MARGAO
A day after Margao Municipal Chief Officer issued a public notice to cancel the recruitment process to fill up the 43 posts, BJP-backed Margao Municipal Chairperson Damu Shirodkar on Thursday said he has no knowledge how the Chief Officer Gaurish Sankhwalkar has issued the public notice to cancel the process without his nod.
Saying he would discuss the matter with Margao MLA Digambar Kamat and Chief Minister Pramod Sawant how the recruitment process has been scrapped by not taking the civic chief into confidence when the Council is being ruled by the BJP, the MMC chairperson reminded that the Margao Municipality is an autonomous body and the appointment authority in matters of recruitment.
He made no bones of the fact that when the file for the cancellation of the recruitment process was sent to him by the Chief Officer, he had told the CO to keep the file pending. “What I can say when the Chairperson of a BJP ruled Council is not taken into confidence and the Chief Officer has taken a decision to cancel the process,” he wondered.
Saying he is unware how the Chief Officer has taken the decision to cancel the recruitment process, Damu pointed out that he came to know of the decision after someone WhatsApp him of the Chief Officer’s notice.
Saying that the Margao Municipality had initiated the recruitment process after seeking a nod from the Director, Urban Development, Damu said he has no knowledge how the process has now not found favour with the government. “I am not blaming the Chief Officer for the decision to issue the notice. May be he had to obey the instructions from his Urban Development Director or the Urban Development Secretary. But, when the recruitment process was advertised in the media, the file was signed by me as well as by the Chief Officer,” he said.
Ruling BJP councillors question notice on cancellation of jobs
MARGAO: Stunned by the Chief Officer’s decision to cancel the recruitment process on the instructions of the government, the ruling BJP Margao Municipal councillors are on the job to find out how their very own government cancelled the process to fill up the 43 posts in the civic body.
In fact, one of the two ruling councillors, who were promised jobs for their siblings, informed that he would call on the Margao MLA Digambar Kamat to find out why the recruitment stands scrapped by the government.
In fact, with the Chief Officer cancelling the recruitment process and the Chairperson Damu Shirodkar asserting he was not taken into confidence while taking the decision, ruling councillors now look forward to the BJP MLA to shed light on the episode given that the very BJP government has cancelled the recruitment process. “When the BJP leadership had asked for our support to form the council, they had promised us many things. Let our MLA explain us what went wrong with the recruitment process and why the ruling government went all out to scrap the process,” remarked a councillor.
He added: “We will also call on the Chief Minister Pramod Sawant just to find out why the government decided to scrap the recruitment process initiated by a local autonomous body. After the BJP had returned to power in the Margao Municipal Council after a gap of 17 years, the Chief Minister had promised to usher development in the city.”
