Odisha Civil Services Examination

Official exam info

Odisha Public Service Commission's Odisha Civil Services Examination — the state's senior administrative-service exam. Mains has 4 compulsory GS papers plus Essay that weave genuine Odisha-specific material (the Kalinga War, dynastic history from Kharavela through the Gajapatis, Odisha's temple architecture and Bhakti movement, the Paik Rebellion, Vir Surendra Sai's resistance, Praja Mandal movements, Odisha's physical geography and natural resources, and state governance/economy/security institutions) into the national General Studies syllabus, plus a single optional subject chosen from 37 real options. Study material reuses the verified national content pool and UPSC's own Optional corpus wherever the underlying material is genuinely national, plus 9 chapters authored fresh -- 5 for Odisha's own history/culture, freedom struggle, geography, polity, and economy/security, and 4 Odisha-specific addenda layered on top of 9 reuse-verified optional subjects (History, Geography, Political Science, Public Administration, Anthropology, Economics, Law, Philosophy, Sociology). The remaining 28 optional subjects are real, listed choices without content yet, honestly disclosed rather than silently dropped.