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.

This year, the government has decided to recruit lecturers in the following subjects: Kannada (89), English (145), History (50), Economics (90), Political Science (25), Sociology (25), Geography (10), Commerce (150), Physics (30), Chemistry (30), Mathematics (30), Biology (30), and Computer Science (110).

Meanwhile, the Karnataka General Services (Pre-University Education) (Recruitment) Rules, 2013, were recently amended to enable PU lecturers to teach classes 9 and 10 as well. Accordingly, lecturers recruited against the newly sanctioned 814 posts will also be required to teach classes 9 and 10.