Officers of the village received notebooks by the main Minister Siddaramaiah in the program in Vishan Juděh in Bengalur on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar
Up to 1,000 jobs of a village administrative officer (former accounting village) were filled in a transparent and crazy way by the Ministry of Income without a single accusation of corruption or illegality, the main Minister Siddaramaiah said on Tuesday.
All selected candidates were given his job orders in the program held in Vishan Juděh for the purpose of publishing a book on the success of the Ministry of Income in the last two years.
Siddaramaiaha, who expressed his happiness over the filling of contributions in a transparent and crazy way, tried to compare it to recruitment of more than one teacher Lakh of the then primary and secondary education minister Govinde Gowd in 1994-95.
More posts to be filled in
While he stated that the state had a total of 9,834 VAO jobs, he said that while 8 003 VAO was already working, another 1,000 will join them. The government would ensure that none of these contributions remain unoccupied, he said.
The Minister of Income Krishna Byre Gowda said that this process was so transparent and crazy that no one, including himself could manipulate him at the highest level.
He pointed out that previously such recruitment was held at the district level, and said that the ministry took the initiative at the state level recruitment through the Karnataka Office to fill such a record number of contributions. “Up to 6,33,916 members applied for 1,000 contributions, resulting in a hard competition, which followed the selection of only 0.0016% of candidates,” he said.
Laptops listed
Meanwhile, 4,000 VAOs were provided on this occasion as part of a government initiative to digitize the functioning of the income department to the village level. He stressed that VAO was currently spent most of the time commuting to the Taluk offices to either collect or supplied Tapals (official letters), said such an archaic practice delayed the process of liquidating petitions presented by people.
Published – 29 April 2025 21:05
