Friday, 9 March 2012

ORISSA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION INVITES APPLICATION FOR JUDICIAL SERVICE EXAMINATION - 2012

Applications in the prescribed short (OMR) form are invited from candidates for admission to the competitive examination consisting of three parts, viz - Preliminary Written Examination, Main Written Examination and Interview to be conducted by the Odisha Public Service Commission under the provisions of the Odisha Superior Judicial Service & Odisha Judicial Service Rules, 2007 ( as amended from time to time) for recruitment to 55 posts of Civil Judges in Odisha Judicial Service under Law Department by direct recruitment in the Pay Scale of Rs. 27,700-770-33,090-920-40,450-1080-44,770/-, with usual Dearness Allowances and other allowances as sanctioned by the Government of Odisha from time to time.

The Examination Code is and the Post Code is ,which should be mentioned by the candidates at the appropriate place of column no. 2 & 3 of the short application form.

VACANCY POSITION: As per requisition filed by the Law Department, the vacancy position alongwith reservation thereof is given below:
Sl. No.  Category        No. of  Vacancies Category-wise    Category-wise reservation for Women
(i)      Un-reserved                           27                                                         09
(ii)     Scheduled Caste                      09                                                        03
(iii)    Scheduled Tribe                      12                                                         04
(iv)    S.E.B.C.                                 06                                                         02
(v) Orthopaedically Handicapped        01                                                         ---
                                           Total:- 55                                                         18
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE :
1-A candidate must be a Graduate in Law of a University or Institution recognized by the Government.
2- A Superintendent or a Ministerial Officer in the High Court or any Civil or Criminal Court sub-ordinate to the High Court or an Assistant Law Officer or Translator of the Law Department of Government, shall also be eligible for appearing at the Competitive Examination for recruitment to the posts of Civil Judges in Odisha Judicial Service, if he/she is a Graduate in Law of a University recognized by the Government, has approved service in the High Court or in any Civil or Criminal Court sub-ordinate to the High Court or in the Law Department of not less than seven years by the last date fixed for receipt of applications for the said Competitive Examination, has been recommended by the respective appointing authority; and is not more than 39 (thirty nine years) of age on the 1st August, 2012. ‘Approved Service’ for this purpose means qualifying service as defined in the Odisha Civil Service (Pension) Rules, 1992.
3- A candidate of the above category should furnish, with his/her long application, necessary evidence to the effect that his/her case has been recommended by the competent authority and that he /she satisfies the aforesaid conditions of eligibility.

OTHER ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS :
(i) A candidate must be a citizen of India;
(ii) He/She must be of good character and of sound health and free from any organic defects and physical infirmity (not applicable in case of Orthopaedically Handicapped);
(iii) He/She must be able to speak, read and write Oriya fluently and must have passed an examination in Odia Language equivalent to that of Middle English School standard; 
(iv) A candidate, who has more than one spouse living or in case of a woman candidate, if married to a person having one spouse living, shall not be eligible for appearing at the examination: 
Provided that the State Government may, if satisfied that such marriage is permissible under the Personal Law applicable to such person or there are other grounds for so doing, exempt any person from the operation of this rule;
(v) Government Servants, whether permanent or temporary or on probation against a vacancy in permanent posts in any Department of Government, are eligible to appear at the examination, provided they possess the requisite qualification and are within the prescribed age limit as provided under Para-4 & 5 of this advertisement. However, they are required to submit undertaking to the effect that they have informed in writing to their Head of Office/Department that they have applied for the examination. Further, they will be required to enclose, attested copy of the “No Objection Certificate” issued by the appointing authority, with the long application to be submitted after qualifying in the preliminary written examination for appearing at the main written examination.
Candidates should note that in case a communication is received from their employer by the Commission withholding permission to the candidates applying for/appearing at the examination, their applications will be liable to be rejected/ candidature will be liable to be cancelled;
(vi) If a candidate has, at any time, been debarred for a certain period/chance(s) by the Odisha Public Service Commission or other State Public Service Commission or U.P.S.C. from appearing at any Examination/Interview, he/she will not be eligible for such recruitment for that specified period/chance(s);
(vii) Only those candidates, who possess the requisite qualifications and fulfil other eligibility conditions by the closing date of receipt of applications, will be considered eligible;
(viii) The selected candidates must be physically fit and shall be required to appear before the State Medical Board before final appointment.
(ix) The period of probation is for two years. The period of probation may be extended by the appointing authority on the recommendation of the High Court by such period not exceeding a further period of two years.

