Special Recruitment Drive for Persons with Disabilities (PWD) - Officer Grade A – General Stream, Official Language Stream and Information System (Technical Stream) {IT Stream} Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), is a statutory regulatory body established by an Act of Parliament, to protect the interests of investors in securities, to promote the development of and to regulate the securities market. 
 

SEBI invites applications from Indian citizens belonging to Persons with Disabilities (PWD) – Visually Handicapped (VH) and Hearing Handicapped (HH) category for the post of Officer Grade A – General,Official Language and IT Stream. SEBI reserves the right to fill up the post or not to fill up the post at all.

 

Post: Officer Grade A – General

No. of post: 01 for Visually Impaired

Age Limit: PWD : 37 years, PWD + OBC (NCL): 40 years, PWD + SC/ST: 42 years
 

Qualification: Master’s Degree in Economics/Commerce/ MBA/ Post Graduate Degree in Management/ Post Graduate Diploma in Management with 50% marks in the aggregate, CA/CFA/CS/ICWA.

 

Pay: Rs. 17100--33200/-

 

Posting: The incumbent may be posted and transferred to any location in India where SEBI has its Offices.

 

EXAMINATION CENTRES:

The On-Line examination will be held at the following centres:

 

Chennai Kolkata/ Greater Kolkata 

Mumbai/Greater Mumbai/Navi Mumbai/Thane 

New Delhi-NCR

APPLICATION FEE (NON-REFUNDABLE): Rs. 100/- as intimation charges plus applicable bank charges

 

Definition of Person with Disabilities: 
 

Under Section 33 of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995, only such persons would be eligible for reservation who suffer from not less than 40% of relevant disability and are certified by a Medical Board constituted by the Central/State Government. 

 

The definitions of the categories of disabilities for the purpose of reservation in the employment are as under:

 

Visually impaired (VI)

 

Blindness refers to condition where a person suffers from any of the following conditions namely (i) Total absence of sight, (ii) Visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (snellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses. (iii) Limitation of the field of vision subtending in angle of 20 degrees or worse.

 

Low vision means a person with impairment of visual functioning ever after treatment or standard refractive correction but who uses or is potentially capable of using vision for the planning or execution of a task with appropriate assistive device.
 

GUIDELINES FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES USING A SCRIBE:

 

The visually impaired candidates can use their own scribe at their cost during the online examination, subjects to limits as in (i) below. 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 can be from any academic discipline in case of General Stream. In case of Information System (Technical Stream) and Official Language Stream, the scribe should 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 in the prescribed format with passport size photograph of the scribe along with call letter at the time of examination 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 fulfill any laid down eligibility criteria or suppressed material facts the candidature of the applicant will stand cancelled, 

irrespective of the result of the online examination. Proforma of undertaking is available on SEBI web site.

 

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

 

A person acting as scribe for one candidate cannot be a scribe for another candidate. In addition the scribe arranged by the Candidate should not be a candidate for the same examination. If violation of the above is detected at any stage of the process, candidature of both the candidate and the scribe 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 will be allowed such concessions since compensatory time given to candidates shall be system based, it shall not be possible for the test conducting agency to allow such time if he / she is not registered for the same. Candidates not registered for compensatory time shall not be allowed such concessions. 

 

Guidelines for Visually Impaired candidates:

 

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. 
 

Candidate, who is eligible and desires to apply for the above post, should submit an ON-LINE application with requisite fee/ intimation charges (wherever applicable). 

 

Outstation candidates called for Interview will be reimbursed single AC Three Tier Class railway fare for the to and fro journey by the shortest route, subject to submission of necessary documentary evidence.

 

HOW TO APPLY:
 

Candidates are required to apply On-Line through the website www.sebi.gov.in from 01.02.16 to 26.2.16 and no other mode of application will be accepted. Candidates need not submit the system generated print out of the ON-LINE application to SEBI's office.