Goa ministers have 172 staff; 30 with CM Manohar Parrikar -ToI

Goa ministers have 172 staff; 30 with CM Manohar Parrikar Vijay Desouza, TNN | May 19, 2013, 07.51 AM IST PANAJI: The Goa cabinet ministers have a total of 172 office staff members and the chief minister ManoharParrikar himself has a strength of 30, information obtained under Right to Information ( RTI) Act has revealed. Minister for cooperation Pandurang (Deepak) Dhavalikar has the least staff among his cabinet colleagues of just seven staff members, as per the information obtained by social activist Aires Rodrigues. As per the rules revised last year, the chief minister is now entitled to a maximum of 33 office staff while each cabinet Minister is allowed up to 15 staff, Rodrigues said. PWD Minister Ramkrishna (Sudin) Dhavalikar, power minister Milind Naik, sports minister Ramesh Tawadkar and tourism minister Dilip Parulekar have 15 staff each while water resources minister Dayanand Mandrekar has 14 and health minister Laxmikant Parsekar and industries minister Mahadev Naik have 13 each. Deputy chief minister Francis D'Souza and forest minister Alina Saldanha have 12 staff members each while the labour minister Avertano Furtado has 11. The documents showed that the chief minister has four OSDs. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Goa-ministers-have-172-staff-30-with-CM-Manohar-Parrikar/articleshow/20131178.cms