In a gathering chaired by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, the Karnataka cupboard on Thursday determined to scale back the cut-off marks for core topics and languages within the schoolteacher recruitment examination.
J C Madhuswamy, minister of regulation and parliamentary affairs, instructed reporters later that the cut-off marks can be decreased from 50 to 45 for core topics and from 60 to 50 for languages.
“The choice to scale back the cut-off marks was taken final yr after assessing that there can be round 2,000 vacancies after recruitment. Nonetheless, the recruitment course of had already begun. So we didn’t need to implement the choice as a result of it will result in litigation,” Madhusawamy stated.
The minister stated the candidates can be shortlisted after contemplating 10 per cent of their of pre-university course marks, 20 per cent of their diploma marks and 20 per cent of their B Ed marks. They might be appointed on the premise of advantage.
Recruitment of 15,000 lecturers for the present educational yr is underway, he added.
The minister additionally introduced that the cupboard had authorised Rs 15 crore to develop a laboratory at Raichur College.