Karnataka Government To Recruit 650 Assistant Professors and 1,200 Nurses

Karnataka's Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil directed KEA to handle Group A recruitment, including 650 Assistant Professors and 1,200 nurses, to ensure transparency and curb corruption.

Karnataka: Govt will fill 650 Assistant Professors and 1,200 Nurses posts.

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Karnataka Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil directed officials on Wednesday to fill Group A vacancies exclusively through the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) by conducting a competitive exam, news agency ANI quoted a statement. The minister instructed officials to promptly recruit 650 Assistant Professors in the Group A category and to induct 1,200 nurses through KEA, the statement added.

"Chairing a crucial meeting with the officials of the Department of Medical Education, Minister Patil not satisfied with the current recruitment process which the heads of the individual institutions used to conduct recruitment amid allegations of corruption and nepotism, took a slew of measures aimed at regulating the recruitment process and filling the vacant posts in the 33 government institutions coming under the department of medical education including 22 medical colleges and 11 super speciality hospitals across the state," the statement added.

The step aims to enhance transparency and competition in recruitment and address irregularities. The minister announced that the department's recruitment bylaws would be updated to allow KEA to handle tests for vacant positions.

"The proposal to recruit nurses through KEA was sent by the government a couple of years back. The KEA, however, wrote back that it would be difficult for it to examine the absence of proper C&R rules in, the roaster system. When this development was brought to the minister's notice, Patil directed the DME & joint secretary to follow C&R rules applicable to the recruitment of nurses under the health and family welfare department," the statement added.

To ensure a smooth transition of the recruitment process to KEA, Patil instructed Director of Medical Education Sujatha Rathod to form an expert committee to develop the syllabus for KEA’s tests, it  added.