Date: 25/08/2021
Close on the heels of the corruption allegations emerging in the recruitment process of Odisha Staff Selection Commission (OSSC), charges of irregularities have now been levelled against the evaluation process of answer sheets in Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) Examination. Rajat Kumar Mishra, an OPSC candidate from Dhamnagar in Bhadrak district had appeared the OAS exam in 2015 but could not make it to the final merit list despite doing well in the mains and the interview round. Rajat says that he later filed an application before the Commission to get a copy of his answer sheet to see what went wrong. Though he got a delayed response after a year in 2016, he was shocked to find that the mark awarded to him in the sheet (117) was later changed to 50 without citing any reason. When he knocked the doors of the OPSC to know the truth behind the reduction in his marks, he alleged that he did not get any help.“The examiner had awarded 117 in the answer sheet but the score was later changed to 50. Though everyone is admitting that there was a mistake in the evaluation, I could not get justice. However, the concerned authorities told that the marks awarded to me earlier were also not enough to crack the examination,” alleged Rajat.
