PANJIM, May 26 -- Ahead of a meeting of Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC), the Goa Public Service Commission (GPSC) is facing a tough time in filling up cadre postings in the government departments owing to lack of eligible candidates. Two major departments - Electricity and Water Resources have temporary Chief Engineers (CE) with the term of one of them slated to end this month.
"Today the positions of CE in the WRD and Electricity department are not filled on regular basis due to non-availability of qualified and experienced candidates within the department. This is mainly the result of years of taking cadre management lightly and granting ad hoc promotions instead of timely regular promotions," a source at the Secretariat, closely...