ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA For IBPS RRB VIII Recruitment 2019
B. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
Prospective
Candidates should ensure that they fulfill the specified eligibility criteria
before applying for the CRP: Candidates
may please note that the eligibility criteria specified are the basic criteria
for appointment to the aforesaid posts in the Regional Rural Banks. However
merely applying for, qualifying in the CRP and getting provisionally allotted
in one of the RRBs does not imply that a candidate will necessarily be eligible
for employment in any of the Regional Rural Banks. It is expressly clarified
that the ultimate authority for recruitment is the Regional Rural Bank itself.
The RRB concerned may, in its sole discretion, reject the candidature of anyone
provisionally allotted to it through the CRP.
Please note that the eligibility
criteria specified herein are the basic criteria for applying for the post.
Candidates must necessarily produce the relevant documents in original and a
photocopy in support of their identity and eligibility - pertaining to
category, nationality, age, educational qualifications, etc. as indicated in the
online application form at the time of interview/document verification, as the case may be. Please note that no change of the category will be permitted at any stage after registration of the online
application and the result will be processed considering the category which has
been indicated in the online application, subject to guidelines of the
Government of India in this regard. Merely applying for CRP/ appearing for and
being shortlisted in the Online Examination (Preliminary and Main) and/or in
the subsequent interview and/or provisionally allotted and/or subsequent
processes do not imply that a candidate will necessarily be offered
employment in any of the Regional Rural Banks. No request for considering the
candidature under any category other than the one in which one has applied will
be entertained.
I
Nationality / Citizenship:
A
candidate must be either -
(i)
a
Citizen of India or
(ii)
a subject of Nepal or
(iii)
a subject of Bhutan or
(iv)
a
Tibetan Refugee who came over to India before 1st January 1962 with
the intention of permanently settling in India or
(v)
a
person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka, East
African countries of Kenya,
Uganda,
the United Republic of Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika and Zanzibar), Zambia,
Malawi, Zaire, Ethiopia, and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling
in India, provided that a candidate belonging to categories (ii), (iii), (iv)
& (v) above shall be a person in whose favor a certificate of eligibility
has been issued by the Government of India.
II
Age (As on 01.06.2019)
For
Officer Scale- III (Senior Manager)- Above 21 years - Below 40 years i.e. candidates should not
have been born earlier than 03.06.1979
and later than 31.05.1998 (both dates inclusive)
For
Officer Scale-II (Manager)- Above 21 years - Below 32 years i.e. candidates should not
have been born earlier than 03.06.1987
and later than 31.05.1998 (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 03.06.1989
and later than 31.05.2001 (both
dates inclusive)
For
Office Assistant (Multipurpose) - Between 18 years and 28 years i.e. candidates should have
not been born earlier than 02.06.1991
and later than 01.06.2001 (both dates inclusive)
The maximum age limit specified
above is applicable to General Category candidates and EWS category candidates
only. For other categories the following relaxations would apply:
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Sr. No.
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Category
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Age relaxation
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1
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Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe
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5 years
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2
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Other Backward Classes
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3 years
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3
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Persons With Benchmark Disability
as defined under “The Rights of Persons With Disabilities Act, 2016”
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10 years
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4 a.
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Ex-Servicemen/ Disabled Ex-Servicemen
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(for the post of Office Assistant (Multipurpose)) the actual period of service rendered in the defense forces + 3 years (8 years for Disabled
ex-servicemen belonging to SC/ST) subject to a maximum age limit of 50 years
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4 b.
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In the
case of Ex-servicemen commissioned officers, including ECOs/ SSCOs, who have
rendered at least 5 years military service and have been released on
completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be
completed within the next one year from the last date for receipt of
application) other than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of
misconduct or inefficiency or on account of physical disability attributable
to military service or on the invalidment subject to the ceiling as per Government
guidelines
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(for the post of Officers
5 years
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)
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5
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Widows, Divorced women, and women legally separated from
their husbands who have not remarried
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(only for the
(Multipurpose))
9 years
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post
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of
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Office
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Assistant
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6
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Persons ordinarily domiciled in
the State of Jammu & Kashmir during the period 1-1-80 to 31-12-89
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5 years
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7
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Persons affected by 1984 riots
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5 years
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NOTE:
i.
The relaxation in upper age limit to
SC/ST/OBC candidates is allowed on a cumulative basis together with only one of
the remaining categories for which age relaxation is permitted as mentioned
above at Sr. Nos. 3 to 7 in the above Table.
ii.
