BOARD OF REVENUE,ODISHA

About Departmental Examination Conducted by Board Of Revenue

                  Board of Revenue conducts the Departmental Examination of Officers twice in a year (1st Half yearly Examination in June & 2nd Half Yearly Examination in December, Centrally at Cuttack) by orders of the Board of Examiners comprising of Member, Board of Revenue as Chairman, D.G. of Police and L.R. Law Department, Odisha as its Member & Secretary, Board of Revenue is the Director of Examination. Officers of about 23 services namely, IAS, IPS, IFS, OAS, OFS(Odisha Finance Service), ORS, FS(Forest Service), PWD Civil Eng. Service(CE), Electrical & Mechanical Eng. Service(E&ME), OMS, OGS, OWS, OCSS, Excise Service(ES), TE&TS, T&S, Fisheries Service, FB&IS, OLS, Industries Service(IS) etc take part in this examination. There are total of 64 papers (53-Written papers & 11 Viva-Voce). It conducts examination in ODIA for officers of all the above services, who haven’t passed HSC/CBSE/ICSE & Higher equivalent exams with ODIA as a subject.

            It also conducts the Annual Departmental Examination on ACCOUNTS & OFFICE PROCEDURE / LAW & STATUTORY RULES FOR REGISTRATION OFFICIALS/ SPL. EXAMINATION IN ODIA in respect of officers of Odisha Ministerial Service & Odisha District Revenue Service of all Districts. It is held once in a year at the respective district headquarters.(at last week of December)

            It also conducts the Final Examination of RIs / ARIs & Amin trainees of all R.I.T.I.s regularly throughout the year.

              Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is an effective tool for integrating and automating various activities of examination system at different administrative levels to bring reliable, efficient, scalable, transparent and robust e‐governance solutions. Online Departmental Examination System (ODES) will ensure efficiency and effectiveness in the examination system and render convenience of on‐line queries by cutting down time and cost, thus bringing a sea change in the existing manual examination system. Various features of ODES are :