister Pramod Sawant.
Also of significant interest is the fact that the State government has cancelled around 351 posts during the exercise to assess the various posts. The posts cancelled at in the departments of panchayats (27 posts), handicrafts (58 posts), Provedoria (21 posts), forest (16 posts) and general administration (23 posts).
Besides, there are around 26 posts which have sanctioned on a contract basis.
According to sources, the State government had begun the assessment of manpower in various departments in the State and had issued directions to halt recruitments till this assessment was completed.
The assessment of around 61 administrative departments, government organizations and corporations have been completed and the essential recruitments has been approved, while non-essential posts have been scrapped by the government.
The posts which have been sanctioned include the Goa Medical College (1,993), Directorate of Human Behaviour and Psychiatry (312), Public Works Department (254), higher education (108), North and South collectorates (330), TCP (54), Agriculture (51), art and culture (60), Panchayats (56), Animal husbandry (90), KTC (99), Entertainment Society of Goa (43), planning and statistics (57), Directorate of Food and Drugs Administration (54), dental college (87), settlement and land record (94), environment (66) and courts (111).
Rane has bagged the most recruitments (2,671) sanctioned for his departments, which include health, law, industries and women and child welfare.
Recruitments sanctioned in his health department consist of GMC (1,933), IPHB (312) and dental college (87), while recruitments sanctioned in his other departments include law (139), women and child welfare (71).
The departments headed by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant have a total of 1,250 jobs sanctioned and they include police (902), higher education (108), Lokayukta (31), ESG (43), general administration (23),
information and publicity (28) and prison administration (29).
Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sardessai has posts sanctioned in his departments of TCP (54), Agriculture (51) and forests (3).
The departments such as revenue, statistics, which are headed by Rohan Khaunte, have a total of 503 posts sanctioned, while departments headed by Deepak Pauskar have 254 posts sanctioned.
Govind Gaude has around 113 posts sanctioned for his departments, while Mauvin Gudinho has 146 posts sanctioned in his panchayats and animal husbandry departments.
While Nilesh Cabral’s departments have around 66 posts sanctioned, Vinod Palyekar has around 24 posts sanctioned in his departments.
