Chief Secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik will be the next chairman of the Odisha Staff Selection Commission (OSSC).
Patnaik, an IAS officer of the 1976 batch, who is retiring from Government service on June 30, will assume his new assignment after his superannuation as the Chief Secretary, said sources.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has cleared the file concerning the post-retirement appointment of BK Patnaik.
The post of Chairman of the OSSC now being officiated by its Member Debendra Kumar Dhal has fallen vacant after the expiry of the tenure of the previous incumbent Suresh Chandra Mohanty since April.
The OSSC, set up in 1994, is a statutory body that carries out direct recruitment of Group-C posts in the State cadre.
There are some 85 different cadres of posts/services under various departments of the State Government, to which recruitment is made through this commission.