The public company Tragsa launches 100 jobs before the flood of aid for the Dana after double its workforce in the Sánchez era

A delegation of Betrayal  travels today to the Valencian Community, the epicenter of the Dana that ravaged dozens of municipalities at the end of last year. The public entity has become the cornerstone of the management of state aids to those affected by floods, after, in December, the Government entrusted the expertise of damage and advice to those affected by the catastrophe. As the world has learned, so as not to be overwhelmed by this flood of procedures, the public company chaired by Jesús Casas has reorganized its internal structure and has launched A recruitment process to reinforce your equipment.

Currently, Tragsa is immersed in the process of covering the 111 positions of which he has endowed a new Subdirectorate created ad hoc for the pharaonic task, which has been baptized as a national response and reconstruction mechanism against the DANA (Menrred). The new incorporations will swell The tragsa template that has been duplicated with the administration of Pedro Sánchezmoving from around 12,000 workers in 2017 to about 26,000 at the end of 2024.

The public entity under the umbrella of the Ministry of Finance is carrying out a mixed recruitment process. In a first phase, due to “operability, efficiency and immediacy”, the uptake is being carried out through the internal promotion of fixed tragsa and tragsatec workers. “It is personal with an accredited experience, which represents a guarantee for the execution of the functions entrusted to the mechanism,” official sources explain to this newspaper. In short, resources from other areas will be transferred to the new Subdirectorate for the DANA.

Although in the entity they already assume that it is “very likely” that they fail to cover the new structure completely by this way. “In those cases, the corresponding vacancy will be published and select the personnel that meet the requirements respecting the principles of equality, merit and capacity,” they report.

At the moment the new area is under the direction of coordination and institutional actions of the group, which Capitanea Paloma López. While the works of the new department are also being protected by the own Jesús Casas who just over a month ago has already visited the reconstruction works to alleviate the effects of rains on rural roads in Requena (Valencia); Together with the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas.

Tragsa Group is what is known as a state of the State, A 100% public body whose only client is the administration from which he receives mandates of all kinds, from hydraulic studies to services in immigrant reception devices in the Canary Islands.

In its latest report on Tragsa for the 2021-2022 period, the Court of Accounts gave a touch of attention to the Government for its excess commissions to the public entity, something that its competitors of the private sector have been denouncing. The TC detected extensions of unjustified emergency orders and mandates that have moved away from the objective for which the public company was created. In 2020 he received 1,096 orders worth 903 million; in 2021, 1,370 commissions for 1,205 million and in 2022, 1,671 mandates for 1,649.9 million. And this has reflected its template.