Karnataka issues notification to fill 814 lecturer posts in govt. PU colleges

The State government has issued a notification approving the filling of 814 vacant lecturer posts in government pre-university (PU) colleges under the School Education Department (Pre-University).

The approval covers the direct recruitment of 36 posts across seven subjects reserved for the Kalyana Karnataka (KK) region and 778 posts across 10 subjects under the Non-Kalyana Karnataka (NKK) cadre.

The government has decided to fill these posts through a competitive examination to be conducted by the Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA).

There are currently over 3,500 vacant lecturer posts across the State’s 1,371 government PU colleges. The government had previously filled around 1,500 lecturer posts in 2022, and no recruitment drive has been conducted since then.