The employment-related scams have made headlines in Goa adding to the growing list of such cases amounting to crores of rupees. The government should be held accountable for the rot within its own recruitment system. It is no secret in Goa that securing a government job often hinges on either financial transactions or connections with MLAs and other elected representatives. Goa have failed their citizens on all the platforms. The anti-corruption institutions sit idle, thinking that nothing has been happened. The Goa Lokayukta institution should have been immediately acted on such type of corruption cases. The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act was passed in 2013, but over the years, many states have weakened the office of the ombudsman and today it carries the burden of ‘toothless’ tag. Many states have curbed the powers of the Lokayukta saying that the powers of the ombudsman can’t be allowed to override those of the state government. Institutions of this kind have to earn their reputation but that hasn’t happened. In most places, governments have come to understand how to play a game over this.
