bengaluru the expose of alleged irregularities and corruption in the ongoing process to recruit 545 police subinspectors has again brought to the fore the rotten recruitment system in state government departments and the karnataka public service commission kpscthere have been a plethora of similar allegations in the past and consecutive governments had promised mechanisms and ways to eradicate the evil but none have systematically addressed the problem to end it once and for all nor have they instilled confidence among job seekersthe state has a long history of recruitmentrelated scams going back to 1998 when the recruitment of gazetted probationers was marred by allegations of corruption and examination malpractices since then every drive to recruit a batch of gazetted probationers for which notifications were issued in 1999 2004 2008 and 2011 has been entangled in legal battles if meritorious candidates have lost faith in the system it is entirely understandablewhile legal battles with regard to the 1998 2004 and 2008 batches have gone on for years before they were disposed of the siddaramaiahled congress government had to even cancel the provisional list of the 2011 batch recruitments following allegations of largescale corruptionthat decision was upheld by the high court and the supreme court ironically seven years later the current dispensation has taken a decision to accept the same provisional list and the process of issuing appointment orders is currently onthe fact that there has hardly been any recruitments from kas officers to police subinspectors and second division assistants without accusations of corruption or irregularities in the past two decades holds a mirror to deeprooted dubious practices and a flawed system said an ias officerbesides corruption in recruitments complaints of inordinate delay in conducting exams and announcement of results have also abounded for example kpsc is yet to announce the results of the gazetted probationers exam conducted oneandhalf years agothe results of exams conducted to fill 230 posts of drawing teachers 250 posts of engineers in various urban local bodies and 971 posts of first division assistants were announced after a delay of nearly three years and that too only after repeated protests by candidates what we have been seeing for the past several years with regard to recruitment to government posts is very frustrating said former minister and bjp mla suresh kumar who once led a protest against kpsc for delaying the announcement of results of exams for recruiting drawing teachers and fdas it is time the government made some serious efforts to end corruption and malpractice once and for all otherwise youngsters will lose faith in the system which is not good for society he also appealed to political parties politicians and bureaucrats to refrain from interfering in the recruitment processdn munikrishna former kpsc member and retired police officer said the only way to address this problem is to ensure people with integrity and honesty are appointed to key posts in kpsc and other government recruitment agencies but given the situation this is easier said than done