PANAJI
Goa government is set to recommend names of four officers of the Goa Civil Service for promotion to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).
A committee under the Chief Secretary Puneet Kumar Goel has cleared names of Amar Sen Rane, Levinson Martins, Sunil Masurkar and Meghanath Parab to be promoted in the IAS cadre of AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territories).
The selection committee of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) is slated to meet in November to decide on the IAS list. The State will be moving its proposal accordingly, so that it is taken up during the November meeting, sources said.
In 2019, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs had announced that Goa’s quota in the posts to be filled through promotion in the AGMUT cadre has been hiked from the existing 10 to 13.
In 2020, eight officers -- Elvis Gomes, Menino D’Souza, Narayan Sawant, Sanjit Rodrigues, Sanjiv Gadkar, Yatindra Maralkar, Prasad Lolayekar and Michael D’Souza -- were cleared by the Union Ministry.
Before that it was in 2016, three Goa officers -- Sandip Jacques, Arun Desai and Swapnil Naik -- had made it to the IAS joint AGMUT cadre.
