Leader of Opposition in Odisha Assembly Pradipta Kumar Naik has appealed to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to allow candidates, who had appeared at the Odisha Civil Services (OCS) examination in the years 2011, 2015, 2016 and 2017, to reappear at the 2020 examination, for which the extended date of filling of applications is March 31.
While pointing out that during the 2000-2015 period the OCS examinations have been conducted only thrice, Naik urged the Government and the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) to conduct regular examinations every year so that many aspirants are not deprived. Naik in a letter to the CM on Monday has categorically stated that as the GA & PG Department has allowed unsuccessful candidates of OCS exam 2018-19 to appear in the 2020 and has not changed the rules for all candidates appeared in 2011, 2015, 2016 and 2017, many aspirants who had appeared at the 2011 exam couldn’t qualify but are eager to appear at the upcoming exam though having crossed the upper age limit.
Naik further stated that Government has given relaxation of upper age limit tocandidates who could not qualify in OCS 2015 to appear in OCS 2016 and later also relaxed age to appear in OCS 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, for which they got five chances to appear after expiry of their age limits.