PANAJI
Light could soon shine on the fate of scores passing out from Goa's engineering colleges and polytechnics with the process to recruit a whopping 285 engineers in entry-level positions in three government departments in an advanced stage.
Authoritative sources in the Goa Staff Selection Commission (GSSC) said the Commission is working on the nitty-gritties of launching a recruitment process to hire technical assistants (TAs) and junior engineers (JEs) separately for the Electricity Department, Public Works Department (PWD) and the Water Resources Department (WRD).
All three departments had sent "requisitions" to the GSSC a couple of months ago to fill up these vacant positions of TAs and JEs.
While the Electricity Department has 85 sanctioned posts of JEs vacant and another four vacancies of TAs, the PWD has 101 JE posts to be filled and another 23 TA positions vacant.
The WRD on the other hand is short of 72 engineers from its sanctioned strength -- 39 Junior Engineers and 33 Technical Assistants.
According to GSSC sources, the requisition from the PWD to recruit 124 engineers, including 101 for JE positions and 23 for TA posts was received in June.
As for the Electricity Department and the WRD, the requisition file to fill up their respective entry-level vacancies of 89 and 72 engineers respectively had been moved to the GSSC in July.
Although no timeline has been set, the actual recruitment process including issuing of the notification (advertisement) calling for applications and conducting the recruitment exam could potentially take off by the end of this year, the GSSC sources said.
The electricity department requires 85 electrical engineers, either diploma or degree holders. It also has four positions of JEs with civil engineering vacant.
The 101 JE positions in the PWD are for engineers holding degrees or diplomas in civil, mechanical, computer, electronics, IT, automobile or fabrication and erection engineering. In addition, those with a mining engineering degree or diploma will also be eligible for the technical assistant positions in the PWD.
These reports emanating from the GSSC of largescale recruitment (285 positions) in government departments comes at a time when jobs have been hard to come for the scores of engineers who have been passing out from the five engineering colleges and the polytechnics in the State over the last few years, especially after the economic disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
