Questions over transparency as MMC bypasses SSC for recruitment process

A total of 13 posts are open, comprising 11 lower divisional clerks, a supervisor, and a mason.

Around 1,500-odd job seekers, with over 100 applicants vying for each of the jobs up for grabs.

Indeed, in the midst of the raging jobs-for-cash scam in the State, Margao Municipal Council's recruitment drive to fill up the 11 posts of LDCs, besides a supervisor has come under the public scrutiny. The recruitment drive has also come under the lens of citizens against the backdrop of reports that a couple of ruling councillors were lobbying for their kith and kin.

With Stage-I of the recruitment process coming to an end on November 11, the last date for the submission of application forms, what's next is a question doing the rounds in the corridors of the civic body and outside.