Applications are invited from eligible Indian Citizens for the post of Assistant in Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
Candidates may click on the link below for filling in the online application form.
“Recruitment for the post of Assistant”
1. Application form
Before applying, Candidates should ensure that they fulfill the eligibility criteria for the post. Candidates are requested to apply online through Bank’s website www.rbi.org.in
Helpline: In case of any problem in filling up the form, payment of fee or receipt of call letter,
queries may be made at 022 – 29687111 or ibpso@ibps.in
Don’t forget to mention ‘RBI Assistant Examination’ in the subject box of the email.
IMPORTANT DATES:-
Website Link Open 30.05.2013 to 20.06.2013
Payment of Examination Fees Online 30.05.2013 to 20.06.2013
At Bank Branches 03.06.2013 to 24.06.2013
Date of Online Test 20.07.2013, 21.07.2013, 27.07.2013, 28.07.2013
Abbreviations stand for: SC – Scheduled Caste, ST – Scheduled Tribe, OBC – Other Backward Classes, GEN – General, i.e. Unreserved, PWD – Persons with Disabilities, VH – Visually Handicapped, HI – Hearing Impaired, OH – Orthopedically Handicapped, EXS – Ex-Servicemen, EX-1 - Disabled Ex-servicemen/ Dependants of Ex-servicemen killed in action, Ex-2 - Exservicemen (normal)
Reservation for PWD/ EXS is horizontal reservation and included in the vacancies of various categories.PWD candidates applying for Offices where vacancies are not reserved for them will be
eligible for upper age limit as available to PWD candidates. Similarly EXS candidates applying in states where vacancies are not reserved for them will be eligible for age relaxation applicable to their parent
categories (SC/ST/OBC) only.
The reservation under various categories will be as per prevailing Government Guidelines at the time of finalisation of result.
2. Definition:
i) Ex-Serviceman:
Only those candidates shall be treated as Ex-Serviceman who fulfil the revised definition as laid down in
Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms
Notification No.36034/5/85/Estt(SCT) dated 27th October, 1986 as amended from time to time.
Disabled Ex-Serviceman: Ex-Serviceman who while serving in Armed Forces of the Union disabled in
operation against the enemy or in disturbed areas shall be treated as Disabled Ex-Serviceman.
Dependents of Serviceman killed in Action: Servicemen killed in the following operations would be
deemed to have been killed in action attributable to Military Service (a) war (b) warlike operations or
border skirmishes either with Pakistan on cease fire line or any other country (c) Fighting against armed
hostiles in a counter insurgency environment viz. Nagaland, Mizoram, etc. (d) Serving with peacekeeping mission abroad (e) Laying or clearance of mines including enemy mines as also mine sweeping operation between one month before and three months after conclusion of an operation (f) Frost-bite during actual operations or during the period specified by the Government (g) Dealing with agitating Para-Military forces personnel (h) IPKF personnel killed during the operations in Sri Lanka.
Note:
1) Candidates, who are released / retired from Armed Forces, or whose SPE is likely to be completed on or before 30.05.2014 only are eligible to apply under this recruitment. They will also be required to submit the release letter along with a self-declaration at the time of joining RBI that he/she is entitled to the benefits admissible to Ex-Serviceman in terms of Govt. of India rules. Those candidates, who have already completed their initial period of engagement and are on extended assignment are required to submit certificates to that effect. If selected, all such candidates mentioned above, should get released and join RBI on or before 30.06.2014. Forms of the certificates to be submitted by all these candidates are provided in Annex II and these are submitted at the time of interview invariably.
2) The Territorial Army Personnel will be treated as Ex-Serviceman w.e.f. 15.11.1986.
3) An Ex-Serviceman who has once joined a Government job on the civil side after availing of the benefits given to him as an Ex-Serviceman for his re-employment, his Ex-Serviceman status for the purpose of re-employment in Government ceases.
4) Dependents of Servicemen killed in action are eligible for reservation. 4.5% of the total vacancies are reserved for Disabled Ex-Serviceman and dependents of Servicemen killed in action, clubbed together. First priority in the matter of appointment will be given to the Disabled Ex-Serviceman and second priority will be given to two dependents of Defence personnel killed in action or severely disabled (with over 50% disability attributable to defence services). For the purpose of this concession, the member of the family would include his widow, son, daughter or his near relations who agree to support his family. The relaxation in upper age and educational qualifications available to ExServiceman/Disabled Ex-Serviceman will not be available to Dependents of Servicemen killed in action.
3. Reservation for Persons with Disability (PWD):
A. Persons with Disabilities:
(i) Orthopedically Handicapped are those who have a physical defect or deformity which causes an interference with the normal functioning of the bones, muscles and joints. The degree of disability should be minimum 40% in these cases.
(ii) Hearing Impaired are those in whom the sense of hearing is non-functional for ordinary purposes of life. They do not hear, understand sounds at all, even with amplified speech. The cases included in this category will be those having hearing loss more than 60 decibels in the better ear (profound impairment) or total loss of hearing in both ears.
