ACCOUNTABILITY MUST FOR NEW ODISHA HIRING PANEL

HE Odisha cabinet recently cleared the creation of an umbrella recruitment agency to hire personnel for uniformed services in the state.

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The proposed Odisha Uniformed Services Staff Selection Commission will be responsible for recruiting staff across ranks for four key departments—home, excise, forest, and commerce & transport. The move follows a string of failed hiring exercises, mostly for the state police. The cancellation of police sub-inspector recruitment twice in eight months proved to be the last straw. Charges of question paper leaks from a compromised system prompted the government to hand the probe to the CBI and seek a dedicated recruitment panel that will reportedly be on the lines of the one for the armed forces. On the face of it, the idea addresses a cr