OPSC OCS Eligibility Criteria 2024: Age Limit, Qualification, and Nationality

OPSC OCS Eligibility Criteria 2024: The Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) has released the Odisha Civil Services (OCS) application age limit and other requirements, along with a detailed notification. All interested candidates must carefully analyse the OPPSC OCS eligibility criteria before submitting the online form. 

The candidates should enter only correct and valid information about their age, qualification, etc., in the OPSC OCS application form to be eligible for this recruitment process. Candidates who hold bachelor’s degrees and are at least 21 years old are eligible to apply for the OSC exam.

In this article, we have shared complete details on the OPSC OCS eligibility criteria, including age limit, qualification, etc., for the reference of the aspirants.

OPSC OCS Eligibility Criteria 2024 Overview

All interested aspirants should fulfil the OPSC OAS eligibility criteria 2024 before applying for the post. They should fulfil all the eligibility conditions, including age, educational qualifications, experience, etc., as per the guidelines prescribed in the official notification. Here is an overview of the OPSC OAS  (Odisha Administrative Service) eligibility shared below for the reference of the candidates.

OPSC OCS Age Limit 2024

As per the official notification, the age of candidates must be 21 years and not exceed the age of 38 years as of January 1, 2023. They must not have been born earlier than January 2, 1985, and not later than January 1, 2002, when applying for the OPSC OCS 2024 exam. Here is the minimum and maximum OPSC OCS age limit shared below.

OPSC OCS Age Limit Relaxation 2024

There shall be a relaxation on the upper age limit for candidates belonging to reserved categories when applying for the OPSC OCS 2024 exam. Check out the category-wise OPSC OCS age limit relaxation shared below.

OPSC OS Educational Qualification 2024

Candidates must possess a bachelor’s degree from any recognised university as the minimum OPSC OAS educational qualification. Some of the other OPSC OCS eligibility conditions in terms of qualification are shared below.

Candidates must be able to read, write, and speak Odia.

• Passed a middle school exam with Odia as a language subject.
• Passed high school certificate or equivalent exam with Odia as the medium of exam in the non-language subject.
• Passed in Odia as a language subject in the final exam of Class-VII from school or educational institution.
• Passed a test in Odia in Middle English school standards conducted by the school and mass education department of the government of Odia.

OPSC OCS Nationality 2024

Besides the OPSC OAS age limit criteria, candidates should ensure they fulfil all the nationality criteria before applying. A candidate should be a citizen of India when applying for the Odisha civil services exam.

OPSC OCS Marital Status 2024

Candidates with more than one spouse living or, in the case of women candidates, if married to a person having one spouse living, shall not be eligible to appear in the Odisha civil services exam unless the State Government has exempted their case from the operation of this limitation for any sufficient reason.

OPSC OCS Number of Attempts

As per the OPSC OCS eligibility criteria 2024, there are certain restrictions on the number of attempts for the candidates applying for the Odisha civil services exam. Here is the OPSC OCS number of attempts for all the categories shared below.

OPSC OCS Eligibility Criteria 2024

Some important points associated with the OPSC OCS eligibility criteria 2024 are shared below.

• The date of birth entered in the high school certificate or equivalent issued by the concerned board/council will be accepted by the commission.
• Candidates must have good moral character. Also, they must have good mental and bodily health and be free from any physical defect likely to interfere with the discharge of their duties as an officer of the service/post.
• Candidates belonging to the SC/ST/SEBC category by birth are required to submit a caste certificate as mentioned in the online application form and issued by the competent authority in the prescribed format.