(iii) For being considered as a Visually Handicapped candidate, the candidate should fulfill either of the following conditions:
(a) Total absence of sight.
(b) With visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with correcting
lenses.
(c) With limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of 20 degrees or worse.
(iv) The Persons with Disability (PWD) candidates should possess a latest Certificate to this effect issued by an authorized Government of India/State Government Department/ Hospital.
(v) Candidates falling in the following categories of the disabled may apply:OA - One arm affected (Right or Left) –BL – Both legs affected but not arms, OL – One leg affected (Right or Left), PD – Partially deaf, D – Deaf, B – Blind, LV – Low Vision
Note: Within the overall notified total vacancies, Persons With Disability (PWD) candidates belonging to
any of the three categories of disability (who are eligible for the post as explained above) will be considered
for selection, subject to their suitability, over and above the vacancies, notified/not notified for PWD in this
advertisement, in order to clear the backlog of PWD vacancies.
B. Guidelines for PWD Using of scribe:
The blind candidates/low vision candidates and candidates who are locomotor impaired in both hands and both arms and candidates whose writing speed is affected by cerebral palsy can use own scribe at their cost during the online examination. In all such cases where a scribe is used, the following rules will apply:
i) The candidate will have to arrange his/her own scribe at his/her own cost.
ii) The scribe can be from any academic discipline.
iii) Both the candidate as well as the scribe will have to give a suitable undertaking in the prescribed format with passport size photograph of scribe. Further, in case it later transpires that he/she did not fulfil any of the laid-down criteria or suppressed material facts, the candidature of the applicant will stand cancelled, irrespective of the result of the online test. Proforma of the undertaking is available on the RBI website
iv) Such candidates who use a scribe shall be eligible for compensatory time of 20 minutes for
every hour of the examination.
The scribe will be allowed to be used as per the guidelines issued vide Office Memorandum F.No.16-110/2003-DDIII dated February 26, 2013 of Government of India, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Department of Disability Affairs, New Delhi.
4. Eligibility Criteria :
(a) Age (as on 01-05-2013): Between 18 and 28 years. Candidates must have been born not earlier than 02/05/1985 and
not later than 01/05/1995 (both days including) are only eligible to apply.
Relaxation in the Upper Age Limit:
Upper age limit will be relaxed as under :
Candidates seeking age relaxation are required to submit copies of necessary certificate(s) at the time of
interview.
(b) Educational Qualifications (as on 01-05-2013):
i) At least a Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline with a minimum of 50% marks (pass class for SC/ST/PWD candidates) in the aggregate and the knowledge of word processing on PC.
ii) A candidate belonging to Ex-servicemen category should either be a graduate from a recognized University or should have passed the matriculation or its equivalent examination of the Armed Forces and rendered at least 15 years of defence service.
iii) Candidates applying for post in a particular state should be proficient in the language of the state i.e. know to read, write, speak and understand the language.
(c) Scheme of Selection:
Selection will be through Online Examination and Interview. The Online Examination will be for 200 marks and is tentatively scheduled to be held on 20.07.2013,21.07.2013,27.07.2013,28.07.2013
Name of Tests (Objective) No of Questions Maximum Marks Total Time=2h.
Test of Reasoning 40 40
Test of English Language 40 40
Test of Numerical Ability 40 40
Test of General Awareness 40 40
Test of Computer Knowledge 40 40
Total 200 200
i) The above tests except the Test of English Language will be available bilingually, i.e. English and
Hindi.
ii) A candidate has to qualify in each part of the Objective test separately. There will be negative
marks for wrong answers in the Objective tests. 1/4
th
marks will be deducted for each wrong answer.
Candidates will have to pass in each of the objective tests.
iii) Other detailed information regarding the examination will be given in an Information
Handout, which will be made available for the candidates to download along with the call letter for
examination from the RBI’s website
iv) Roll No. of the candidates successful in online examination will be available on RBI’s website
and a brief notice thereof will be published in leading newspapers around end of August 2013.
v) Only such number of candidates will be called for interview who stand sufficiently high in merit
on the aggregate marks of the Objective Tests, such merit being decided by the Bank in relation to the
number of vacancies to be filled in.
vi) Final selection will be on the basis of candidate's performance in the written examination and
interview taken together in order of merit.
(d) Pre-examination Training for SC/ST/PWD candidates
RBI may arrange pre-examination training at certain centres for a limited number of SC/ST/PWD
candidates in consonance with the guidelines issued by Government of India. Candidates belonging to
the above categories who desire to avail themselves of such training may write to the Regional Office of
the Reserve Bank of India to whom the candidate is applying. List of training centres given below is
indicative. Candidates opting for pre-examination training will be intimated about the training by the
Regional Office. All expenses regarding travelling, boarding, lodging etc. will be borne by the candidates
for attending the Pre-Examination Training programme at the concerned Pre-Examination Training
Centre. Depending upon the response and administrative feasibility the right to cancel any of the preexamination training centres and/ or add some other Centres and/ or make alternate arrangements is
reserved. Format of the Application form for pre examination training is available on the RBI website.