Panaji, June 15: Congress on Thursday demanded to investigate the Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) recruitment process of Goa University by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) alleging rules and regulations were flawed. Congress Media Cell Chairman Amarnath Panajikar, along with Elvis Gomes, Janardhan Bhandari, Pradip Naik, Sandeep Pednekar and others slammed the BJP government over the issue.
Panajikar alleged that Goa University has done injustice to the people of the coastal state by terminating the services of 25 Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS), who worked for the last 10 years, and now failed to reinstate them during fresh recruitment. “Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and other leaders of BJP are doing ‘Tiffin Pe Charcha’ in the state. They should discuss the issue of unemployment and how they are doing injustice to our youths. Recruitment by Goa University seems to be a scam and hence it should be investigated by CBI,” Panjikar said.
Congress leader Elvis Gomes said that it is an injustice on Goans as Goa University terminated the contract of existing 25 MTS. “In Madhya Pradesh BJP had done ‘Vyapam Scam’, such recruitment scam has never happened in our country. It seems BJP is trying to do a similar scam in Goa, who in past have failed more than 8000 candidates to recruit their ‘selective’ candidates. Investigation by CBI in Goa University issue is justified because prime facie it looks like rules are flawed. They have also failed to declare a merit list on the website,” Gomes said.
“When these 25 MTS staff were recruited by following procedure of answering exam and other 10 years ago, how the government can terminate them and make them jobless for no fault,” Gomes asked. He added that all these 25 MTS who appeared for fresh exams for the new recruitment were failed purposely to provide jobs to near and dear ones of politicians in power. “May be they have done this purposely to make money out of the new recruitment,” he alleged. He said that BJP is trying to have control of Goa university by interfering in the recruitment process. “The BJP government in 2003 had cancelled the autonomy of the Goa University to get the things done how they want,” he alleged.
Gomes said that all the contractual staff working in various departments of Goa government should understand how this BJP government is using them and doing injustice after 10 years of service. “How all of them can fail when they had passed exams initially during their appointment before 10 years and now having experience of around 10 years,” he asked.
He said that though Goa Staff Selection Commission was established in 2019, BJP has failed to recruit a single candidate under it. “They suspended it to recruit their selective candidates,” he said. Gomes also said that central government offices and public sector agencies in the state were no more recruiting Goans. “This is irony that our youths are not getting job opportunities in these areas,” Gomes said.