<p>Facing staff shortages, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has received permission to hire 197 engineers on a contract basis. </p>.<p>Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday revealed that the state government had cleared the BBMP’s proposal to hire the engineers. </p>.<p>The 197 engineers will be outsourced from the Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd (KEONICS), it is learnt.</p>.<p>They will fill up the posts at ward and divisional offices where some engineers have been holding dual charges due to a shortage of manpower. </p>.<p>Officials said there’d been a shortage of assistant and junior engineers after some of them were promoted to assistant executive engineers.</p>.<p>“The new engineers will be posted in wards and divisions that do not have adequate engineers,” said K A Dayananda, Special Commissioner (Administration), BBMP. </p>.<p>This recruitment is not connected to the ongoing exercise of raising the number of wards from 198 to 243. </p>.<p><strong>Watch the latest DH Videos here:</strong></p>
<p>Facing staff shortages, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has received permission to hire 197 engineers on a contract basis. </p>.<p>Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday revealed that the state government had cleared the BBMP’s proposal to hire the engineers. </p>.<p>The 197 engineers will be outsourced from the Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd (KEONICS), it is learnt.</p>.<p>They will fill up the posts at ward and divisional offices where some engineers have been holding dual charges due to a shortage of manpower. </p>.<p>Officials said there’d been a shortage of assistant and junior engineers after some of them were promoted to assistant executive engineers.</p>.<p>“The new engineers will be posted in wards and divisions that do not have adequate engineers,” said K A Dayananda, Special Commissioner (Administration), BBMP. </p>.<p>This recruitment is not connected to the ongoing exercise of raising the number of wards from 198 to 243. </p>.<p><strong>Watch the latest DH Videos here:</strong></p>
