The Orissa High Court has refused to interfere in the Odisha Government’s recruitment process for assistant professor posts in super-speciality, which did not reserve seats for Scheduled Caste (SC) or Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates. Two SC/ST candidates had challenged the advertisement published in 2021 by the Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC), arguing that it excluded reservation and that all 19 posts were open only to unreserved candidates. Justice Biraja Prasanna Satpathy ruled that there was no illegality in the advertisement. The court noted that based on the Supreme Court’s decisions in cases like Indra Sawhney and Preeti Srivastav, the state had not committed any fault by not providing reservation for these posts. The government had argued that the post of assistant professor in super-speciality fall under Level 12 pay scale as per Medical Council of India norms and is not a base-level teaching post, hence reservation does not apply. The court agreed and dismissed the petitions. This means the recruitment will continue without reservation for SC/ST candidates in the super-speciality stream.