GOVERNMENT OF ODISHA ST & SC DEVELOPMENT, M & BC WELFARE (SSDMBCW) DEPARTMENT Soke No. {646s / SSD, Bhubaneswar Dated the dt sept, 2022. STSCD-EEI-ESTT-0023-2019 ORDER Subject: Standing No Objection Certificate / Permissionin favour of Government Employees working in Schools under the Administrative control of ST & SC Development Department for appearing in various Recruitment Examinations or for Applying for Jobs Elsewhere Being the appointing authority, ST & SC Development Department receives a number of applications throughout the year from Teaching and Non-Teaching employees working in different schools of this Department requesting for permission/NOC to appear in various recruitment examinations conducted by UPSC, OPSC, SSB, OSSC, ¢ and also to apply for different jobs elsewhere. As the employees have a right to seek better career opportunities for themselves, the ST & SC Development Department grants permission/NOC in all cases in a very routine and mechanical manner; wasting valuable time of the Department. Applicant employees are often seen visiting the Department for expediting their cases wasting their valuable time. Delay in granting permission/NOC also sometimes leads to frustration among the applicant employees. Under the 5T mandate of the State Government, the ST & SC Development” Department was exploring the possibility of bringing a transformative change in the present practice of granting such permission/NOC whereby the applicant employees would be saved from such inconvenience and the Department would also be saved from such unproductive work. Accordingly, in supersession of all previous orders/executive instructions, the ST & SC Development Department hereby grants its standing permission and no objection certificate in favour of all teaching and non-teaching regular Government employees working in the schools under the administrative control of this Department to apply for any job elsewhere or toappearin any recruitment examination subject to the following conditions. 1. The employee shall not neglect his/her official duties/responsibilities. 2. The employee must take prior permission of the competent authority for leave and Head Quarter leaving permission for appearing in any recruitment examination/job interview. ‘Standing Permission/NOC" shall not be construed as permission of the mployee from its administrative control. In case of selection for the job applied for, the employee concerned must seek approval of this Department through proper channel, to be relieved from his/her current service. Notwithstanding anything contained in this order, in public interest or for any other justifiable reason, the Department may refuse to relieve an employee from his/her current service. AL PeThis standing order shall henceforth be treated as the Standing Permission/NOC, issued by the Department in favour of its teaching and non- teaching employees working in the schools of this Department, which can be produced by the employees to various recruitment organisations / future employers as and when necessary. No individual permission/NOC shall henceforth be required to be issued by this Department nor shall any such application henceforth be entertained by this Department. All pending applications for grant of NOC/Permission in favour of the applicant employees individually are accordingly discarded. By order of the Governor — 20.09.2022 Principal Secretary to Goverstnent MemoNo. 16464 _/ssDdtd,__ 40°04" Q0AQ Copy forwarded to the GA & PG Department for information and necessary ee Joint Director action. Memo No, 164 70 __/ssp dtd_QW-°1>202Q Copy forwarded to OPSC/OSSC/SSB/OSSSC for information and necessary action. They are requested not to insist upon NOC of ST & SC Development Department in individual cases after issue of ~—this_—-‘Standing permission/NOC. , v i Joint Director’ MemoNo._164 7) —_/SSD dtd_ 20°01: ARQ Copy forwarded to all Collectors for information x necessary action. Vv Ap \S Joint Director Memo No._!64 72_/ssp dtd__Q0-9: 2022 Copy forwarded to all PAITDAs/DWOs/Principals/Head Masters for information and necessary action, They are directed to circulate it amongst all concerned and not to send individual applications secking for grant of Permission/NOC of Government to this Department anymore. Joint