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Bhubaneswar: Students from the Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) staged a unique protest by polishing shoes on the road in the State Capital to express their resentment over the educational qualification criteria for selection into different posts under the Odisha Forest Service (OFS).
According to reports, the students have been continuing their protests since last three days urging the State government to allow candidates with Bachelor of Science in Forestry qualification to appear for different OFS examinations.
“Students take four years to complete graduation courses in Forestry. Considering the subject and the duration of the course, they are more eligible for OFS than students from other streams. Hence, the Forestry graduate students should be allowed to sit in the examinations for posts like Forest Ranger, Assistant Conservator of Forest, Assistant Manager OFDC and Junior Manager under OFS,” said a protestor.
It is worth mentioning that earlier on February 20 a group of engineers who were laid-off from their jobs had staged a similar protest by polishing shoes at the Lower PMG Square.
The engineers who were engaged in different franchises of the Central Electricity Supply Utility of Odisha (CESU) for the last 10 years were laid-off from their jobs after Tata Power took over the management of CESU for the distribution and supply of power in Odisha’s five circles-Bhubaneshwar, Cuttack, Puri, Paradeep and Dhenekal.
