As many as 46 candidates have successfully passed in the state athletics technical officials examination, which was conducted by Athletic Federation of India in the month of January 2016. According to a press release by Odisha Athletic Association today, a total of 57 candidates had appeared the examination.

LIST OF PASS CANDIDATES: Kuntala Mahana, Nibedita Sahu (both Angul); Ranjan Kumar Patra (Bhadrak); Nalinikanta Rour (Bhubaneswar); Sahid Jamil Raziv (Bargarh); Manoj Kumar Gaigauria (Boudh); Biswavijayee V Behera, Dhananjaya Behera, Diptimayee Nanda, Kaushalya Behera, Lingaraj Behera, Manas Ranjan Pati, Priyanka Nayak, Saroj Kumar Mohapatra (all Cuttack); Kunita Sahu (Deogarh); Dillip Kumar Pal, Ramakrishna Behera (both Dhenkanal); Binayak Hota, Sushanta Kumar Sahu, Bikash Kumar Panigrahy (all Ganjam); Bidyadhar Sethi, Durgadatta Mohapatra, Sunita Sethy (all Jagatsinghpur);  Saraswati Chand, Swaraj Choudhury (both Jajpur); Smita Pratiya Sahoo (Kendrapada); Kalpana Deo, Pradip Kumar Barik, Subhashita Rath (all Keonjhar); Debendra Kumar Dash, Sanjaya Kumar Fatesingh, Saumyakanta Sahu, Abdul Azim Khan, Sk Seraj (all Khurda); Kadagalasurya Bhaskar, Sangita Kumari Roy (both Koraput); Jyoshnarani Pradhan (Malkangiri); Lipika Mohapatra, Nadia Das (both Mayurbhanj); Rama Chandra Sahoo, Subhashree Tripathy (both Puri); Rekha Dey (Sambalpur); D Srinivas Rao (Srikakulam); Bansidhar Mahato, Dharmendra K Sahoo, Sanjukta Dash (all Sundargarh).