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PANAJI
The State government will soon initiate a fresh process to recruit 100 accountants for its Directorate of Accounts anew after the one conducted in January saw all 8000 candidates who appeared in the written exam fail to make the grade.
Top sources in the Goa administration said, a new process will be advertised in which applicants will be permitted to appear for the final recruitment exam only after clearing the hurdle of a preliminary ‘screening test’.
The logic is that once candidates go through the rigours of the ‘screening test’, they will take the recruitment test more seriously and prepare themselves better, a top official in the State Secretariat said.
Earlier on Tuesday, Director of Accounts Prakash Pereira had notified that none of the nearly 8000 aspirants, all commerce graduates, who wrote the written exam held in January cracked the requisite 50 per-cent benchmark and were therefore not eligible to be recruited against the 80 ‘common accounts cadre’ posts advertised then.
Meanwhile, a top government official in the State finance ministry said it was incorrect to say that the candidates had “failed” the exam.
“There is no question of pass or fail in these recruitment tests. These tests judge
