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COMMON WRITTEN EXAMINATION [CWE] for recruitment of Officers

 (Scale-I, II & III) and Office Assistants

(Multipurpose) in Regional Rural Banks (RRBs)

   The next Common Written  Examination for RRBs (RRBs- CWE-II) for recruitment of

Group-“A”-Officers (Scale-I, II & III) and Group-“B”-Office Assistants (Multipurpose) will be conducted  online by the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS)tentatively in September/ October 2013.

This  system of  Common  Examination  for  recruitment  of  Officers  and  Office  Assistants

(Multipurpose) has been approved by the Government of India, notified by NABARD and has the mandate of each of the RRBs.

IBPS, an autonomous body registered under Societies Registration Act 1860 and a Public Trust

under Bombay Public Trust  Act 1950, has been authorised to conduct the Common Written

Examination, and the participating RRBs are as under.

A. PARTICIPATING RRBs (as on 07.05.2013)

Sr. No.	Name of the RRB	Head Office	State
1	Allahabad UP Gramin Bank	Banda	Uttar Pradesh
2	Andhra Pradesh Grameena Vikas Bank	Warangal	Andhra Pradesh
3	Andhra Pragathi Grameena Bank	Kadapa	Andhra Pradesh
4	Arunachal Pradesh Rural Bank	Naharlagun	Arunachal Pradesh
5	Assam Gramin Vikash Bank	Guwahati	Assam
6	Bangiya Gramin Vikash Bank	Murshidabad	West Bengal
7	Baroda Gujarat Gramin Bank	Bharuch	Gujarat
8	Baroda  Rajasthan  Kshetriya  Gramin Bank	Ajmer	Rajasthan
9	Baroda UP Gramin Bank	Raibareilly	Uttar Pradesh
10	Bihar Gramin Bank	Begusarai	Bihar
11	Central Madhya Pradesh Gramin Bank	Chhindwara	Madhya Pradesh
12	Chaitanya Godavari Grameena Bank	Guntur	Andhra Pradesh
13	Chhattisgarh Gramin Bank	Raipur	Chhattisgarh
14	Deccan Grameena Bank	Hyderabad	Andhra Pradesh
15	Dena Gujarat Gramin Bank	Gandhinagar	Gujarat
16	Durg Rajnandgaon Gramin Bank	Rajnandgaon	Chhattisgarh
17	Ellaquai Dehati Bank	Srinagar	Jammu & Kashmir
18	Gramin Bank of Aryavart	Lucknow	Uttar Pradesh
19	Gurgaon Gramin Bank	Gurgaon	Haryana
20	Haryana Gramin Bank	Rohtak	Haryana
21	Himachal Pradesh Gramin Bank	Mandi	Himachal Pradesh
22	J & K Grameen Bank	Jammu	Jammu & Kashmir
23	Jharkhand Gramin Bank	Ranchi	Jharkhand

24	Karnataka Vikas Grameen Bank	Dharwad	Karnataka
25	Kashi Gomti Samyut Gramin Bank	Varanasi	Uttar Pradesh
26	Kaveri Grameena Bank	Mysore	Karnataka
27	Krishna Grameena Bank	Gulbarga	Karnataka
28	Langpi Dehangi Rural Bank	Diphu	Assam
29	Madhya Bihar Gramin Bank	Patna	Bihar
30	Madhyanchal Gramin Bank	Sagar	Madhya Pradesh
31	Maharashtra Gramin Bank	Nanded	Maharashtra
32	Malwa Gramin Bank	Sangrur	Punjab
33	Manipur Rural Bank	Imphal	Manipur
34	Marudhara Gramin Bank	Jodhpur	Rajasthan
35	Meghalaya Rural Bank	Shillong	Meghalaya
36	Mewar Anchalik Gramin Bank	Udaipur	Rajasthan
37	Mizoram Rural Bank	Aizawl	Mizoram
38	Nagaland Rural Bank	Kohima	Nagaland
39	Narmada Jhabua Gramin Bank	Indore	Madhya Pradesh
40	North Malabar Gramin Bank	Kannur	Kerala
41	Odisha Gramya Bank	Bhubaneshwar	Odisha
42	Pallavan Grama Bank	Salem	Tamil Nadu
43	Pandyan Grama Bank	Virudhunagar	Tamil Nadu
44	Paschim Banga Gramin Bank	Howrah	West Bengal
45	Pragathi Gramin Bank	Bellary	Karnataka
46	Prathma Bank	Moradabad	Uttar Pradesh
47	Puduvai Bharthiar Grama Bank	Puducherry	Puducherry
48	Punjab Gramin Bank	Kapurthala	Punjab
49	Purvanchal Bank	Gorakhpur	Uttar Pradesh
50	Saptagiri Grameena Bank	Chittor	Andhra Pradesh
51	Sarva UP Gramin Bank	Meerut	Uttar Pradesh
52	Saurashtra Gramin Bank	Rajkot	Gujarat
53	South Malabar Gramin Bank	Mallapuram	Kerala
54	Surguja Kshetriya Gramin Bank	Ambikapur	Chhattisgarh
55	Sutlej Gramin Bank	Bhatinda	Punjab
56	Tripura Gramin Bank	Agartala	Tripura
57	Utkal Grameen Bank	Bolangir	Odisha
58	Uttar Banga Kshetriya Gramin Bank	Coochbehar	West Bengal
59	Uttar Bihar Gramin Bank	Muzaffarpur	Bihar
60	Uttarakhand Gramin Bank	Dehradun	Uttarakhand
61	Vananchal Gramin Bank	Dumka	Jharkhand
62	Vidarbha Konkan Gramin Bank	Nagpur	Maharashtra

