Govt to recruit 650 Assistant Professors and 1,200 nurses: Medical education minister

BENGALURU: Medical Education Minister Dr Sharan Prakash Patil has directed officials to fill the Group A vacancies only through Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) by conducting a competitive examination, a statement released on Wednesday said.

The minister instructed the officials to immediately take steps to recruit 650 Assistant Professors who come under the Group-A category and induct 1,200 nurses through KEA, it 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.

ಇಂದು ವಿಕಾಸಸೌಧದಲ್ಲಿ ವೈದ್ಯಕೀಯ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ ಇಲಾಖೆಯ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿಗಳ ಜೊತೆ ಮಹತ್ವದ ಸಭೆ ನಡೆಸಿದೆ.

ವೈದ್ಯಕೀಯ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ ಇಲಾಖೆಯಡಿ ಬರುವ ಗ್ರೂಪ್ -ಎ ನ 650 ಸಹಾಯಕ ಪ್ರಾಧ್ಯಾಪಕರು ಮತ್ತು 1200 ನರ್ಸ್ ಗಳನ್ನು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಪರೀಕ್ಷಾ ಪ್ರಾಧಿಕಾರದ ಮೂಲಕ ನೇಮಕ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳವಂತೆ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಸೂಚಿಸಿದೆ.

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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. (ANI)