Reserve Bank of India Name of Post- Assistants No. of Vacancies-506 Last date- 06.08.2014

Recruitment for the post of Assistant

The Reserve Bank of India invites applications from eligible candidates for 506 posts of “Assistant” in various offices of the Bank. Selection for the post will be through a country-wide competitive Online Examination and Interview. The full text of the advertisement is available on the Banks’ website www.rbi.org.in and is also being published in the Employment News/ Rojghar Samachar on or after July 26, 2014. Application will be accepted only Online through the Banks’ website. Important Dates: Website Link Open 16.07.2014 to 06.08.2014 Payment of Examination Fees Online 16.07.2014 to 06.08.2014 At Bank Branches 18.07.2014 to 11.08.2014 Schedule of Online Test (Tentative) Varied dates around fourth week of September 2014 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 1800222366 or ibpso@ibps.in Don’t forget to mention ‘RBI Assistant Examination’ in the subject box of the email. Sr. No Office Vacancies PWD # EXS # SC ST OBC GEN Total VI HI OH EX-1 EX-2 1 Ahmedabad 2 3 0 5 10 1 0 0 0 1 2 Bangalore 6 3(1) 10 18 37 1 0 0 2 4 3 Bhopal 5 8 5 19 37 0 1 0 2 4 4 Bhubaneswar 4 5 3 13 25 0 0 0 1 3 5 Chandigarh 10 0 8 22 40 1 0 0 2 4 6 Chennai 4 2 8 16 30 1 0 0 1 3 7 Guwahati 1 2 2 5 10 0 0 0 0 1 8 Hyderabad 7(1) 2 9 18 36 1 1 0 2 4 9 Jaipur 5(1) 3 5 13 26 0 0 1 1 3 10 Jammu 1 1 3 5 10 0 0 0 0 1 11 Kanpur & Lucknow 10 0 13 23 46 1 1 0 2 5 12 Kolkata 1 7 7 15 30 1 0 1 1 3 13 Mumbai 6 6 18 30 60 1 1 0 3 6 14 Nagpur 10 0 0 10 20 0 0 1 1 2 15 New Delhi 4 0 6 10 20 0 0 1 1 2 16 Patna 4 1 2 32 39 1 0 0 2 4 17 Thiruvananthapuram & Kochi 0 0 11 19 30 0 0 0 1 3 Total 80 43 110 273 506 9 4 4 22 53 The vacancies in brackets () indicate backlog. (Bhopal includes 2 vacancies for Raipur, Chandigarh includes 3 vacancies for Shimla, Guwahati includes 2 vacancies for Agartala and 2 for Shillong, Kanpur and Lucknow includes 2 vacancies for Dehradun, Mumbai includes 1 vacancy for Panaji and 8 for CAB Pune, Patna includes 4 vacancies for Ranchi) Abbreviations stand for: SC – Scheduled Caste, ST – Scheduled Tribe, OBC – Other Backward Classes, GEN – General i.e. Unreserved, PWD – Persons with Disabilities, VI – Visually Impaired, HI – Hearing Impaired, OH – Orthopedically Handicapped,EXS – Ex-Servicemen, EX-1 - Disabled Ex-servicemen/ Dependants of Ex-servicemen killed in action, Ex-2 - Ex-servicemen (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. 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, was 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 peace-keeping 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. Sr. No. Name of Tests (Objective) No of Questions Maximum Marks Total Time 1 Test of Reasoning 40 40 2 Hours 2 Test of English Language 40 40 3 Test of Numerical Ability 40 40 4 Test of General Awareness 40 40 5 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. 1/4th 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 anInformation Handout, which will be made available for the candidates to downloadalong 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 in October 2014. 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/OBC/PWD candidates