Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Cabinet on Monday approved a proposal to amend the Odisha Uniformed Services Staff Selection Commission (OUSSSC) Rules, 2025, to expand the recruitment mandate of the commission.
The amendment will enable the OUSSSC, constituted under the General Administration and Public Grievance Department, to conduct recruitment for Group-B posts carrying Level-9 pay in the Pay Matrix under the Odisha Revised Scales of Pay Rules, 2017, besides all Group-C posts specified in Schedule-I of the rules.
The commission is currently responsible for recruitment to uniformed services under the Home, Excise, Forest, Environment and Climate Change, and Commerce and Transport departments.
The amendment will also empower the government to include, exclude or alter the nomenclature of services or posts listed in Schedule-I in accordance with the relevant recruitment rules. Further, the commission will be authorised to prescribe the examination pattern, mode, scheme, syllabus and cut-off marks for combining different uniformed services for conducting a Combined Recruitment Examination (CRE).
The Cabinet approved framing of the Odisha Uniformed Services Staff Selection Commission (Amendment) Rules, 2026.
