Bengaluru: Nearly 50% of the candidates, who applied for the KPSC probationers examination conducted by KPSC on Monday for 106 posts, didn’t appear for the examination.
According to KPSC examination controller Divya Prabhu, a total of 1,65,250 candidates had applied for the examination and only 83,716 of them appeared. The rest are absentees.
As many as 45 candidates who tested positive for Covid-19 also appeared for the examination.
Sources said that compared to 2015, the number of applicants dropped by about half as there were no assistant commissioners’ posts and a majority of the posts have been reserved for people from the Hyderabad Karnataka region.
