No. 8562ʊT.Admin-I-54/2022-TSM

GOVERNMENT OF ODISHA

DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM

RESOLUTION

The 11th November 2022

SUBJECTʊRestructuring of Odisha Tourism Service (OTS) cadre and Tourism

destinations.

Considering the paradigm shift in travel and tourism sector in transforming it as

sustainable and responsible tourism across the globe, State Government is committed

to make substantial changes in policy decisions to develop a roadmap to achieve the

objective.

With sustainability becoming the buzz word, Department of Tourism is actively

thinking for strategic steps to diversify niche tourism experiences in locations rich in

culture, heritage and biodiversity. The key areas are water-based recreation projects,

establishment of immersive home-stay experience in bio-diverse and culture rich

destinations still untouched by hotel networks, promotion of road trips to Odisha’s

hinterlands blessed with nature, culture and heritage, and development of eco-tourism

via creation of nature camps and eco-cottages in wildlife protected areas by

supplementing the livelihood of local people while providing the best of experiences to

nature lovers, be it trekking, sightseeing, safari, boating, etc.

Having a long coastline, the Government is leaving no stone unturned to

establish Odisha as a sought-after beach destination. Events like Eco-retreat have also

given a new dimension to Odisha Tourism. Niche tourism offerings like eco-tourism,

river cruise, water-based recreation and adventure sports, cuisine, homestays, etc are

being actively developed to diversify tourism offerings in various destinations across the

State.

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In order to fulfil the above objective, Government have realised that, there is a

need for Human Resource having domain experts for sustaining Tourism sector in long

run. With adversaries impacting the tourism sector across the globe, it is extremely

important that the Persons responsible for growth of tourism sector are selected through

a competitive process with required capacity to gain specific domain experience. The

domain experts to be placed across various fields such as sustainable infrastructure

development, creation of new tourism products, survey of tourism investible landbanks,

tourism investment promotion, destination promotion, policy and scheme-based

interventions, etc. are essential to get the desired outcome.

Considering the emerging diversified nature of tourism, to keep pace with the

competitiveness of the Tourism Industries of the State with other States, to attract

meritorious manpower to make Tourism service as a cadre of their choice, as well as

to involve and ensure economic growth of local common people through Tourism has

been engaging attention of the Government for some time past.

2. After careful consideration and keeping in view the above aspect, Government have

been pleased to divide the Tourism Destinations of the state into Division-wise and

restructure the Odisha Tourism Service (OTS) cadre in Tourism Department for

effective management of field and field functionaries as follows.

3. Tourism Division

Keeping in view the Administrative convenience and effective management of

Tourism destination available in the state of Odisha, the Tourism destinations ( inside

state ) are divided into 7 (seven) Tourism Division, and 1(one) Destination division to

function at national capital, New Delhi (outside state). The Tourism Divisions shall be

headed by OTS cadre officer in the rank of Deputy Director and Joint Director. Under

each Tourism Division there shall be certain number of Tourism District, for which

required number of Asst. Director, Tourism Development officer and Tourist Officer

shall be there. The 7 Tourism Divisions and 1 destination Division outside the state are

as follows.

A. Tourism Divisions inside the state

Sl.No.

Name of Tourism

Division

Headquarter

the

Division

Name of Tourism District included in the

Tourism Division

Tourism

Division

Bhubaneswar

Khurda, Nayagarh

Tourism

Division

Koraput

Koraput,

Nabarangpur,

Rayagada,

Malkanagiri, Kalahandi, Nuapada

Sl.No.

Name of Tourism

Division

Headquarter

the

Division

Name of Tourism District included in the

Tourism Division

Tourism

Division

Sambalpur

Sambalpur, Bargarh, Sonepur, Jharsuguda,

Deogarh, Sundargarh, Bolangir

Tourism

Division

Cuttack

Keonjhar, Angul, Dhenkanal, Jajpur, Cuttack

Tourism

Division

Balasore

Balasore,

Bhadrak,

Kendrapara,

Jagatsinghpur, Mayurbhanj

Tourism

Division

Berhampur

Ganjam, Gajapati, Kandhamal, Boudh

Tourism

Division

Puri

B. Tourism Division outside the state.

Sl.No.

Name

Tourism

Division

Head

quarter

of the Division

Name of Tourism District

included in the Tourism

Division

Tourism

Division

New

Delhi

New Delhi

4. Restructure of Odisha Tourism Service (OTS) cadre

The OTS cadre had been restructured vide Resolution No.7685/TSM dated

4.9.2019. But, due to pay anomaly at base level post for direct recruitment through

Odisha Public Service Commission, the said restructuring of OTS cadre could not be

effected.

Now, to overcome the bottleneck for recruitment of base level OTS cadre post

through Odisha Civil Service Examination by Odisha Public Service Commission, it is

necessitated to further revise the restructure of the Odisha Tourism Services Cadre in

the Tourism Department and its subordinate offices by fixing the total Cadre strength of

Odisha Tourism Service from Additional Director to Tourist Officer at 82 (eighty two) by

further up gradation of 18 number of Tourist Officer post to Tourism Development

Officer post as follows:

A. Addl. Director – This is a new post created in the restructuring process. The pay

level of Addl. Director is fixed at Level-15 (pre-revised PB-4 – Rs. 37400-67000/- +

GP Rs. 8700/-) as per Pay Matrix of ORSP Rules 2017.

B. Joint Director – The sanctioned strength of Joint Director is fixed to 3(three). The

pay level of Joint Director is fixed at Level-14 (pre-revised PB-3-Rs. 15600-39100/-

+ GP Rs. 7600/-) of the Pay Matrix of ORSP Rules 2017.

