Reliance General to hire over 4,000 retail agents

Private insurer Reliance General Insurance plans to hire over 4,000 retails agents as part of its strategy to boost business and growth, PTI reported. /“Our retail agent base has helped us achieve a significant turnaround in performance and we will continue to add more agents to increase profitability,/” Reliance General Insurance Chief Executive Officer Rakesh Jain said in a release issued here today.

The company had hired 4,200 agents in the financial year 2012-13 to take its agents strength to 10,700. /“We have achieved three consecutive quarters of profit and would like to see that continue with additional agents force, among other things,/” Jain said. Reliance General would like to add over 4,000 agents in FY 2014 to take its total strength to 15,000 by fiscal-end, he said.