After exposing event management scam on Tuesday, Opposition takes on govt over alleged ₹70 cr PWD recruitment scam; demands House Committee
Minister Nilesh Cabral refuses House Committee citing Vigilance inquiry into the matter
Goemkarponn desk
PORVORIM: The opposition benches today demanded House Committee on PWD Recruitments which was scrapped earlier this year.
However, PWD Minister Nilesh Cabral and Chief Minister Pramod Sawant refused the demand while claiming that the Vigilance inquiry is currently on.
Goa Forward Chief Vijai Sardesai questioned the BJP Government over PWD Cash for Job Scam.
“Minister fails to give satisfactory replies. It’s a 70 Cr Cash for Job Scam, and their own Minister Babush and Sudin have demanded inquiry earlier. House Committee is a must,” said Sardesai.
He further said that he welcomed the decision of the Chief Minister to keep PWD job recruitment on hold, but he requested them not to open the same shop again.
Vijai said that he was demanding that the recruitments be probed by the Central Bureau of Investigations and scrap the entire process and restart again.
He charged that the department is now increasing the recruitment rate from the same candidates.
LoP Yuri Alemao, GFP’s Vijai Sardesai and other opposition demand House Committee.
Vijai also demanded to give PWD recruitment to GPS or the Staff selection commission to conduct the exam.
“What action will the state government take against the corrupt who are involved in this scam?” he added.
Minister Cabral replying said that the Vigilance department has already given them permission to take the examination, and at the same time, we have told vigilance to carry on their enquiry on previous job illegality.
Monserrate had alleged a scam of Rs 70 crore in recruiting PWD engineers, a process that picked up the pace before the assembly polls.
The PWD department had advertised the filling up more than 350 junior engineer and technical assistant posts in the public works department.
BJP’s Panaji MLA Babush Monserrate had charged the then PWD minister Deepak Pauskar of “selling engineer posts” and had claimed that the scam was worth Rs 70 crore. Pauskar, however, had dismissed the allegations.