OTHER CONDITIONS :

(i) The provisions of the Odisha Conduct of Examinations Act,1988(Odisha Act-2 of 1988) are applicable to this examination (preliminary & main) conducted by the Odisha Public Service Commission. Any violation of the provisions of the above Act and violation of instructions to candidates (as provided in the advertisement, application forms, brochure, admission certificates and answer scripts etc.) will be seriously viewed and disciplinary action will be taken against the concerned candidates as deemed proper;

(ii) At present, applications in the short form are invited from candidates for admission to the Odisha Judicial Service Preliminary Written Examination only. After declaration of result of the Preliminary Written Examination, the candidates who qualify in the Preliminary Written Examination, should download the prescribed Long Application form, from the website of the Commission and submit the said Long Application duly filled in (including Roll Number) along with the required documents, to the Commission’s office within the stipulated date for consideration of their eligibility for admission to the Main Written Examination.

N. B: - THE LONG APPLICATION FORM WILL NOT BE SENT BY POST FROM THE OFFICE OF O.P.S.C. TO THE CANDIDATES WHO QUALIFY IN THE PRELIMINARY WRITTEN EXAMINATION. HOWEVER, IF ANY CANDIDATE FACES ANY DIFFICULTY IN DOWN-LOADING THE PRESCRIBD LONG APPLICATION FORM FROM THE WEBSITE OF THE COMMISSION, HE/SHE SHOULD CONTACT O.P.S.C. FACILITATION COUNTER AS INDICATED IN PARA- 14 OF THE ADVERTISEMENT.

DATE(S) OF EXAMINATION :
(i) The preliminary written examination is likely to be held in the month of May 2012. The venue of examination with detailed Examination Programme will be notified well in advance.
(ii) The main written examination is likely to be held in the month of July 2012 in respect of the candidates, who qualify in the preliminary written examination. The place of examination with detailed programme will be notified well in advance.

EXAMINATION FEE :
A candidate is required to pay a non-refundable and non-adjustable fee of Rs..100/- (Rupees one hundred) only either in shape of deposit of the amount in the Government Treasury under the Head “0051-PSC-105-State PSC - Examination Fee” or Account Payee Bank Draft/Pay Order drawn in favour of the Special Secretary, Odisha Public Service Commission payable at any Scheduled Bank at Cuttack. Treasury Chalan with wrong mention of head of account or wrong mention of designation of the authority in the Bank Draft/Pay Order shall not be accepted. The Original Treasury Chalan/Bank Draft/Pay Order, as the case may be, must be sent to the Commission along with the short application. Candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes of Odisha only are exempted from payment of this fee. Neither claim for refund of fee will be entertained nor will the fee be held in reserve for any other recruitment/purpose. APPLICATIONS NOT ACCOMPANIED BY THE PRESCRIBED FEE SHALL BE SUMMARILY REJECTED.

HOW TO APPLY :
(i) Application Form : Candidates are required to apply to the Special Secretary to the Commission in the prescribed short application form which, along with a brochure containing general instructions for filling up the form, a copy of long advertisement containing the details of the recruitment, an acknowledgement card and a special envelope for sending the short application to the Commission’s office, can be obtained from the Commission’s office on payment of cash of Rs..30/- (Rupees thirty) only between 11.00 A.M. & 1.30 P.M. and 2.00 P.M. & 4.00 P.M. on any working day or by Speed Post/Registered Post on remittance of Rs..70/- (Rupees seventy) only by Bank Draft/Pay Order drawn in favour of Special Secretary, Odisha Public Service Commission payable at any Scheduled Bank at Cuttack with a forwarding letter addressed to the Special Secretary, O.P.S.C., Cuttack mentioning full name & address of the candidate, Advertisement Number and name of the Post/Service advertised in BOLD CAPITAL LETTERS.
(ii) If the letter along with Bank Draft/Pay Order from any candidate, for supply of prescribed application form, is received in the office of the O.P.S.C. after the last date for receipt of applications, no application form will be supplied to such candidates;
(iii) Candidates must follow instructions meticulously for filling up the short application form as enumerated in the brochure enclosed;
(iv) APPLICATIONS WITHOUT REQUIRED AMOUNT OF FEE, WITHOUT PHOTOGRAPH, WITHOUT LEFT THUMB IMPRESSION AND DECLARATION NOT SIGNED BY THE CANDIDATES (ALSO NOT SIGNED AT ALL THE PLACES PROVIDED FOR SIGNATURE OF THE CANDIDATE) IN SHORT APPLICATION FORM, APPLICATIONS WITHOUT CHOICE OF CENTRES, APPLICATIONS WITHOUT MENTION/WITHOUT DARKENING OF CODE NUMBERS OF THREE OPTIONAL SUBJECTS AND/OR INCOMPLETE IN ANY RESPECT WILL BE SUMMARILY REJECTED. SIMILARLY, APPLICATIONS RECEIVED LATE AND APPLICATIONS FROM OVERAGED AND UNDERAGED CANDIDATES WILL ALSO BE SUMMARILY REJECTED;

(v) Candidates are required to keep the Short (OMR) application form in the special envelope, supplied by the Commission’s office, after filling in the same.
The candidates must take due care in handling and folding the short application form.

