BENGALURU: A former Namma Metro employee and whistleblower alleged that BMRCL has appointed several employees without qualification and experience in its HR department.
“Many HR personnel were appointed without following the due recruitment procedure of notifying the posts in newspapers and without holding interviews. According to Metro’s cadre and recruitment rules, candidates should have postgraduate degree in any discipline or MBA (HR), MSW (HR), and have relevant years of HR experience either in government or PSUs,” the whistleblower said in a complaint to the BMRCL management.
“BMRCL has made a series of HR appointments, especially of retired government officers, without the required postgraduate degree and HR experience,” the complaint read.
“Many of them are BA/BSC graduates, retired from government departments such as revenue, finance, police and aged 65 and above. The BMRCL HR department has become a rehabilitation centre for retired and aged government employees without qualification and experience, who are enjoying perks, salary and government pension at the cost of the public exchequer,” the complainant added.
STOI has a list of nine officials appointed and five of them are above the age of 65.
However, BMRCL managing director Anjum Parwez said: “We always look for an experienced person in higher positions on contract basis and we extend people above 65 years only in cases where the person is essential to the organisation. In general, we are cutting down...
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