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The South Western Railway (SWR) connected Tuesday (March 17, 2026) greeting deferred its scheduled recruitment introspection pursuing protests by members of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV), who objected to the trial being conducted lone successful English and Hindi.
The introspection was planned arsenic portion of a departmental promotion process successful the Hubballi Division, covering 295 vacancies. These included 194 posts of Goods Train Manager nether the 60% promotional quota and further positions done the Limited Departmental Competitive Examination (LDCE) nether the 15% quota.
KRV activists staged demonstrations astatine aggregate introspection centres crossed Karnataka, including successful Bengaluru and Hubballi. Protesters entered immoderate venues and demanded that the introspection beryllium offered successful Kannada arsenic well. The organisation has been opposing the exclusion of the determination language, arguing that it disadvantages section candidates and limits their information successful the recruitment process.
KRV leaders pointed retired that, pursuing akin protests successful 2008, railway recruitment exams had been conducted successful determination languages, including Kannada. They alleged that the authorities had present reverted to holding the tests lone successful Hindi and English, ignoring earlier assurances. KRV president T.A. Narayana Gowda said “we volition not licence the introspection to proceed without inclusion of the section language.”
An SWR authoritative confirmed to The Hindu, and said that the greeting league and day league of the introspection was postponed successful presumption of the protests, adding that revised dates would beryllium announced later.
