PANAJI
The State government has asked the Goa Staff Selection Commission (GSSC) to complete the requirements to group C posts by October 31.
The government had earlier set deadline of August 31 to complete the recruitment process.
The government has amended the Goa Staff Selection Commission (Amendment) Act 2023 in this regard. The amendment has substituted the proviso to sub-section (8) of Section 7 of the Goa Staff Selection Commission Act, 2019, as follows:
“Provided that where advertisements for filling up of the subordinate services/posts were issued prior to January 8, 2022, the department concerned may conduct examination and complete the selection process to such subordinate services/posts not later than October 31, 2023.”
Just before the State could go for polls in 2022, several departments had issued advertisements for subordinate posts were issued before January 8, 2022. The government had started recruitments to fill around 10,000 vacancies during that period.
However, with election code coming into force, the recruitment process was halted.
The government is of the view that it would be a wasteful exercise to re-advertise the vacancies. Thus, it desired that the departments complete the halted recruitment process.
