(Eligibility) NABARD Grade ‘B’ (RDBS) Officers

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

a) Educational Qualification (as on 01.06.2017)

A candidate can apply for Manager (RDBS) under only one option from among the options given at Table-I (a) & (b). It is clarified that candidate applying for Manager (RDBS)-General cannot apply for Manager (RDBS)-Agriculture and vice a versa.
In case of applications for both the posts, the last application submitted will be considered valid and fee against the other application will be forfeited.

PWD candidates applying against Unreserved posts will not be eligible for relaxation in percentage in Educational Qualification. They may, however, be eligible for relaxation in Age and Fee.

(a) Manager (RDBS) - General

Bachelor’s Degree in any subject from any recognized University with a minimum of 60% marks (SC/ST/PWD applicants 55%) in aggregate or Post Graduate degree with a minimum of 55% marks (SC/ST/PWD applicants 50%) in aggregate from a recognized university.

b) Manager (RDBS) - Agriculture

Bachelor’s Degree in Agriculture with 60% marks (SC/ST applicants 55%) in aggregate or Post Graduate degree in Agriculture with a minimum of 55% marks (SC/ST applicants 50%) in aggregate or its equivalent grade from a recognized university.

NOTE: All educational qualifications should have been obtained from Universities / Institutions incorporated by an Act of Central or State legislature in India or other educational institutions established by an Act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as a University under Section – 3 of UGC Act 1956 or possess an equivalent qualification

i) Percentage of marks for the purpose of Educational Qualification will be with reference to the total marks obtained by the applicant in all the papers of the examination(s) that are considered for award of the graduation / postgraduate or other equivalent degree, as the case may be, by the concerned University.
Some Universities/Institutes do not award Class or percentage of marks and allot Aggregate Grade Points (e.g. CGPA/OGPA/CPI, etc.). In case University/Institute defines criteria for conversion of Aggregate Grade Point into Class and/or percentage of marks, the same will be accepted. However, where the University/Institute does not define criteria for conversion of Aggregate Grade Point into Class and/or percentage of marks, the undefined parameter(s) would be worked out as under :

ii) Aggregate Grade Point or percentage of marks whereever awarded would mean aggregate over the entire duration of the course.
iii) Where the Aggregate Grade Point (CGPA/OGPA/CPI, etc.) is awarded out of a

number other than 10, it will be normalized out of 10 and computed as per item (i) above.

b. Age (as on 01.06.2017)

The candidate must have attained the age of 21yrs and must not have attained the age of 35 years as on 01.06.2017, i.e., the candidate must have been born not earlier than 02.06.1982 and not later than 01.06.1996).

Relaxation in Upper Age Limit: Upper age limit may be relaxed by -

03 years in case of eligible OBC applicants,
05 years in case of following applicants:

a. Applicants belonging to SC/ST,

b. Ex-servicemen (including Emergency Commissioned Officers/Short Service Commissioned Officers) provided that the applicants have rendered at least five years continuous Military Service and have been released on completion of assignment (including those whose assignment is due to be completed within one year) otherwise than by way of dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency or on account of physical disability or have been released on account of physical disability attributable to Military Service or on invalidation

c. Emergency Commissioned Officers/Short Service Commissioned Officers who have completed their initial period of assignment of five years of Military Service but whose assignment has been extended beyond five years and in whose case, on selection, the Ministry of Defence issues certificates that they would be released within 03 months from the date of receipt of offer of appointment,

d. Applicants who had ordinarily been domiciled in Kashmir Division of the State of Jammu and Kashmir during the period 01 January 1980 to 31 December 1989

e. Children/family members of victims died in the 1984 riots.

Maximum Age relaxation permissible: 10 years for PWD (General); 13 years for PWD (OBC) and 15 years for PWD (SC/ST) applicants.

NOTE: NO CUMULATIVE AGE RELAXATION WILL BE AVAILABLE TO ANY APPLICANT, SAVE AS PROVIDED ABOVE.

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