Times of India: Panaji: Sunday,
March 30, 2014.
Two former
caretakers at the state home for juveniles, Apna Ghar, employed on contract
basis, Nilesh Pawar and Siddharth Vast, have alleged a fraud in the appointment
of seven caretakers at the home on permanent basis in February 2014.
Vast, showing
documents issued to him under RTI, said that some of the candidates have been
appointed even when they had not submitted applications for the job. He said
that all the candidates have submitted documents that were not attested, even
though they have sworn in a statement that they have submitted attested copies
of documents.
Vast said
that the documents appear to have been attached at a later stage and alleged
the involvement of the staff at the directorate of women and child development
in the scam.
"Between
November 2012 and November 2013, there was not a single case of violence by the
children at Apna Ghar. This is the period when we were employed at the home. We
would regularly try to talk to the children asking them to think about the consequences
of their actions. But immediately after our contract ended, children in the
home went berserk in December 2013 and damaged property at the home. It seems
that it is in the interest of authorities to keep the children violent as a
single contract has been employed to carry out works at the home for the last
four years," he alleged.
Vast asked
why the suggestions in the Levinson Martin report were not implemented by the
state government to stop the escape of children from Apna Ghar.
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