(vi) Candidates are advised to send their applications in prescribed form by registered post/speed post/courier service to the Special Secretary, Odisha Public Service Commission, 19, Dr. P.K. Parija Road, Cuttack-753001. The Commission will not take any responsibility if the application is not received in time. They may also deliver their applications in closed covers personally at the Commission’s office Counter against proper acknowledgement receipt on or before the last date for receipt of application on working days between 10.30 A.M. & 1.30 P.M. and 2.00 P.M & 5.00 P.M.

(vii) CANDIDATES SHOULD VERIFY THE FOLLOWING BEFORE MAILING/SENDING THE APPLICATIONS:

(a) That you have used the Short (OMR) application form meant for ODISHA JUDICIAL SERVICE EXAMINATION purchased from the office of the O.P.S.C. only;

(b) That you have filled in all the relevant columns of the application form by blackening the appropriate circles by H.B. Pencil and also written the corresponding code(s) in the boxes. It may be carefully checked that there is no variation between the entries made by you by darkening the circles and those written in the accompanying boxes;

(c) That you have affixed your recent photograph in black and white (unsigned and unattested) in column-15 of the application form;

(d) That you have put your full signatures in the appropriate boxes against Columns 16 and 24 of the application form;

(e) That you have put your left thumb impression in the relevant box against Column No. 17 of the Short Application Form;

(f) That you have filled in the acknowledgement card (supplied along with the application form) and affixed postage stamp of Rs.6/- at the appropriate place of the card and inserted it into the special envelope meant for mailing your application to the Commission;

(g) That in case you are required to pay examination fee of Rs.100/-, the Original Treasury Chalan/Bank Draft/Pay Order, as the case may be, should be accompanied with your application and inserted into the special envelope before sealing the envelope by gum for despatch;

(h) That you have written the name of the Examination Zone, Examination Zone Code, your name and address (including PIN Code) in the appropriate spaces provided on the envelope meant for despatch of the application form;
(i) The special envelope should contain only three things, viz :
(i) Application Form duly filled in, signed and photograph affixed;
(ii) Original Treasury Chalan/Bank Draft/Pay Order; and
(iii) Acknowledgement Card duly filled in and affixed with postage stamp of Rs.6/- only. No other enclosure/documents/certificates should be attached thereof. The aforesaid documents are not to be tagged/pinned/stitched to the short application form.

NOTE: (1) While filling in the short application form, the candidate should carefully decide about his/her choice for the zone of examination. More than one application from a candidate, giving different zones of examination, will not be accepted in any case. Even if a candidate sends more than one completed application, the Commission will accept only one application at their discretion and the Commission’s decision in the matter shall be final.

If any candidate appears at a centre/optional subject (main written examination) other than the one indicated by the Commission in his/her admission certificate, the papers of such a candidate will not be valued and his/her candidature will be liable to cancellation.

(2) Since these short application forms are to be processed in a computerized system, due care should be taken by the candidates to fill up their short application forms correctly. Necessary instructions for filling up the short

application may be seen in the Brochure supplied and relevant portion of the advertisement. No column of the short application form should be left blank. INCOMPLETE OR DEFECTIVE APPLICATIONS SHALL BE SUMMARILY REJECTED. No representation or correspondence regarding such rejection shall be entertained under any circumstances.

(3) Candidates are not required to submit, along with their short application, any copy of the certificate in support of their claims regarding age, educational qualification, Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes/ S.E.B.C./ Orthopaedically Handicapped or any other certificate. The relevant documents are to be submitted along with the long application for the main written examination, if selected in the preliminary written examination.

(4) The candidates, while applying for the preliminary written examination, should ensure that they fulfill all the eligibility conditions for admission to the examination. Their admission at all the stages of the examination; i.e. preliminary written examination, main written examination & interview will be PURELY PROVISIONAL, subject to their satisfying the prescribed eligibility conditions. If on verification at any time before or after the preliminary written examination, main written examination & interview, it is found that they do not fulfil any of the eligibility conditions, their candidature for the examination will be cancelled by the Commission. If any

of their claims is found to be incorrect, they may render themselves liable to imposition of penalty as may be decided by the Commission in term of Rule-21 of the Odisha Superior Judicial Service & Odisha Judicial Service, Rules, 2007.

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