MARGAO
The long wait seemed not over yet for the thousands of job seekers, a whopping 24,668 applicants to be precise, who had applied for the 147 vacant posts at the South Goa district Collectorate, way back in February 2019.
Hopes were raised in mid-April earlier this year after the South district Collector, Asvin Chandru unveiled the examination schedule, only to be dashed with the Model election code of conduct coming into force in view of the elections for the Ponda and Sanquelim Municipal Councils earlier this year.
Interestingly, while curtains had come down on the Municipal polls in the first week of May last, ringing in good news for the BJP leadership, with the Lotus blooming at both the Sanquelim and Ponda municipal Councils, job seekers seemed to have been left high and dry over the prospects of early conduct of the examination.
In fact, it’s exactly three months since the Municipal election process had come to an end, but job seekers have received no news of the written examination and they all seemed anxiously looking for the district Collectorate officials to unveil the fresh scheduled of written examination for the 147 posts.
A job seeker, who had applied for the post of MTS in 2019, pointed out that the district Collectorate has issued no fresh communique to hold the written examinations. “We could understand the decision of the district Collector to postpone the examination in the month of April in view of the civic polls and the model code of conduct in force. But, we are surprised that three months have passed since results for the Ponda and Sanquelim Municipal polls were declared by the Returning Officers, but the written examination scheduled is still not unveiled by the Collectorate till date’, remarked a dejected job seeker.
When The Goan called up a senior South Collectorate official to shed light on the delay in conducting the written examinations for the 147 posts, the official only pointed out that the process will be once again set in motion at the earliest.
The South Goa district Collector had in mid-February 2019 had invited applications from prospective candidates to fill up the 147 Group C posts, consisting of Jr. Stenographer, Talathis, Lower Divisional Clerks and Multi-Tasking Staff.
In response to the advertisement, a whopping around 24,668 candidates had applied for the posts, with many of them even burning midnight oil, spending hours in serpentine queues just to apply for the jobs.
However, since the time the candidates had applied for the jobs in February 2019, they had received no call from the district Collector for the written examination and the skill test, only throwing up questions amongst the applicants over the entire recruitment process.
It was only in mid-April earlier this year that the applicants were informed via a public notice by incumbent district Collector, Asvin Chandru, about the examination schedule, including the written test and skill test for the Jr Stenographers.
As earlier reported by The Goan, with around 24,668 candidates applying for the 147 jobs up for grabs, an average 167 candidates will be vying for one job advertised by the Collectorate.
A break up of the applications revealed that of the total 24,668 applications, around 5,283 applications were received for the nine posts of Talathis, indicating that 587 candidates will vie for these posts.
Similarly, with 4,766 applications received for the 15 posts of Jr Stenographers, as many as 317 applicants are expected to vie for the posts.
A whopping 13,937 applications were received for the 92 posts of LDCs, indicating that around 152 applicants will vie for the posts at stake.
