The Odisha Staff Selection Commission has released a provisional recommendation list — not a final appointment order. This distinction is critical. Being on this list means OSSC has recommended you to the Appointing Authority based on your Main Examination performance and office preference. But the actual appointment order comes from the department's Appointing Authority, and only after your original certificates are verified. Candidates who are found ineligible during document verification, or who have suppressed information in their Bio-Data-Cum-Attestation form, will be disqualified even at this final stage.

This recruitment was governed by Rule-15 of OSSC Rules 1993 and its subsequent amendments, read with Clause-7 of the Combined Technical Services Recruitment Examination Rules 2022. The examination was conducted under Advertisement No. 1233/OSSC dated 14.03.2024, with Notification No. 5161/OSSC dated 23.12.2024 being a subsequent amendment/clarification notification. The final merit was determined on the basis of the Main Written Examination marks — candidates were allotted departments based on their preference order and merit rank. All three departments — Engineer-in-Chief Public Health, Directorate of Fisheries, and Panchayati Raj & Drinking Water — receive their respective lists separately.

The OSSC JE Civil 2026 result covers three separate departments of the Odisha Government, each with its own selection list, merit order, and cutoff marks. Candidates who had exercised preference for a specific department during application were allotted to that department based on merit. The department-wise breakdown shows a significant difference in the number of vacancies — EIC Public Health (365) and PR&DW (366) are the two large departments, while Directorate of Fisheries has a much smaller intake of just 15 candidates.

The cutoff marks differ significantly across the three departments — the Directorate of Fisheries has the highest UR cutoff at 110.5, suggesting it was the most preferred or most competitive department in terms of the candidate pool that chose it. In contrast, PR&DW Department has a UR cutoff of 95.5 — 10 marks below EIC Public Health's 105.5. This gap reflects how candidate preference distribution and the available vacancy count interact to set the final cutoff for each department independently.

The cutoff marks (last selection marks) published by OSSC are a crucial benchmark for this and future recruitment cycles. These marks represent the score of the last candidate selected in each category for each department — meaning any candidate scoring at or above these marks in their respective category and department was included in the provisional list, while those below were not. Several important patterns emerge from these cutoffs. First, the SEBC cutoff is consistently very close to the UR cutoff across all departments — indicating strong SEBC participation and competition. Second, the SC-ST gap is significant in departments like EIC Public Health (SC: 92.5 vs ST: 78), reflecting the relative population sizes and pool of candidates appearing from each category.

The PwD cutoffs are separately published and significantly lower — for example, in EIC Public Health, PwD Category-III cutoff is 104 (male) and 47.5 (female), while PwD Category-I is only 22. This wide range reflects the different functional limitations across PwD disability categories and their respective candidate pools. The Ex-Serviceman (Ex-SM) cutoff of 65.5 at EIC Public Health is also notable — and importantly, no Ex-SM or SP (Sports Persons) selections were made in PR&DW Department (shown as "–" in the official document), suggesting either no candidates applied with those preferences or no qualifying candidates were available for those categories in that department.

The merit list for EIC Public Health is the largest of the three, with 365 candidates provisionally recommended. The first 10 candidates in the merit list (in order of rank) represent the top-scoring candidates for this department. The list is presented in merit order — Sl. No. 1 being the highest-scoring candidate who also exercised preference for EIC Public Health. Candidates are distributed across multiple categories — with UR candidates occupying the top ranks as expected, given their higher absolute score requirement (UR cutoff: 105.5).

An important observation from the top-10 list: the first female candidate (Puspanjali Jena, Sl. 9, SEBC, UR(W) category) appears at Rank 9, showing that the UR Women's cutoff of 97.5 allowed female candidates from SEBC background to be recommended under the women's horizontal reservation. This reflects how OSSC's combined horizontal and vertical reservation system works in practice — a female candidate may be recommended against UR(W) even if she belongs to SEBC category, if she outperforms other women candidates in the overall merit.

With only 15 positions, the Directorate of Fisheries list is the most competitive of the three — as reflected in its highest UR cutoff of 110.5 and SEBC cutoff of 109. The Fisheries department likely attracted candidates with specific interest or prior exposure to Odisha's fisheries infrastructure, which is a significant sector in the state given Odisha's extensive coastline and inland water bodies. The JE Civil role in this context involves infrastructure work related to fishery harbours, hatcheries, fish landing centres, and associated civil engineering projects — a distinct and specialised work environment compared to the water supply and sanitation projects under EIC Public Health or the rural infrastructure focus of PR&DW.

Among the 15 selected, the category distribution shows a mix of UR, SEBC, SC, ST, and PwD candidates — with both male and female candidates recommended. Notably, a UR female candidate (Debasmita Sarangi, Sl. 5) is recommended under UR(W), and an ST female (Surina Kisan, Sl. 15) under ST(W), reflecting effective horizontal reservation implementation even in this small pool of 15 seats. The presence of one PwD candidate (Manas Ranjan Sahoo, Sl. 14, PwD Cat-I, UR) in a list of 15 shows that disability reservations are maintained even for small vacancy counts.

Being on the OSSC JE Civil provisional list means you have cleared the hardest part — the main examination and the preference-based allotment. However, the journey from this list to an actual appointment order involves several important procedural steps that candidates must navigate carefully. The most common reason for candidates losing their appointment even after appearing on a provisional list is failure at document verification — particularly due to discrepancies in caste certificates, age proof, educational qualifications, or suppression of information in the Bio-Data-Cum-Attestation form.

For candidates currently serving in any Central or State Government department or Public Sector Undertaking, a specific requirement applies: they must produce a duly accepted resignation letter from their current employer before the Appointing Authority. This means you cannot simultaneously hold a government job and join as JE Civil through this OSSC list — you must formally resign from your existing position, and the resignation must have been accepted. A mere submission of resignation is not sufficient; it must be accepted by your current employer before joining is allowed.

All answers below are based exclusively on the official OSSC notification No. IIE(Conf)-42/2025/680/OSSC dated 08 April 2026. Every name, roll number, cutoff mark, and procedural detail is verified directly from the official 28-page PDF document.