RBI Grade B Officer Prelims - Comprehensive Detail About Eligibility

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RBI Grade B Officer Prelims - Comprehensive Detail About Eligibility

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Posted On : 30th May, 2023

Description

To be eligible to apply for the RBI GRADE B Examination, candidates must meet certain eligibility requirements. Candidates who do not meet the eligibility criteria, such as age, minimum educational qualification, and so on, will have their candidature rejected by the authorities.The following conditions must be met for a candidate to be eligible for the RBI GRADE B Examination:

1. Nationality
2. Age Limit & Relaxations
3. Educational Qualifications

RBI GRADE B EXAMINATION: NATIONALITY

A candidate must be either -

1. A Citizen of India or
2. A subject of Nepal or
3. A subject of Bhutan or
4. A Tibetan Refugee who came over to India before 1st January 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India or
5. 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, shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by the Government of India.

RBI GRADE B EXAMINATION: AGE LIMIT

A candidate must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 30 years.

Note :- For candidates possessing M.Phil. and Ph.D. qualification, upper age limit will be 32 and 34 years respectively.

Relaxations of Upper age limit

Category	Age Relaxation
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe (SC / ST)	By 5 years, i.e. up to 35 years
Other Backward Classes (OBC)	By 3 years, i.e. up to 33 years
Persons with Disabilities (PWD)	By 10 years, i.e. up to 40 years
PH + OBC	13 years
PH + SC/ST	15 years
Ex-Servicemen	5 years

RBI GRADE B EXAMINATION: EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Candidates must have at least minimum education qualifications, as indicated in the table below from a recognized university board -

Educational Qualification
Officers in Grade ‘B’ (DR) – (General)	Graduation in any discipline /Equivalent technical or professional qualification with minimum 60% marks (50% for SC/ST/PwBD applicants) or Post-Graduation / Equivalent technical qualification with minimum 55% marks (pass marks for SC/ST/PwBD applicants) in aggregate of all semesters/years
Officers in Grade ‘B’ (DR) – DEPR	A Master’s Degree in Economics / Econometrics / Quantitative Economics / Mathematical Economics / Integrated Economics Course/ Finance, with a minimum of 55% marks or an equivalent grade in aggregate of all semesters /years from a recognised Indian or Foreign University /Institute; OR PGDM/ MBA Finance with a minimum of 55% marks or an equivalent grade in aggregate of all semesters /years from a recognised Indian or Foreign University /Institute; OR Master’s Degree in Economics in any of the sub-categories of economics i.e. agricultural/ business/ developmental/ applied, etc., with a minimum of 55% marks or an equivalent grade in aggregate of all semesters /years from a recognised Indian or Foreign University /Institute.
Officers in Grade ‘B’ (DR) – DSIM	A Master’s Degree in Statistics/ Mathematical Statistics/ Mathematical Economics/ Econometrics/ Statistics & Informatics from IIT-Kharagpur/ Applied Statistics & Informatics from IIT-Bombay with a minimum of 55% marks or equivalent grade in aggregate of all semesters/years; OR Master’s Degree in Mathematics with a minimum of 55% marks or an equivalent grade in aggregate of all semesters/years and a one-year postgraduate diploma in Statistics or related subjects from an institute of repute; OR M. Stat. degree of Indian Statistical Institute with a minimum of 55% marks in aggregate of all semesters/years OR Post Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics (PGDBA) jointly offered by ISI Kolkata, IIT Kharagpur and IIM Calcutta with a minimum of 55% marks or equivalent grade in aggregate of all semesters/years.