Age & Educational Qualification:

The minimum and the maximum age, educational qualification of the candidates for the posts shall be as mentioned below:

• Date of birth as recorded in the HSC certificate issued by the Board of Secondary Education, Odisha or equivalent certificate issued by any recognized Board/Council/Indian University shall only be accepted.
• The candidate must have the prescribed minimum educational qualification as on the closing date of submission of online application.

• Relaxation of upper age limit:
  1. The upper age limit is relaxable by 5 years for the candidates belonging to SC/ST/SEBC/Women category.
  2. The upper age limit is also relaxable by 10 years in case of Persons with Disabilities (PwD).
  3. The upper age limit is relaxable by the total period of service rendered in defence service in case of Ex-Servicemen. The persons in Defence Service having more than six months to retire or to be discharged from service as on the last date of the submission of online application are not eligible to apply for the post. Provided that those Ex-Servicemen who have already secured regular employment under the State Government in civil post and services would be permitted the benefit of age relaxation as admissible for Ex-Servicemen for securing another employment in any higher post or services under the State Government but such candidates shall not be eligible for the benefit of reservation, if any, for Ex-servicemen in the State Government.
  4. A candidate who comes under more than one category shall be eligible for only one benefit of relaxation which shall be considered most beneficial to him/her. Provided that Persons with Disabilities under SC/ST/SEBC category shall be entitled to cumulative age relaxation of ten years on account of their disability over and above the normal relaxation available to them as SC/ST/SEBC candidate.

• Group D Employee:A Group D employee who is not more than 40 years of age as on the 1 day of January of the year in which recruitment is made and otherwise eligible shall be eligible to appear in the examination and shall be considered for recruitment to the post of Junior Assistant only.

• Gram Rojagar Sevaks:In order to be eligible for the post of Panchayat Executive Officer, the Gram Rojagar Sevaks, engaged under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), who are less than 45 years of age and are otherwise eligible shall be eligible to appear in the examination and shall be considered for recruitment to the post of Panchayat Executive Officer only. Such candidates shall produce a certificate from the Collector of the concerned district regarding their continuity as Gram Rojagar Sevaks in support of their claim for verification to be done on a later date after the written test.

• A candidate must be able to speak, read and write Odia and have
  1. passed the Middle School Examination with Odia as a language subject; or
  2. passed Matriculation or equivalent examination with Odia as the medium of examination in non-language subjects; or
  3. passed in Odia as language subject in the final examination of Class-VII or above from a School or Educational Institution recognised by the Government of Odisha or Central Government; or
  4. passed a test in Odia in Middle English School Standard conducted by the School & Mass Education Department.

Other Eligibility Criteria: A candidate, in order to be eligible for the post, must be

• A citizen of India,
• Of good character,
• If married, must not have more than one spouse living. Provided that the Government may, if satisfied that such marriage is permissible under the personal law applicable to such person or there are other grounds for doing so, exempt any person from operation of the rule.
• Applicant(s) claiming reservation as Sportsperson must possess Sports Identity Card(s) issued by the Sports & Youth Services Department, Government of Odisha as on the date of submission of application and upload the scanned copy of original (not photo copy) Sports ID card online.
• The candidates must belong to that district only for which he/she is applying.
• The candidates must have registered his/her name in any Employment Exchange in the district concerned and have valid registration certificate on or before the date of submission of application. Those who have not registered in any Employment Exchange of the District and registered in any State/Special Employment Exchange they shall upload Resident Certificate in addition to Employment Exchange registration Certificate.
• Applicants claiming reservation under Persons with Disability (PwD) category must ensure that they possess Permanent Disability Certificate and belong to the category and sub-category of disability for which the post has been reserved, as mentioned under Notes below at Annexure-I & Il of the Advertisement (Physical Requirements and Functional Classification), as the case may be. They must upload the scanned copy of the original (not photo copy) Unique Disability Identity (UDID) card issued by the Competent Authority. Those who do not have UDID card must enrol/apply online for UDID card and mention the enrolment/application registration number in the specified text box of the online application. The disability certificate other than UDID card is not acceptable. Further, to take the help of scribe in appearing the Examination, they need to take written permission of the ADM-cum-District Superintendent concerned, at least three days prior to the date of Examination as per procedure. Scribe, extra time/additional time/compensatory time as admissible shall be allowed as per rules.
• Applicants claiming reservation as Ex-servicemen must have possessed Discharge Certificate/documents in support of service rendered in defence services and must furnish an undertaking to the effect that they have not availed of any re-employment under the Government of Odisha till the date of this application.
• If any candidate has, at any time been debarred from recruitment examination for a certain period by this Commission, he/she shall not be eligible for appearing the same for that specific period.