Punjab National Bank (PNB)
HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION, HEAD OFFICE
PLOT NO. 4, SECTOR 10, DWARKA, 
NEW DELHI – 110075

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visiit: https://pnb.bank.in/Recruitments.aspx
Closing date for online application: 23.11.2025
Tentative Date of Online Test (wherever required): December 2025/ January 2026

PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK INVITES ONLINE APPLICATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING POST
Post: Local bank Officer (LBO)
Post code: 01
Grade/Scale: JMGS-I
No. of posts: 750, out of which 06 for Visually Impaired
Scale of Pay: 48480-85920/-
State wise posts: 
Gujarat : 01, Karnataka: 01, Maharashtra: 01, Telangana: 01, Tamil Nadu: 01, Assam: 01
Education Qualification: Candidate should be a Graduate in any discipline from a University/ Institution recognized/approved
by Government of India or its regulatory bodies. The candidate must possess valid Mark-sheet  /Degree Certificate that he/ she is a graduate on the day he/ she registers and indicate the percentage of marks obtained in Graduation while registering online

Local Language: Candidates must be proficient (reading, writing & speaking) in the specified local language of
the state for which they are applying, as mentioned in the State – wise vacancy table at Point 1
above.

Experience (Post Mandatory Educational Qualification):: Candidates must possess a minimum of one-year post - qualification work experience in Clerical/ Officer Cadre in any Scheduled Commercial Bank or Regional Rural Bank listed in Second Schedule of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Act, 1934, amended from time to time

One advance increment in pay shall be payable for each prior completed year of service to such selected candidates, who have worked as an Officer in Scheduled Commercial Banks, subject to a maximum of 02 (two) increments, provided that the existing job profile of the candidate is similar to that of a Scale - I Generalist Officer of Punjab National Ban

Candidates who have worked with the subsidiaries of Scheduled Commercial Banks in Officer cadre will be eligible for only one advance increment provided that the existing job profile of the candidate is similar to that of a Scale - I Generalist Officer of Punjab National Bank.

Age: 20-30 years

Age relaxation: 10 years

Under Section 34 of “The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016”, persons with benchmark disabilities are eligible for reservation. The post is identified suitable for the Persons with undernoted categories of disabilities as defined in the Schedule of RPWD Act 2016 and notified by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan) from time to time.

Visual Impairment (“VI” Category): Only those Visually Impaired (VI) persons who suffer from any one of the following conditions, after best correction, are eligible to apply.
a. Blindness:
i. Total absence of sight; or
ii. Visual acuity less than 3/60 or less than 10/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with best possible correction; or
iii. Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of less than 10 degree.
b. Low Vision:
i. Visual acuity not exceeding 6/18 or less than 20/60 upto 3/60 or upto 10/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with best possible corrections; or
ii. Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of less than 40 degree up to 10 degree.

DoP&T in consultation with Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD) vide OM No. 36035/8/2023-Estt. (Res-II) dated 19.05.2023 has advised that it may not be appropriate to grant the benefit of reservation in jobs which are permanent in nature on the basis of temporary certificate of disability as this will have adverse bearing on genuine persons with benchmark disabilities with irreversible permanent disability.

A person who wants to avail benefit of reservation will have to submit a permanent disability certificate issued by a competent authority as per Government of India guidelines and this certificate will be subject to verification/ re-verification as may be decided by the Bank.

SELECTION PROCEDURE:

The selection process for the post of Local Bank Officer shall be conducted in four phases, namely: I. Online Written test II. Screening III. Language Proficiency Test followed by IV.
Personal Interview. The Bank reserves the absolute right to decide whether all or any of these modes shall be adopted for selection for the notified post

Candidates who have not studied the local language of the State for which they have applied as a subject in 10th or 12th standard will be required to appear in the Local Language Proficiency Test (LLPT).

Guidelines for Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD) using the services of a Scribe for Online Examination

The scribe will be allowed to be used as per the guidelines issued vide Office Memorandum F.No.
16-110/2003-DD III dated February 26, 2013 of Government of India, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Department of Disability Affairs, New Delhi and clarification issued by Government
of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Financial Services vide letter F.No. 3/2/2013-Welfare dated 26.04.2013; Office Memorandum F.No. 34-02/2015- DD-III dated 29.08.2018 and F.No. 29-
6/2019-DD-III dated 10.08.2022 of Government of India, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan). In all such cases where a scribe is used, the following rules will apply:

The candidate will have to arrange his/ her own scribe at his/ her own cost.

The scribe may be from an academic stream different from that stipulated for the post. Both the candidate as well as scribe will have to give a suitable undertaking confirming that the scribe fulfils all the stipulated eligibility criteria for a scribe mentioned above. Further in case it later transpires that he/she did not fulfil any laid down eligibility criteria or suppressed material facts, the candidature of the applicant will stand cancelled, irrespective of the result of the online written test, if any.

Deliberate wrong information about the candidate/ scribe in declaration form submitted at the time of online application or at the time of examination or at any stage would render the candidate and scribe being debarred either permanently or for a specified period of time for examination

Those candidates who use a scribe shall be eligible for compensatory time of 20 minutes or otherwise advised for every hour of the examination.

If violation of the above is detected at any stage of the process, candidature of the applicant will be cancelled. Candidates eligible for and who wish to use the services of a scribe in the examination should invariably carefully indicate the same in the online application form. Any subsequent request may not be favorably entertained.

Only candidates registered for compensatory time (at the time of online registration) will be allowed such concessions since compensatory time given to candidates shall be system based and it shall not be possible for the test conducting agency to allow such time if he /she is not registered for the same

During the exam, at any stage, if it is found that scribe is independently answering the questions, the exam session will be terminated and candidate’s candidature will be cancelled. The candidature of such candidates using the services of a scribe will also be cancelled if it is reported after the examination by the test administrator personnel that the scribe independently answered the questions.

Visually Impaired candidates (who suffer from not less than 40% of disability) may opt to view the contents of the test in magnified font and all such candidates will be eligible for compensatory time of 20 minutes for every hour or otherwise advised of examination. The facility of viewing the contents of the test in magnifying font will not be available to Visually Impaired candidates who use the services of a Scribe for the examination.

Compensatory time of not less than twenty minutes per hour of the examination shall be allowed or persons who are eligible for getting scribe. 

APPLICATION FEE (NON-REFUNDABLE)

SC/ST/PwBD category candidates: Rs. 50/- + GST @18% = Rs. 59/- (only postage charges)

HOW TO APPLY

Candidates can only apply online from 03.11.2025 to 23.11.2025 through the Bank’s website
https://pnb.bank.in/ under Recruitment/ Career. No other mode of application will be accepted.

Candidates are required to apply online through website https://pnb.bank.in/. No other means/ mode of application will be accepted

Candidates are required to take a printout of the e-receipt and online application form. Please note that if the same cannot be generated then online transaction may not have been successful. 

No Travelling Allowance is payable to candidates who are called for the Online Test & LLPT. However, unemployed SC/ ST candidates who are called for Interview, will be paid actual to and fro 2nd Class Rail/ Ordinary Bus fare, in terms of Govt. guidelines, by the shortest route on production of evidence of travel i.e. Railway Receipt/ Ticket(s) for attending the Interview