Odisha’s civil services coaching fails to deliver results: CM

The success rate of Odia students in the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)’s All India Civil Service Examination is left much to be desired.

Though the Odisha government has introduced a civil service coaching programme run by the higher education department, only 31 have managed to crack the coveted jobs of IAS and IPS in five years.

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While 7 cracked the All India civil service exam in 2019, it came down to four and five in 2020 and 2021. Likewise, 7 and 8 aspirants cracked the service in 2022 and 2023, Chief Minister Mohan Majhi told the Assembly on Monday.

It may be recalled here that the higher education department had signed an MoU with a private institute in 2019 to provide qualitative coaching to aspirants from Odisha at subsidized one-time annual fees of Rs 20,650. The candidates whose parents’ annual income was less than Rs 2 lakh were entitled to enroll in the coaching programme.

Though the government’s objective was to assist the civil service aspirants who could not afford the exorbitant fees of private institutes elsewhere in the country, the initiative had failed to pay dividends. None of those imparted government-sponsored coaching reportedly cracked the All India Civil Service examination.