[IAC#RG] CRACKING DOWN ON CORRUPTION

Chief Secretary Kewal Sharma has sought a report from the Vigilance Department on the complaint against Goa's Commissioner of Commercial Taxes S.G.Korgaonkar of having failed to file a First Information Report (F.I.R) in the alleged 2011 Commercial Tax Inspectors recruitment scam.

 

S.G.Korgaonkar who was also the Chairman of the Departmental Selection Committee in 2011   in a letter dated 9th January 2015 to the Government Advocate has himself  admitted that the recruitment of those Commercial Tax Inspectors was found to be a recruitment scam. The Goa Government by a circular dated 14th March last year had directed all heads of departments to file an F.I.R wherever illegality or fraud had been committed in the staff recruitment process from 1st November 2011 to 30th March 2012.

 

The beleaguered S.G.Korgaonkar is already under the scanner of the Vigilance department for having illegally and in clear violation of law regularized some offences under the Valued Added Tax to the benefit of some companies who owed the government crores of rupees by way of taxes and penalties. 

Ironically despite all this dubious record S.G.Korgaonkar was given two extensions in service by then Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and the third extension last month by current Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar. This government's much publicized mantra of Zero Tolerance to Corruption has clearly been consigned to the racks if not buried.