Unbelievable That The Millionaire Private Secy Of SSC Didn’t Hijack Recruitment Process

An administrative audit should be conducted and the outcome would indicate whether Biranchi Narayan Sahoo was the kingpin that had hijacked the SSC recruitment process with connivance of others or his activities had had no bearing on the normal functioning of the Commission and everything was hunky-dory in the Commission as claimed by the Chairman of the Commission.

Unbelievable that the Millionaire Private Secretary of Odisha SSC didn’t hijack the recruitment process

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Even though govt won’t admit it, the ugly incident has dented the image of the recruiting agency.

With the unfolding of Biranchi episode, there is a swell of distrust in the recruitment process.

For a true picture of the Commission’s functioning to come out, the administrative audit should be conducted immediately.

Two days after arrest by the State Vigilance organisation in a case of having assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, the state government compulsorily retired Biranchi Narayan Sahoo, private secretary to a Member of the Odisha Staff Selection Commission (OSSC), on the 2nd of August, 2021. He was due to retire within six months. Vigilance organisation reportedly detected assets worth over Rs 3.79 crores with Sahoo. The Chairman of the Commission, immediately after Sahoo’s arrest, clarified that Biranchi’s arrest had no connection with the recruitment process of the Commission and it was not right to blame the Commission for any lapse as it had a transparent recruitment arrangement in place. 

Government seems to hold the view that everything was in order in the Commission and the guilty had been swiftly dealt with. Students’ wing of Congress party, however, held demonstration before the Office of the Commission demanding investigation into allegations of bribe for recruitment.