Recruitment Exam for Group-B Posts of Odisha Police Postponed, Here’s Why

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Thursday put on hold the written examination for recruitment of Group-B posts in the police department due to "unavoidable circumstances", an official statement said on Thursday. 

The exams were set to be held on March 8-9 at different centres across Odisha. 

The decision to postpone the recruitment exam come amid several aspirants raising objections over the conduct of two written examinations for Assistant Agriculture Officer (AAO) and Group-B posts in the police department on March 9.

The aspirants had demanded postponement of at least one test. 

OPRB had issued advertisements for recruitment for 933 vacancies in the police department, including 609 sub-inspector posts, 253 SI (armed) posts, 47 station officer (fire service) posts and 24 assistant jailor posts.

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Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE) has postponed exams for Classes 10, 11, and 12 in the hard zones of J&K and Ladakh.

The decision was made by the school education board, keeping in mind the poor weather conditions. The dates have been revised for those examinations that were set to be held on March 1 and 3. 

According to the official notice, the exam for the General English subject of Class 12th, which was earlier scheduled for March 1, will now be held on March 24. 

For Class 10, now the examination of the Hindi/Urdu subjects will be held on March 25. It was scheduled to be held on March 1.