As per the procedure for recruitment, individuals who aspire to join any of the above Regional Rural

Banks either as an Officer (Scale-I, II & III) or as an Office Assistant (Multipurpose) will necessarily be required to qualify through the CWE. Prospective candidates who wish to appear

 for the CWE will have to apply to IBPS after carefully reading the advertisement as regards eligibility criteria, online registration process, payment ofprescribed application fee/ intimation charges, pattern of examination, issuance of call letters and CWE scores.

Scores of RRBs-CWE-II may also be used by co-op banks and other organizations for their recruitment.

Candidates who had appeared for the CWE will be able to check their status on IBPS website www.ibps.in afterthe examination. Scores of candidates who secure minimum qualifyingmarks and above in each test and on total weighted standard scores, if any, will be displayed on IBPS website.

Successful candidates in the CWE who meet with the stipulated eligibility criteria will then be required to apply to any RRB as and when that individual RRB issues advertisement forinterviews.

It should be noted that IBPS is a test conducting agency. The ultimate recruitment will be done by each participating RRB who will independently issue a separate recruitmentnotification, specifying vacancies and stipulating the eligibility criteria, as desired by respective RRBs. IBPS does not give any guarantee of any recruitment. Recruitment is subject to vacancies of individual RRBs, where IBPS has no role to play.

Candidates can register quoting their registration no., roll no., password etc. Each Regional Rural Bank will then individually shortlist candidates and carry out their own selectionprocesses i.e. Interviews etc. for final selection.

A candidate can apply for the Post of Office Assistant (Multipurpose) and can also apply for the Post of Officer. However a candidate can apply for only one post in officer’s cadre i.e. for Officer Scale-I or Scale-II or Scale-III.

Candidates have to apply separately and pay fees separately for each post applied for. B. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA (as on 01-07-2013)

Prospective Candidates should ensure that they fulfill the specified eligibility criteria before applying for the Common Written Examination (CWE):

However it should be noted that the eligibility criteria specified is the basic criteria for applying to various Regional Rural Banks. However merely applying for and qualifyingin CWE does not imply that a candidate will necessarily be eligible for employment in all or any particular Regional Rural Bank as each Bank will stipulate its own eligibility/qualifying criteria, followed by Interviews etc.

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 1^st 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 favour a certificate of eligibility has been issuedby the Government of India.

II Age (As on 01-07-2013)

For Officer Scale- III- Above 21 years - Below 40 years i.e. candidates should not have been born  earlier than 03.07.1973 and  later than 30.06.1992 (both datesinclusive)

For Officer Scale- II- Above 21 years - Below 32 years i.e. candidates should not have been born  earlier than 03.07.1981 and  later than 30.06.1992 (both datesinclusive)

For Officer Scale- I- Above 18 years - Below 28 years i.e. candidates should not have been born  earlier than 03.07.1985 and later than 30.06.1995 (both dates inclusive)

For Office Assistant (Multipurpose) - Between 18 years and 28 years i.e. candidates should have not been born earlier than 02.07.1985 and later than 01.07.1995 (bothdates inclusive)

The maximum age limit specified is applicable to General Category candidates.

NOTE:

(i) The relaxation in upper age limit to SC/ST/OBC candidates is allowed on cumulative basis with only one of the remaining categories for which age relaxation is permittedas mentioned above at Sr. Nos. 3 to 7 in the above Table.

            (ii) The maximum age limit specified is applicable to General Category candidates.

(iii) Candidates seeking age relaxation will be required to submit copies of necessary certificate(s) at the time of Interview conducted by a particular RRB, if called by theRRB.

Caste / Category Certificate issued by competent authority in the prescribed format as

stipulated by Government of India in case of SC / ST / OBC/ PWD category candidates.

In case of candidates belonging to OBC category, 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. Caste Name mentioned in certificate should tally letter by letter withCentral Government list / notification.

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 onlineapplication form.

