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KPCL told to conduct Kannada language test again
The New Indian Express Mangaluru
|January 11, 2025
NOTING that the Karnataka Power Corporation Limited's (KPCL) unilateral action to prescribe minimum qualifying marks after conducting the test constitutes a substantive alteration of eligibility criterion, the Karnataka High Court directed KPCL to conduct a reexamination of the Kannada language test for the selection of Junior Engineer (Mechanical) and Assistant Engineer (Mechanical) under Hyderabad Karnataka quota and Non-Hyderabad Karnataka quota, notifying maximum and minimum qualifying marks before conducting the test as per norms.
"While the recruitment notification clearly prescribed a maximum of 150 marks for the Kannada language test, the subsequent unilateral fixation of a minimum of 50 marks as qualifying marks after the examination that had already been conducted cannot be considered a fair or transparent action. It falls squarely within the firs
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