Overview
- The state Cabinet approved raising the direct-recruitment target to 72,186 and set a target to complete notifications, exams and appointment orders within six months, a decision announced Friday.
- A Department of Personnel circular assigns two senior monitors, Uma Mahadevan and Gaurav Gupta, and two Additional Chief Secretaries to ensure notifications are issued within two months and exams finished within four months.
- The Finance Department has already cleared 40,009 posts since 2023–24 and approved filling 80% of vacancies in Kalyana Karnataka, leaving 32,177 posts earmarked for that region under Article 371J.
- Public hiring had been stalled since 2023 by court challenges to expanded internal reservation; the Cabinet has rolled back some internal quotas for SC and ST to bring the overall reservation back to the 50% ceiling but some litigation and conditional appointments still affect specific cases.
- The restart could deliver jobs to thousands of candidates and ease street protests, but timelines face risks from ongoing court rulings and department-level delays given the state’s large share of vacant and outsourced posts.