Dr. S. Mohapatra has served as officer on Special Duty (OSD) of Odisha State Open University (OSOU), Sambhalpur. He was appointed as first Vice Chancellor of OSOU and subsequently worked as VC, OSOU for Second term.
 

Dr. S.Mohapatra has served as the Director, Regional Services Division and EMPC, IGNOU. He has also served as the Controller of Examination at Sikkim University.
 

Dr. S. Mohapatra did his M.Phil and Ph.D from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi in International Politics with specialization in South Asian Studies. He has taught Political Science and International Politics for ten years in both Under – Graduate (UG) and Post- Graduate (PG) classes in various UGC sponsored autonomous colleges in the State of Odisha.
 

Dr.S. Mohapatra has got wide experience in the field of student support and evaluation under distance education system. He has worked for five years each as Regional Director of IGNOU for Bihar and Odisha. In the year 2004, he was awarded IGNOU gold medal for providing the best services to the students by the former President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. In the field of evaluation of student performance through continuous evaluation and End Semester Examination, he has handled one of the largest examination systems under higher education stream anywhere in the world.

 Dr. Mohapatra has widely travelled in India and abroad to participate in seminars and workshops. He has visited the United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal & Malaysia.