Despite the State coffers being empty, it is very appalling that the government has high-handedly decided to further burden the exchequer by recruiting a whopping ten thousand more government employees. On the contrary, the bureaucracy which is now over-bloated needs to be down-sized as many departments are overstaffed.
After the BJP in Goa came to power in 2012, we have seen thousands being brazenly recruited into government service with merit thrown to the winds. It has been a deceitful attempt to create a vote bank while many jobs have also been dished away to the highest bidders. All this is reflecting in the pathetic functioning of the government offices with very incompetent staff having managed to creep in with the blessings of their political god fathers.
Ironically, with crores of rupees being drained on E-Governance, the bureaucracy should have shrunk but has infact been bloating by the day while only further burdening an already depleted State exchequer.
Currently, the only priority of the government can be to hire more doctors, nurses and medical support staff. The only other expenditure that can be justified in the prevailing grim financial scenario is the upgrading of the health centres and setting up of new ones so that the health needs of everyone is taken care of.
Goa is going through a very turbulent phase with people rightly up in arms against those needless and controversial projects. In a democracy, the government has to heed to the voice and sentiments of the people. Sadly citing the pandemic as an excuse, the Goa Legislative Assembly has not been meeting to discuss crucial issues confronting the State. A very sad and sordid state of affairs.
On the other hand while the State’s basic infrastructure is in doldrums and crumbling by the day our remaining hills and fields are making way for new concrete buildings which will only add to the mess we are already enveloped in.
