One exam, one application fee: KEA plans common recruitment test for FDA, SDA posts across 33 Karnataka departments

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Prasanna.Earlier, even when posts required similar educational qualifications, each department had to issue separate notifications, invite applications and conduct individual written examinations. This placed an additional financial burden on candidates.Under the new system, candidates can apply for posts across multiple departments through a single application and pay a single application fee.

This will help reduce delays and inconvenience, he explained.KEA has developed software that automatically carries forward the details of candidates who had previously applied for posts such as Village Administrative Officer (VAO), Land Surveyor, Agriculture Officer and Assistant Agriculture Officer.

Such candidates only need to log in and pay the required application fee to complete the submission process.Similar to the admission process for medical, engineering and other professional courses, KEA will prepare recruitment lists based on merit and applicable reservation categories.Just as students are allowed to indicate their preferred colleges and courses in order of priority during counselling, candidates will now have to list their preferred departments and posts in order of preference.Based on the marks obtained by candidates, posts will be allotted accordingly.

Ultimately, each candidate will be allotted only one post, he explained.KEA is also considering conducting examinations twice a year for posts requiring similar educational qualifications.For instance, recruitment requests received from various departments between January and June could be grouped together, with a common application process and examination conducted for all the posts.Subsequently, recruitment requests received from departments during the remaining months of the year could be covered through another examination in December, followed by the publication of selection lists.

Get the latest Education News and Live updates. Download the TOI app. Sruthy Susan Ullas is an assistant editor with over 14 years of experience and writes extensively on education. Her work focuses on government policies across educational departments—ranging from primary and secondary to higher, and medical education-- offering in-depth analysis and reporting on how they shape the academic landscape in Karnataka.

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