Candidates applying for the posts of
Officers Scale I, II and III, seeking age relaxation, will be required to
submit copies of necessary certificate(s) at the time of Interview co-ordinated
by the Nodal RRB with the help of NABARD and IBPS in consultation with
appropriate authority, if shortlisted for interview. Candidates applying for
the post of Office Assistant (Multipurpose) must produce the above mentioned
documents at the time of verification of documents on the day of/before the
day of joining the allotted RRB, if provisionally allotted.
Caste
/ Category Certificate issued by a competent authority in the prescribed format
as stipulated by Government of India in case of SC / ST / OBC/ PWBD category
candidates.
In
case of candidates belonging to OBC category, the certificate should specifically
contain a clause that the candidate does not belong to creamy layer section
excluded from the benefits of reservation for Other Backward Classes in Civil
post & services under Government of India. Candidates
belonging to OBC category but coming under creamy layer are not entitled to OBC reservation. They should indicate their category as General in the online
application form.
iii.
Ex-Servicemen
candidates who have already secured employment under the Central Government in
Group ‘C’ & ‘D’ will be permitted the benefit of age relaxation as
prescribed for Ex-Servicemen for securing another employment in a higher grade
or cadre in Group ‘C’/ ‘D’ under the Central Government. However, such
candidates will not be eligible for the
benefit of reservation on the second occasion for Ex-Servicemen in Central
Government jobs.
iv.
An
ex-Serviceman who has once joined a Government job on civil side after availing
of the benefits given to him/her as an Ex-Servicemen for his/her re-employment,
his/her Ex-Servicemen status for the purpose for further employment on the
civil side ceases.
v.
The
persons serving in the Armed Forces of the Union, who on retirement from
service would come under the category of ‘ex-servicemen’ may apply for
re-employment one year before the
completion of the specified term of engagement (from the last date of
application) and avail themselves of all concessions available to ex-servicemen
but shall not be permitted to leave the uniform until they complete the
specified term of engagement in the Armed Forces of the Union.
III Reservation for Persons with Benchmark
Disabilities
Under section 34 of “The Rights of
Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016”, persons with benchmark disabilities are
eligible for Reservation. The reserved categories of disabilities mentioned
under this Act are namely:
a.
Blindness and low vision;
b. deaf
and hard of hearing;
c.
locomotor disability including
cerebral palsy. leprosy cured, dwarfism, acid attack victims and muscular
dystrophy;
d. autism,
intellectual disability, specific learning disability, and mental illness;
e.
multiple disabilities from amongst
persons under clauses (a) to (d) including deaf-blindness in the
posts identified for each disability:
Note: Definition of the above
specified disabilities will be as per “THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
ACT, 2016”.
The allocation of reserved vacancies
for the persons with benchmark disabilities will be as prescribed in the “The
Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016” and as per vacancies reported to
IBPS by the RRBs.
(i) Guidelines for Persons With Benchmark Disabilities using a Scribe
The
visually impaired candidates and candidates whose writing speed is adversely
affected permanently for any reason can use their own scribe at their cost
during the online examination. 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 any academic stream.
However, for Specialist Officers’ posts, the scribe should be from an
academic stream different from that prescribed for the post.
•
Both
the candidate, as well as scribe, will have to give a suitable undertaking
confirming that the scribe fulfills 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 canceled, irrespective of the result of the CRP.
•
Those
candidates who use a scribe shall be eligible for compensatory time of 20
minutes or otherwise advised for every hour of the examination.
•
The scribe arranged by the candidate
should not be a candidate for the online
examination under CRP RRB VIII. If violation of the above is detected at any
stage of the process, candidature for CRP of both the candidate and the scribe
will be canceled. 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,
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.
(ii) Guidelines for Candidates with locomotor disability and cerebral palsy
A
compensatory time of twenty minutes per hour or otherwise advised shall be
permitted for the candidates with locomotor disability and cerebral palsy where
dominant (writing) extremity is affected to the extent of slowing the
performance of function (minimum of 40% impairment).
(iii) 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.
(iv) Guidelines for Candidates with Intellectual Disability (ID)
A Compensatory time of twenty minutes per hour of
examination, either availing the services of a scribe or not, shall be
permitted to the candidates with more than 40% Intellectual Disability (autism,
intellectual disability, specific learning disability, and mental illness).
These guidelines are subject to
change in terms of GOI guidelines/ clarifications, if any, from time to time.
