Banking, Finance & Insurance

The pay scale of officers in Grade A is INR 44500-2500 (4)-54500-2850 (7)-74450-EB-2850 (4)-85850- 3300 (1)-89150 (17 years). The present gross emoluments is INR 1,49,500 without accomodation and INR 1,11,000 with accomodation. The benefits include SEBI’s Contribution towards National Pension Scheme (NPS),  Grade Allowance, Special Allowance, Dearness Allowance, Family Allowance, Local Allowance, Learning Allowance, Special Grade Allowance, Special Compensatory Allowance, etc. Other benefits include Leave Fare Concession, Medical Expenses, Eye Refraction, Education Allowance, Financial Dailies, Book Grant, Briefcase, Conveyance Expenses, House Cleaning Allowance,  Staff Furnishing Scheme, Scheme for Purchasing Computers, Subsidized Lunch Facility.

SEBI Grade A is an Assistant manager role and candidates work towards creating an environment where it is easy and fair to trade. Candidates will also audit and track individuals who are trading using unfair means. As a SEBI Grade A officer, candidates' job is similar to a data analyst or an entry-level auditor. Candidates are most probably be starting off with back-end office work and they will gradually progress to a position where they will have to deal with people a lot.

As an RBI recruit for the Grade B position, candidates will have a managerial role and they will have to execute policy decisions handed to them by the senior management. Hence candidates initially not be part of any policymaking or assist in the policy creation process until they reach Grade D. 

Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) conducts IBPS RRB exam for recruitment to the Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) or Gramin Banks. IBPS organises the RRB CWE Exam every year for the recruitment to the posts of Officers Scale 1, 2, 3 and Office Assistant. The exam is conducted online. IBPS is fully responsible for conducting RRB Common Written Exam (CWE). For the post of Office Assistant (Multipurpose) the examination is conducted in two phases i.e.  preliminary and mains. For the post of Officers Scale 1, the exam is conducted in three phases-prelims , mains and interview. For the post of Officers Scale 2 and 3, the exam is conducted in two phases single online exam and interview. In recent years, the level of competition for IBPS RRB exams has spurt exponentially. Graduates from any field of study can attempt this exam. 

The prelims exam of IBPS RRB is conducted at more than 170 cities while theMainsexam is conducted at more than 70 cities. The exam of IBPS RRB is conducted in various venues across many centres in India.  No request for change of centre for examination is entertained. IBPS, however, reserves the right to cancel any of the Examination Centres and/ or add some other Centres, at its discretion, depending upon the response, administrative feasibility, etc. IBPS also reserves the right to allot the candidate to any centre other than the one he/she has opted for and a candidate may be allocated a centre of exam outside the State/UT for which vacancies he/she is applying. Candidate will appear for the examination at an Examination Centre at his/her own risk and expenses and IBPS will not be responsible for any injury or losses etc. of any nature. Any unruly behaviour/misbehaviour in the examination hall may result in cancellation of candidature/ disqualification from the exam and also from the future exams conducted by IBPS.

The steps to upload the scanned photograph and signature while filling IBPS RRB application form are given below:

• While filling in the IBPS RRB application form the candidate is provided with separate links for uploading photograph, signature, left thumb impression and hand written declaration and certificate.
• Click on the respective link Upload photograph/ signature/ left thumb impression/ hand written declaration/ certificate.
• Browse and select the location where the Scanned photograph/ signature/ left thumb impression / hand written declaration/ certificate file has been saved.
• Select the file by clicking on it. Click the Open/Upload button.
• If the file size and format are not as prescribed, an error message is displayed Preview the uploaded image as it will help to see the quality of the image. In case of unclear / smudged, the same may be re-uploaded to the expected clarity /quality.

IBPS RRB Online Application will not be registered unless candidates upload their Photograph,  signature, left thumb impression, hand written declaration and certificate.

IBPS RRB eligibility criteria is prescribed by the examination authority separately for different posts. The basic educational qualification for IBPS RRB exam is graduation. However, the educational qualification vary post-wise. The post-wise age limit for IBPS RRB exam is given below:

For Officer Scale- III (Senior Manager): Above 21 years-Below 40 years i.e. candidatesshould not have been born earlier than 03.06.1983 and later than 31.05.2002 (both dates inclusive)
For Officer Scale- II (Manager): Above 21 years - Below 32 years i.e. candidatesshould not have been born earlier than 03.06.1991 and later than 31.05.2002 (both dates inclusive)
For Officer Scale- I (Assistant Manager): Above 18 years - Below 30 years i.e. candidates should not have been born earlier than 03.06.1993 and later than 31.05.2005 (both dates inclusive)
For Office Assistant (Multipurpose): Between 18 years and 28 years i.e. candidates should not have been born earlier than 02.06.1995 and later than 01.06.2005 (both dates inclusive)

The upper age limit is relaxed for candidates belonging to reserved categories.