Assistant Motor Vehicle inspectors, controversiallyrecruited by the earlier congress government before the elections, have beengiven a surprising lease of life but the Parrikar government, which had earlierscrapped all 29 recruitments
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), in its report, had raiseddoubts regarding the whole selection process and the integrity of the officialsof the transport department involved in the selection process. ACB had furthermentioned that basic requirement of recruitment rules were not followed duringthe selection process.
Investigating officer, Braz Menezes and SP Bosco George haverecommended that an FIR be registered in the case under the section ofprevention of corruption act, criminal conspiracy and other relevant sectionsof IPC against defaulters. The report was signed by both the PI and the SP inJune 2012.
On July 10, the Chief Minister informed that he had scrappedthe entire recruitment process of the 29 AMVIs. However, on July 20, he made aremark on the ACB’s report, saying that showcause notices will be issued to allAMVIs prior to scrapping all the posts.
“Proposal of issuing of show cause notices to all AMVIsbefore finalising action may be done in view of the fact that they are alreadyin service. We may issue show cause notice to officials seeking theirexplanation on the issue. Finality can be arrived only after replies arereceived,” the noting of the CM reads.
Interestingly, the same transport minister of the Congressgovernment, Sudin Dhavlikar, continues to be in the BJP led government now. Itis learnt that Dhavlikar is allegedly pressurising the CM not to scrap theposts.
It is an open knowledge that many of these posts are tradedfor huge sums, thereby kick starting corruption at the recruitment stageitself.