IV
DEFINITION OF
EX-SERVICEMEN (EXSM)
(Applicable for the post of Office Assistant (Multipurpose)
i.
Ex-Servicemen (EXSM): Only those candidates shall be
treated as Ex-Servicemen who fulfill 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.
ii. Disabled
Ex-Servicemen (DISXS)
: Disabled Ex-Servicemen: Ex-Servicemen who while serving in Armed Forces of
the Union were disabled during war or in peacetime but their disability being
attributable to Military service, shall be treated as Disabled Ex-Servicemen.
iii. Dependents
of Servicemen killed in Action (DXS): 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 ceasefire
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 the 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. The reservation available to such candidates shall be as mentioned
under point no. (b) given under the vacancy table. For the purpose of this
reservation, the member of the family would include his widow, son, and daughter
or near relations who agree to support his family. The relaxation in upper age
and educational qualifications available to Ex-servicemen will not be available
to dependents of Servicemen killed in action.
NOTE:
1) (i) Candidates, who are released/retired from Armed Forces are required to
submit a certificate as per Proforma ‘A' attached to this advertisement if they
do not possess discharge certificate/booklet, (ii) The candidates, who are
still serving in Armed Forces and desirous of applying under Ex-Servicemen the category will be required to submit a certificate (Proforma ‘B’) from the
competent authority showing his/her date of completion of the specific period
of engagement
(SPE)
along with declaration (Proforma ‘C’). Such candidates whose SPE is completed
on or before 03.07.2020 only are eligible to apply under this recruitment. They
will also be required to submit the release letter along with a
self-declaration at the time of joining the Bank that he/she is entitled to the
benefits admissible to Ex-Servicemen in terms of Govt. of India rules, (iii)
Those candidates, who have already completed their initial period of engagement
and are on extended assignment, are required to submit a certificate as per
Proforma ‘D'. If selected, such candidates mentioned in (ii) and (iii) above,
should get released and join the Bank on or before 03.07.2020. These
certificates are required to be submitted at the time of joining
invariably.
2) The Territorial Army Personnel will
be treated as Ex-Servicemen w.e.f. 15.11.1986.
3) An Ex-Serviceman who has once joined
a Government job on the civil side after availing of the benefits given to him
as an Ex-Serviceman for his re-employment, his Ex-Serviceman status will be
governed in terms of OM No.36034/1/2014Estt.(Res.) dated 14.08.2014.
Important:
- Govt. Guidelines regarding Definitions, relaxation, etc. are subject to change
from time to time. It is expressly
clarified that any person who is employed by any branch of the armed services
at the time of submission of his/her, the application form cannot be considered as an Ex-Serviceman unless he/she fulfills
the prescribed conditions mentioned in the
Advertisement.
V EWS (Economically Weaker Section)
1. Persons who are not covered under the existing scheme of
reservations to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the Other
Backward Classes and whose family has a gross annual income below Rs.8.00 lakh
(Rupees eight lakh only) are to be identified as EWSs for the benefit of
reservation. The income shall include income from all sources i.e. salary,
agriculture, business, profession, etc. and it will be income for the financial
year prior to the year of application. Also, persons whose family owns or
possesses any of the following assets shall be excluded from being identified
as EWSs, irrespective of the family income:
i.) 5 acres of Agricultural Land and
above; ii.) Residential
flat of 1000 sq. ft. and above; iii.)
Residential plot of 100 sq. yards and above in notified
municipalities; iv.) Residential plot of 200 sq. yards and above in areas other
than the notified municipalities.
2. The property held by a
"Family" in different locations or different places/cities would be
clubbed while applying the land or property holding a test to determine EWS
status.
3. The benefit of reservation under EWS
can be availed upon production of an Income and Asset Certificate issued by a
Competent Authority. The Income and Asset Certificate issued by any one of the Authorities as notified by the
Government
of India in the prescribed format shall only be accepted as proof of
candidate's claim as belonging to EWS. The candidates shortlisted for document
verification/interview shall be required to bring the requisite certificate as
specified by the Government of India at the time of appearing for the process
of document verification/interview.
4. The term "Family" for this
purpose will include the person who seeks the benefit of reservation, his/her
parents and siblings below the age of 18 years as also his/her spouse and
children below the age of 18 years.
5. The instructions issued by the
Government of India in this regard from time to time shall be adhered to.
Disclaimer:”
EWS vacancies are tentative and
subject to further directives of Government of India and outcome of any
litigation.