(iv) 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 for Ex-Servicemen in Central Government jobs.

(v) An ex-Servicemen 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.

(vi) 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-employmentone 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 Definition of Persons 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 Govt.

Accordingly, candidates with the following disabilities are eligible to apply. Candidates claiming such benefits should produce certificate in original in support of their claim at the time of Interview. Persons With Disabilities will have to work in Branches/ Offices as

identified by the respective RRB.

Visually Impaired (VI)

Blindness refers to condition where a person suffers from any of the following conditions namely (1) 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.

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

Deaf & Hearing Impaired (HI)

The deaf are those persons in whom the sense of hearing is non- functional for ordinary purposes of life i.e. total loss of hearing in both ears. They do not hear; understand sounds at all even with amplified speech. Hearing impairment means loss of sixty decibels or more in the better ear in the conversational range of frequencies.

Orthopaedically Challenged (OC)

Only those Orthopaedically Challenged candidates who have locomotor disability or cerebral palsy with locomotor impairment of minimum of 40% and only those who fall in thefollowing categories are eligible to apply:

BL - Both legs affected but not arms

OA - One arm affected (R or L) – (a) Impaired reach;

(b) weakness of grip;

(c) ataxia

OL - One leg affected (R and or L)

MW - Muscular weakness and limited physical endurance

Guidelines for Persons With Disabilities using a Scribe

The visually impaired candidates and candidates whose writing speed is affected by cerebral palsy can use their own scribe at their cost during the online examination. In all such caseswhere a scribe is used, the following rules will apply:

• The candidate will have to arrange his 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 forthe post.

• Both the candidate as well as scribe will have to give a suitable undertaking 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 standcancelled, irrespective of the result of the online examination.

• Those candidates who use a scribe shall be eligible for extra time of 20 minutes for every hour of the examination.

Guidelines for candidates

(i) with locomotor disability and cerebral palsy

An extra time of twenty minutes per hour 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), although no scribe shall be permitted to such candidates.

(ii)  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. This facility will not be available to Visually

Impaired candidates who use the services of a Scribe for the examination.

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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 & Administrative Reforms Notification No.36034/5/85 Estt. (SCT) dated 27.01.1986 as amended fromtime to time.

ii. Disabled Ex-Servicemen(DISXS): Ex-servicemen who while serving in Armed Forces of the union were disabled in operation against the enemy or indisturbed areas shall be treated as Disabled Ex-Servicemen (DISXS).

iii. Dependents of Servicemen Killed In Action (DXS): Servicemen killed in the following operations would be deemed to have been killed in actionattributable to military service (a) war (b) war like 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 orclearance 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.

The relaxation in upper age limit and in educational qualifications is not available to

Dependents of Servicemen killed in action.

Note: The Territorial Army Personnel will be treated as ex-servicemen w.e.f.

15.11.1986.

Important: - Govt. Guidelines regarding Definitions, relaxation etc. are subject to change from time to time.

C. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

I. EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE (as on 01-07-2013)

Post	Educational Qualification	Experience
OfficeAssistant (Multipurpose)	Degree in any  discipline from a recognized University or its equivalent (a) Essential: Proficiency in local language * (b)Desirable: Knowledge of Computer skills.	----
Officer Scale-I	i. Degree in any discipline from a recognized University or its equivalent Preference will be given to the candidates having degree inAgriculture, Horticulture, Forestry, Animal Husbandry, Veterinary Science, Agricultural Engineering, Pisciculture,Agricultural Marketing and Cooperation, Information Technology, Management, Law, Economics and Accountancy; ii.  Proficiency in local language * iii Computer knowledge or awareness will be an added qualification.	----

Officer Scale-II General BankingOfficer	Degree in any  discipline from a recognized University or its equivalent  with  a  minimum  of  50%  marks  in  aggregate. Preference will be given to the candidates having degree in Banking, Finance, Marketing, Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry, Animal Husbandry, Veterinary Science, Agricultural Engineering, Pisciculture, Agricultural Marketing and Cooperation, Information Technology, Management, Law,Economics and Accountancy.	Two years as an officer in a Bank or Financial Institution.
Officer Scale-II SpecialistOfficers	Information Technology Officer Degree from a recognised University in Electronics /Communication / Computer Science / Information Technologyor its equivalent with a minimum of 50% marks in aggregate.Desirable: Certificate in ASP, PHP, C++, Java, VB, VC, OCP etc.	One year
	Chartered Accountant Certified  Associateship  (CA)  from  Institute  of  Chartered Accountants of India	One Year
	Law Officer Degree from a recognised University in Law or itsequivalent with a minimum of 50% marks in aggregate.	Two years as an advocate or should have worked as Law Officer in Banks or FinancialInstitutions for a period not less than two years
	Treasury Manager Certified  Associateship  (CA)  from  Institute  of  Chartered

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