650 Assistant Professors, 1200 Nurses to be recruited at Govt Medical Colleges by KEA

Bengaluru: Around 650 assistant professors and 1,200 nurses who come under the Group-A category will be recruited through competitive examination by the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) soon.  

The confirmation in this regard came from Karnataka Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil on Wednesday who directed officials to fill the vacancies in a meeting held with the officials of the department. 

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"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," said the official statement reported by ANI.

The step is aimed at maintaining transparency and competition in the recruitment process and checking irregularities. The minister said that the department's recruitment bylaws would be amended to pave the way for KEA to conduct tests for the vacant posts.

The statement added, "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".

For a smooth process of handing over the recruitment mantle to KEA, Patil instructed the director of medical education Sujatha Rathod to constitute an expert committee for syllabus for the KEA to hold tests, it added, news agaency ANI reported.

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