The Karnataka Police Recruitment Division has released the physical fitness and endurance test schedule for 19,396 eligible candidates competing for 3,991 civil police constable posts across the state, with testing beginning on September 28.
The recruitment process covers vacancies in the residual parent cadre, or RPC, and the Kalyana Karnataka, or KK, cadre. Eligible candidates must report at the designated physical test centre on the date assigned to them. Call letters can be downloaded from the official Karnataka Examinations Authority website.
For the RPC cadre, 2,015 posts have been notified and 9,887 candidates have qualified for the physical tests. Tests for candidates from Bengaluru and the surrounding central zone will be held at multiple locations. These include the CAR (Headquarters) ground at Sirsi Circle in Chamarajpet, the CAR (South) ground in Adugodi and the CAR (North) ground in RK Hegde Nagar.
The central zone covers Chikkaballapur, Kolar, Tumakuru, Bengaluru district and railway units. For 200 posts, 946 candidates will take the test from September 28 to October 3 at the Third Battalion Karnataka State Reserve Police ground opposite Madiwala Market in Koramangala, Bengaluru.
In the southern zone, 1,891 candidates competing for 395 posts from Mysuru city, Mysuru district, Hassan, Kodagu, Chamarajanagar and Mandya units will be tested from September 28 to October 5 at the City Armed Reserve parade ground behind the Race Course in Mysuru. The eastern zone covers Shivamogga, Haveri, Davanagere and Chitradurga units, where 1,234 candidates for 250 posts will take tests from September 29 to October 6 at the field of Keladi Shivappa Nayaka University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences in Navile, Shivamogga.
The western zone has scheduled tests for 1,803 candidates competing for 395 posts from Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Chikkamagaluru and Mangaluru city units. These tests will be held from September 28 to October 3 at Mangaluru’s Mangala Stadium in Lalbagh. Candidates for 110 posts in the northern zone, covering Gadag and Hubballi-Dharwad city units, will report on September 29 and 30 at the Second Battalion Karnataka State Reserve Police ground near VTU in Belagavi.
For the Ballari RPC zone, 144 candidates competing for 30 posts from Ballari and Raichur units will take the test on October 5 and 6 at the Karnataka State Reserve Police Police Training School ground at Hosahalli near Munirabad in Koppal district.
The KK cadre schedule includes 833 candidates for 171 posts under the Bengaluru city commissionerate area. Their tests will be held on October 8 simultaneously at the CAR parade grounds in Chamarajpet and Adugodi. At the Ballari zone for KK units, 869 candidates competing for 174 posts from Koppal, Raichur, Ballari and Vijayanagara units will be tested from October 12 to 15 at the Karnataka State Reserve Police training ground in Hosahalli, Munirabad.
In the northeastern zone, 1,240 candidates for 251 posts from Kalaburagi city, Kalaburagi district and Bidar units will take the physical tests from October 12 to 14 at the Sixth Battalion Karnataka State Reserve Police ground in Taj Sultanpur, Kalaburagi. The Police Recruitment Division has directed all eligible candidates to report at their assigned centres on the scheduled dates.
