The Kannada Development Authority (KDA) on Friday said “injustice” has been meted out to Kannadigas in the process to recruit 42 ‘C’ cadre personnel by New India Assurance, a public sector insurance firm.
The firm has decided to conduct oral interviews for candidates to fill 42 posts on Saturday. Candidates who are well-versed in Kannada are eligible. However, the selection panel which will conduct the oral test has no member from the KDA, said KDA chairman S.G. Siddaramaiah.
He told reporters here on Friday that he had explained to the company’s divisional head Chiranjivi Reddy the “flaws” in the recruitment process. Though the KDA had written to banking and insurance recruitment boards in the past seeking involvement of KDA members in the selection panel for recruiting candidates having writing and speaking fluency in Kannada, the insurance firm had not invited any KDA member for the process, he said.
Heads of insurance and banks appoint personnel from their own States following their own recruitment procedure and this had caused “injustice” to meritorious Kannada candidates, Mr. Siddaramaiah alleged.
He alleged that a majority of the candidates recruited by the Railway Recruitment Board and Banking Recruitment Board in Bengaluru in the last few years were from other States. He criticised the Centre’s 2016 banking recruitment policy.
