APPLICATION FEE (NON-REFUNDABLE)

Category of Applicant Application Fee

SC/ST/ PWD Rs. 100/- + Applicable Taxes + Payment Gateway

charges

General, EWS & OBC Rs. 200/- + Applicable Taxes + Payment Gateway

charges

Bank Transaction charges for Online Payment of application fees/intimation charges will

have to be borne by the candidate.

.3 RELAXATION IN UPPER AGE LIMIT (in case of candidates belonging to following

categories)

Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribe Other Backward Classes(Non-creamy layer) Persons With Benchmark Disabilities as defined under

“The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act,2016”

Widows, divorced women and women legally

separated from their husbands who have not remarried

No. of years of relaxation

5 years

3 years

10 years

Persons affected by 1984 riots Age concession up to the

age of 35 years for

General/EWS, 38 years for

OBC and 40 years for

SC/ST candidates

5 years

Note:

SI.No. Category i) ii) iii) iv) v) a. 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 permitted as

mentioned above in Point No. 2.3(iii) to 2.3(v).

b. Candidates claiming relaxation under 2.3 (I to iii) should enclose necessary certificate as

documentary proof.

3. RESERVATIONS:

Reservation for SC/ST/OBS/EWS candidates will be provided as per government guidelines.

Candidates belonging to and applying under “reserved SC/ST/OBC category” or claiming

reservation under EWS are required to submit a certificate regarding his/her ‘Community’ OR

EWS status in the prescribed format “ FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE PRODUCED BY OTHER

BACKWARD CLASSES AND ECONOMICALLY WEAKER SECTION APPLICANTS APPLYING

FOR APPOINTMENT TO POSTS UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA”, SC/ST and the OBC

certificate should contain the “Non-creamy Layer Clause” which is not more than one year old

and EWS certificate issued for the financial year prior to the

year of application. Candidates who fail to produce the above certificate will not be considered

under the OBC category or EWS whichever is applicable.

The competent authority for the issue of the certificate to SC/ST/OBC/EWS/ Persons with

Benchmark Disbilities (PwBD) is as under:

For SC/ST/OBC/EWS: (i) District Magistrate/ Additional District Magistrate/ Collector/ Deputy

Commissioner/ Additional Deputy Commissioner/ Deputy Collector/ First Class Stipendiary

Magistrate/ City Magistrate/ Sub-Divisional Magistrate (not below the rank of First Class

Stipendiary Magistrate/ Taluk Magistrate/ Executive magistrate/ Extra Assistant Commissioner

(ii) Chief Presidency Magistrate / Additional Chief Presidency Magistrate/ Presidency Magistrate

4. Engagement of Apprentices in the Bank

(iii) Revenue Officer not below the rank of Tehsildar (iv) Sub-divisional officer of the area where

the candidate and or his family normally resides.

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. Visually Impairment (VI) category includes Blindness and low vision;

b. Hearing Impaired (HI) category includes Deaf and Hard of hearing;

c. Orthopedically Challenged (OC) includes Locomotor Disability (One arm-OA, One Leg-OL,

Both Leg-BL, One Arm and One Leg – OAL), cerebral palsy, leprosy cured, dwarfism, acid attack

victims and muscular dystrophy;

d. Intellectual Disability (ID) category includes intellectual disability (Autism Spectrum Disorder,

specific learning disability and mental illness);

e. Multiple Disabilities (MD) means disability amongst 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” and authorized certifying authority will be the Medical Board of

the District level consisting of Chief Medical Officer, Sub-Divisional Medical Officer in the District

and an Orthopedic/ Ophthalmic/ ENT Surgeon or any person designated as certifying authority by

appropriate government.

Only those persons with ‘Permanent Benchmark Disability’ would be eligible for reservation.

‘Benchmark Disability’ means a person with not less than 40% of a specified disability where

specified disability has not been defined in measurable terms and includes the persons with

disability, where disability has been defined in a measureable term, as certified by the certifying

authority.

Candidates belonging to SC, ST, OBC, EWS, PwBD categories have to submit certificates in

support of it at the time of document verification.