PANAJI
The Goa Public Service Commission has completed the recruitment process for 24 Junior Scale Officers (JSO) in a record six months with 20 clearing the final interview round.
“The Commission has recommended 20 officers at the junior scale level to the Personnel Department of the government after a three-day long interview process that concluded on Friday,” GPSC Chairman Jose Manual Noronha said.
The Commission advertised 24 JSO positions in July 2022, in response to which, nearly 3,200 candidates applied.
The first stage of the shortlisting process comprised a pre-screening test wherein only 141 candidates passed, who were then eligible to answer the Computer Based Recruitment Test (CBRT) examination held on September 19, 2022. This screening exam comprised 75 marks paper which included topics on History, Governance, Environment, Ecology, Bio-Diversity, Innovations, Panchayat Raj, Public Policy, Current Affairs, Geography, English, Logical Reasoning, etc.
Fifty-five candidates cleared the exam and they answered a written exam for a total of 250 marks which comprised four papers. Of these, 31 candidates -- SC - 01, OBC - 08, ST - 03, PwD - 01 and GEN -18 -- passed in their respective categories.
“These candidates were called for an interview exam, which comprised 40 marks, of whom 20 cleared the final round,” Noronha said.
In the last six years of the current Chairperson’s tenure, the GPSC recruited 34 JSOs through seven different examinations, and with the current batch of 20 recommendations, a total of 54 JSOs have been selected so far.
