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RBI Grade B Officer Prelims - A Must Know About Salient Feature, Responsibilities And Career Prospect

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RBI Grade B Officer Prelims - A Must Know About Salient Feature, Responsibilities And Career Prospect
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The Reserve Bank of India is the central bank for the country. It conducts RBI Grade B Examination every year for recruitment of candidates for its sub-offices and branches in the country. The exam is conducted for the direct recruitment of Grade B Officers in Combined Seniority Group (CSG) streams. RBI Grade B exam is a very popular exam for those seeking a career in the finance sector. As the organisation offers an excellent pay scale and job profile, a large number of candidates appear in the exam.


CAREER PROSPECT

RBI Grade B officers are one of the most esteemed job profiles for those who want to work in the banking sector of India. It generally attracts the people towards it due to the high amount of fame and honor associated with it.RBI Grade B officers start their career with the post of RBI Assistant or Support Staff. The candidates who are selected for the post of RBI assistant undergo a special training period called the Probationary Period. After the selection of the candidate under RBI Grade B recruitment, he or she will be on a probation period of at least 2 years which will include a training period of 15 weeks. The job profile is somewhat similar to a desk job, but it’s not limited to just that.

There may come times when the officer has to communicate with the State and Central government departments as well as various RBI regional offices.


RBI Grade B Responsibilities:

1. Issuing currency: All the notes and coins except Rs. 1 is issued by the RBI. Thus, the Grade B employees function in the circulation and smooth transaction of these currencies to and within the commercial banks registered under the Reserve Bank of India.

2. Financial stability: It is one of the great duties of the RBI Grade B officers to ensure financial stability in the market carefully looking through the factors leading to inflation and deflation.

3. Awareness: These Grade B employees are responsible for making the general public of the country aware of all the new measures and technologies introduced by the RBI to benefit the fiscal transaction of the public.

4. Government adviser: They tend to extend support to the government of India in case of any financial assistance. Government works on the financial advice provided by the officers of the RBI.

The Promotion Prospects for RBI Grade B officers will be as follows:

1. Assistant Manager
2. Manager
3. Assistant General Manager
4. Deputy General Manager
5. General Manager
6. Chief General Manager
7. Principal Chief General Manager
8. Executive Director
9. Deputy Governor
10. Governor


RBI GRADE B OFFICER PRELIMS EXAM SALIENT FEATURE

ParticularsDetails
Exam nameRBI Grade B 
Conducting BodyReserve Bank of India (RBI)
Exam levelNational level
Exam frequencyOnce a year 
Mode of the examinationOnline
Exam StagesPrelims, Mains and Interview
Exam fess

INR 850 for the General / OBC

INR 100 for the SC/ ST/ PWD/ XS candidates

Exam Duration

Grade B (DR) for General

Phase I: 120 minutes (with sectional timings)

Phase II

Paper-I & III: 120 minutes

Paper-II: 90 minutes

DEPR/DSIM post:

Paper 1: 120 minutes

Paper 2: 180 minutes

Paper 3: 90 minutes

Total questions

Grade B (DR) for General

Phase I: 200

Phase II

Paper I & III: 30 objective-type questions and six descriptive type questions

Paper-II: Three questions

Grade B (DR) for DEPR & DSIM

Paper I for DEPR: 62 

Paper I for DSIM: 20

Paper II & III: 

Economics/Statistics: 5

English (Writing Skills): 3

Marking scheme1/4 marks are deducted for wrong answers in objective type questions
Language/MediumEnglish and Hindi 
Official websiterbi.org.in


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