Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit  www.rbi.org.in 

Last date for submission of ON-LINE applications is 19.02.2018

Recruitment for the post of Assistant - Special Drive for PWD candidates.

The Reserve Bank of India invites applications from eligible candidates for 27 posts of “Assistant” in various offices of the Bank. Selection for the post (Special Drive for PWD candidates-2018) will be through a country-wide competitive examination in two phases i.e. Preliminary and Main examination followed by a
Language Proficiency Test (LPT).

Applications are invited from eligible Indian Citizens for the post of Assistant (special drive for PwD candidates) in Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

Post: Assistant
No. of posts: 27, out of which 05 for Visually Impaired
Chandigarh: 01, Jaipur: 01, Kanpur & Lucknow: 01, Kolkata: 02

Reservation for Persons with Disability (PWD):

For being considered as a Visually Impaired candidate, the candidate should fulfill either of the following conditions:

a) Total absence of sight.

(b) With visual acuity not less than 3/60 or less than 10/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with best possible correction.

(c) With limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of 10 degrees or worse.

(d) Low vision means a condition where a person has visual acuity not exceeding 6/18 or less than 20/60 up to 3/60 or up to 10/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with best possible corrections.

(e) Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of less than 40 degree up to 10 degree.

(iv) The Persons with Disability (PWD) candidates should possessa latest Certificate to this effect issued by an authorized Government of India/State Government Department/ Hospital.

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 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.

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.

(iii) The candidates as defined under Section 34 (1) (d) &(e) of RPWD Act., 2016 will have to indicate while applying online, whether he/she need scribe or otherwise.

The above guidelines are subject to change in terms of GOI guidelines/ clarifications, if any, from time to time.

Age: 20-28 years
Age Relaxation: 10 years for PwD candidates.

Educational Qualifications: 
i) At least a Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline with pass class for 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 recruiting office should be proficient in the language (i.e. know to read, write, speak and understand the language) of the state/ any of the states falling under the recruiting office.

Pre-examination Training for PWD candidates

RBI may arrange combined pre-examination training at certain centres for a limited number of 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 pre-examination training centres and/ or add some
other Centres and/ or make alternative arrangements is reserved.
Format of the Application form for pre examination training is available on the RBI website.

Pay Scale: Rs. 14650/- per month

Selected candidates will be initially posted in RBI’s office within the Recruitment Zone for which they had applied. However, they are liable to be transferred in administrative exigencies to centres grouped and classified into West, South, North and East Zone offices as under:

(a) West Zone:

Ahmedabad, Bhopal (including Raipur), Mumbai (including Belapur, Pune and Panaji), Nagpur.

(b) South Zone:

Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Thiruvananthapuram (including Kochi).

(c) North Zone:

Chandigarh (including Shimla), Jaipur, Jammu / Srinagar, Kanpur, (including Lucknow & Dehradun), New Delhi.

(d) East Zone:

Bhubaneswar, Guwahati (including all North Eastern states excluding Gangtok), Kolkata (including Gangtok), Patna (including Ranchi)

HOW TO APPLY:Candidates can apply online on RBI website www.rbi.org.in and click on the option "Recruitment for the post of Assistant " (Special drive for PWD candidates-2018) which will open a new screen.