Levison Martins likely to be next GSPCB chairman

Panaji: IAS officer Levison Martins is likely to be the next chairman of the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB). Martins served as a member secretary in GSPCB for six years. A total of eight people had applied for the post, including a bureaucrat, an environmentalist, and an educationist, among others.
The four-member committee, headed by the chief secretary, recommended Martins’ name to the Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) to take a final decision and issue the order.
Martins holds an LLB degree, a postgraduate degree in arts, a diploma in production engineering, a postgraduate diploma in management, and a PhD in management. His thesis was titled ‘Institutional mechanism and requirement of human resource for solid waste management in Goa’.
Martins has 19 years of work experience, including serving as an assistant public prosecutor in the director of prosecution for Goa govt, North Goa collector, deputy director, public grievance, deputy collector Margao, Mapusa and Bicholim, superintendent of sub jail at Sada, under secretary to revenue department, special judicial magistrate under Motor Vehicle Act at Mormugao, OSD to the chief minister, and currently posted as commissioner, labour and employment.
Eight persons applied for the post of GSPCB chairman include the incumbent chairman Mahesh Patil, Dipak C S Gaitond, Ulhas G Sawaikar, Pradip Sarmokadam, Ganesh Budhu Shetgaonkar, Nitin S Wagh, and Srinet Kothwale.