C. Deputy Director – The sanctioned strength of Deputy Director as per Resolution

dated 04.09.2019 is 6(Six). The post of Deputy Director shall remain as such in

Level – 13 (pre-revised PB-3 – Rs. 15600-39100/- + GP Rs. 6600/-) of the Pay

Matrix of ORSP Rules, 2017.

D. Assistant Director, Tourism – The sanctioned strength of Assistant Director

Tourism is fixed at 12(twelve) as per Resolution dated 04.09.2019.The pay level of

the Assistant Director is fixed at Level–12 (pre-revised PB-3– Rs. 15600-39100/- +

GP Rs. 5400/-) of the Pay Matrix of ORSP Rules 2017.

E. Tourism Development Officer – The post of Sr. Tourist Officer was created

earlier in Tourism Department Resolution No.7685/TSM dated 4.9.2019. The

sanctioned strength of Sr. Tourist Officer was 20(Twenty) as per said Resolution.

The pay level of Sr. Tourist Officer was fixed at Level -10 (pre-revised PB-2 – Rs.

9300-34800/- + GP Rs. 4600/-) of the Pay Matrix of ORSP Rules, 2017.

18(eighteen) number of feeder grade post of Tourist Officer in the level-9(pre-

revised PB-2 Rs.9300-34800/-GP Rs.4200) are further upgraded to Sr. Tourist

Officer by making the total sanctioned strength at 38(thirty eight) vide F.D

concurrence in their File No.FIN-GS2-MCS-0002-2019. The post of Sr. Tourist

Officer has been re-designated as Tourism Development Officer vide F.D

concurrence in their File No. FIN-GS2-MCS-0002-2019. There shall be direct entry

at Tourism Development Officer level through Odisha Civil Service Examination by

Odisha Public Service Commission. The percentage of Direct recruitment and

promotional post at the Tourism Development Officer level shall be 50:50.

F. Tourist Officer – The sanctioned strength of Tourist Officer as per earlier

Resolution dated 04.09.2019 was 40. After up gradation of 18 (eighteen) Tourist

Officers posts in Level-9 (pre-revised PB-2 – Rs. 9300-34800/- + GP Rs. 4200/-) to

Sr. Tourist Officer(Re-designated as Tourism Development Officer) in Level-10

(pre-revised PB-2-Rs. 9300-34800/- + GP Rs. 4600/-), balance 22 (twenty two)

posts remained. The post of Tourist Officer shall be the dying post and be

abolished when such number of post shall be lying vacant on account of

promotion, superannuation or otherwise of the persons holding the post.

5. After such restructuring, the total cadre strength of the Odisha Tourism Service

(OTS) Cadre shall be 82 (eighty two)including 22 dying post of Tourist officer. The

detail cadre strength and corresponding Pay Matrix are given in the table below.

Sl.

Name of the

Post(s)

Level

of Pay

Matrix

Pre-

revised

sanctione

d strength

Sanctioned

strength as per

Resolution

No.7685/TSM

dated 4.9.2019

Revise

Sanctio

ned

Strengt

Cadre

Schedule

Additional

Director

Annexure-

Jt. Director

Dy. Director

Asst. Director

Tourism

Development

Officer

Tourist Officer

TOTAL

6. Educational Qualification- The Educational Qualification for direct entry into

Odisha Tourism Service at Tourism Development Officer Level through Odisha Civil

Service Examination by Odisha Public Service Commission shall be in Graduate in

any discipline from a recognized University.

7. Necessary amendment to ‘Odisha Tourism Service’ (OTS) Rules 1980 and

amended in 3^rd December 1998 shall be made in accordance with cadre

restructuring.

8. This has been concurred in by the Finance Department vide Finance Department

File No. FIN-GS2-MCS-0002-2019 and has got approval of Government.

9. The earlier Resolution No.7685/TSM dated 4.9.2019 is hereby superseded.

This will come into force with immediate effect.

ORDERʊOrdered that the Resolution be published in the Extra-ordinary issue of

the Odisha Gazette for general information and copies thereof be forwarded to all

Departments of Government / Principal A.G(Audit) / Principal A.G (A & E), Odisha

Bhubaneswar.

By orders of the Governor

SURENDRA KUMAR

Principal Secretary to Govt.

Annexture-A

Distribution of posts of OTS Cadre officer

Sl.

No.

Office /Division

Name

Additional

Director

(L-15)

Joint

Director

(L-14)

Deputy

Director

(L-13)

Asst.

Director

(L-12)

Tourism

Development

Officer

(L-10)

Tourist

Officer

(L-9)

District Covered

Tourism

Department

(HQr)

Tourism Division Offices (outside state)

Tourism

Division, New

Delhi

Tourism Division Offices (inside state)

Tourism

Division,

Bhubaneswar

Khordha,, Nayagarh,

Tourism Division

Koraput

Koraput, Nabarangpur,

Rayagada, Malkangiri,

Kalahandi, Nuapada

Tourism

Division,

Sambalpur

Sambalpur, Bargarh,

Sonepur, Jharsuguda,

Deogarh, Sundargarh,

Bolangir

Tourism

Division, Cuttack

Keonjhar, Angul,

Dhenkanal, Jajpur,

Cuttack

Tourism

Division,

Balasore

Balasore, Bhadrakh,

Kendrapara,

Jagatsinghpur,

Mayurbhanj

Tourism

Division,

Berhampur

Ganjam, Gajapati,

Kandhamal, Boudh

Tourism

Division, Puri

Puri

Total

Leave Reserve,

Training and

Deputation

Grand Total

78+4=82

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