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Contract workers gherao PCE over PWD recruitment

PANAJI

The PWD contract workers and IT engineers along with Goa Forward leaders on Friday gheraoed the Principal Chief Engineer of the Public Works Department and demanded an explanation into the recruitment process.

Goa Forward has already demanded a probe into the alleged scam in job recruitments in the PWD and has also approached the court in the matter.

A delegation led by GFP General Secretary Durgadas Kamat and other workers met the PCE Uttam Parsekar and questioned him about the recruitment issue.

One contract worker complained that the chances of contract workers getting a permanent job had been reduced to zero with the present recruitment scenario.

“We have been working with the department for the last 15 years. What are we to do if the recruitment is done unfairly,” asked the contract worker.

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Old Goa structure: Taleigao parish priest says small hut existed at site

THE GOAN NETWORK
Published Dec 18, 2021, 12:09 AM IST
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Old Goa structure: Taleigao parish priest says small hut existed at site

OLD GOAParish priest of St Michael’s Church at Taleigao Fr Cypriano da Silva gave more credence to the fact that only a small hut existed at the site of the controversial Old Goa structure, as the fast satyagraha completed 24 days on Friday.“As we lived in the Pastoral Institute in 1980-81, I can recollect that there was a small hut in the area. Today, I was shocked to see such a huge construction which has come up using all unfair means to get licences,” Fr Silva…

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