Odisha Govt terminates empanelment of Silicon Tech Lab over police SI recruitment scam
Odisha Government on Wednesday terminated empanelment of Silicon Tech Lab for breach of contract and involvement in irregularities, informed the Electronics & Information Technology Department.
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Government on Wednesday terminated empanelment of Silicon Tech Lab for breach of contract and involvement in irregularities, informed the Electronics & Information Technology Department.
The Electronics & IT Department today terminated the Tier-I empanelment of M/s Silicon Tech Lab Pvt. Ltd. for serious breach of its Service Agreement with OCAC and alleged complicity in the 2024 Police Sub-Inspector recruitment scam.
The firm, sub-contracted by ITI Limited, illegally delegated exam duties to scam kingpin Shankar Prusty’s Panchsoft Technologies and facilitated question-paper leaks.
Silicon Tech Lab CEO Suresh Chandra Nayak was arrested on November 3 for sheltering Prusty. The CBI is now probing the multi-crore scam. The termination is effective immediately.
The notification issued by the department said, “The Government in E&IT Department, after careful consideration, have terminated the empanelment of M/s Silicon Tech Lab Pvt. Ltd., empaneled through E&IT Department Notification No. 4023 Dtd. 26.09.2023 under Tier-l category for violating several material provisions of the Service Agreement for Empanelment of Software Firms executed with OCAC.”
“All other terms & conditions laid down in the said Notification shall remain unchanged,” it added.
