Journal of Community Mobilization and Sustainable Development

Besides, research and extension, teaching has been regarded as a the vital core in imparting technical knowledge in the field of education of agricultural and allied sciences. Therefore, the in-depth analysis of competency levels can throw light on the current status and thus be guiding force in its further improvement to enhance the level of agricultural education. In this context, the present study was conducted to be aware about the job competency levels of teachers working in the three campuses of university- Bhubaneswar, Bhawanipatna and Chiplima. A total of 90 respondents were selected under ex-post facto research design in which data collection done through personal interview method using questionnaire. From the investigation, the results depicted that 55.55 per cent of teachers accorded to medium level of overall job-competence followed by 16.67 per cent and 27.79 per cent to low and high levels respectively. In terms of self-rating and superior ratings, majority belonged to the medium levels of job competence in the portion of 53.33 per cent and 58.89 per cent respectively. To job competence, the dimension Technical knowledge and Guidance were major contributors but the least ones were creativity, self-development and adaptability which demands of focus and efforts to work out on these for further upscaling the competency levels.