Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Civil Services Preliminary Examination-2023 is scheduled to be held on October 27 (Sunday).

The Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) today issued a notification in this regard.

The OPSC has decided to conduct the Odisha Civil Services Preliminary Examination-2023, pursuant to Advertisement No. 20 of 2023-24, tentatively on 27.10.2024 (Sunday), read the notification.

The detailed programme of the examination will be notified later, it added.  

Notably, the OPSC had invited applications from eligible candidates for 399 posts of Odisha civil services including Odisha Administrative Service (OAS), Odisha Finance Service (OFS), Odisha Police Service (OPS) and Odisha Revenue Service (ORS) for the year 2023.

The candidates had been asked to submit their applications through online mode in between January 17 and February 16 this year.

The OPSC will conduct the combined competitive recruitment examinations in two successive stages—preliminary and main.

The candidates will have to answer objective-type questions in the preliminary examination. The successful candidates will sit for the written examination.

On the basis of their scores in the written examination, the candidates will be invited for personal interview for final selection for Odisha Civil Services.