Daijiworld Media Network – Panaji
Panaji, Aug 11: The Government of Goa has rolled out a series of sweeping reforms in employment policy and personnel management, aimed at enhancing working conditions, ensuring recruitment transparency, and creating better career opportunities for thousands across the state.
Under the newly launched Grant of Temporary Status to Daily Wage Workers Scheme 2025, all daily wage workers serving in government departments, corporations, or autonomous bodies for over seven years will be given temporary status. This entitles them to fixed monthly pay between Rs 21,800 and Rs 26,800, 3% annual increments, leave benefits, and enrollment in social security schemes. Around 3,000 workers are set to benefit.
In line with budget commitments, Mission Karmayogi mandates all state officers and employees to complete at least three online courses annually on the iGOT Karmayogi platform, with completions recorded in their Annual Performance Appraisal Reports. So far, all departments are onboard, with over 56,000 employees registered.
The state has introduced new skill requirements for positions such as Multi-Tasking Staff, Lower Division Clerk, Assistants, and Stenographers, including a minimum one-year work experience and, from November 1, 2025, a six-month diploma in computer skills.
A major overhaul of recruitment rules has seen 94 updated or newly framed since December 2022, many of them decades old. The government is also considering regularising contract workers with over 10 years’ service and has already granted age relaxations and contractual benefits for certain categories.
Reservations for children of freedom fighters in Group C posts have been doubled to 10%, while the compassionate appointment scheme now prioritises dependents of employees who die in accidents on duty, with the income limit raised to Rs 5 lac.
In a significant move, 196 Home Guards have been absorbed as constables in the police force. The Goa Human Resource Development Corporation, employing over 4,500 staff across the state, has also been given a 10% departmental vacancy quota, along with education reimbursement benefits.
Since the Goa Staff Selection Commission Act came into effect in 2019, recruitment for all Group C posts is being routed through the GSSC, with vacancy requisitions steadily increasing over the years, reflecting the state’s push for merit-based recruitment.