Cuttack, October 26: The Orissa High Court on Tuesday declared the appointment of as many as 378 Odisha Civil Service (OCS) officers as valid and quashed the decision of the State Administrative Tribunal’s (SAT) decision.
On the basis of an Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) advertisements of 2006, as many as 73 OAS (Class-I), 207 OFS (Class-I) and 98 officers in other allied cadres as Class-II officers were given appointment by the State Government in June 2010.
But the Cuttack bench of the SAT on May 13, 2014 quashed the appointments of all the 378 Odisha Civil Service officials declaring the appointments as “illegal” and “void”.
