Syndicate Bank Recruitment 2010 Eligibility

1. Eligibility Criteria: Nationality/ Citizenship:

A candidate must be either:

1. a Citizen of India or
2. a subject of Nepal or
3. 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.

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 issued by the Government of India. A candidate in whose case a certificate of eligibility is necessary may be admitted to the interview conducted by the Bank but on final selection the offer of appointment may be given only after the Government of India has issued the necessary eligibility certificate to him/her.

2. Relaxation in Upper Age Limit: (In case of candidates belonging to the following categories)

Note:

a) An Ex-Serviceman who has once joined a government job on the civil side after availing of the benefits given to him as an ex-serviceman for his re-employment, his ex-serviceman status for the purpose of re-employment in Government ceases.

b) In the case of a candidate who is eligible for relaxation under more than one of the above categories, the age relaxation will be available on cumulative basis with any one of the remaining categories for which age relaxation is permitted as mentioned above. This cumulative age relaxation is available to SC/ST/OBC candidates only.

c) Candidates claiming relaxation under 3 (i to iii) should enclose necessary certificate as documentary proof.

d) The candidates eligible for age relaxation under 3 (iv) above must produce the Domicile Certificate at the time of interview from the District Magistrate in the Kashmir Division within whose jurisdiction he/she had ordinarily resided or any other authority designated in this regard by Govt. of J & K to the effect that the candidate had ordinarily been domiciled in the Kashmir Division of the State of J & K during 1stJan. 1980 and the 31st day of December 1989.

e) The Children/Family members of those who died in the 1984 riots will be given due consideration.

3. Reservations:

A. Reservation for SC/ST/OBC/PH/XS candidates will be provided as per Government guidelines.

B. Persons with Disabilities:

Reservation is available to Persons with Disabilities under Sec. 33 of Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995. Accordingly, candidates with the following disabilities are eligible to apply for the posts reserved/identified for them.

Blindness or low vision-

a) "Blindness" refers to a condition where a Person suffers from any of the following conditions:

1. Total absence of sight
2. Visual acuity not exceeding 6/60 or 20/200 (Snellen) in the better eye with correcting lenses
3. Limitation of the field of vision subtending an angle of 20 degree or worse.

b) "Persons with 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 or execution of a task with appropriate assistive device.

"Persons with Hearing Impairment": means loss of 60 decibels or more in the better ear in the conversational range of frequencies.

"Locomotor Disability" means disability of the bones, joints or muscles leading to substantial restriction of the movement of the limbs or any form of cerebral palsy.

"Cerebral Palsy" means a group of non progressive conditions of a person characterised by abnormal motor control posture resulting from brain insult or injuries occurring in the pre-natal, peri-natal or infant period of development.

All the cases of orthopaedically handicapped persons would be covered under the Category of "Locomotor Disability or Cerebral Palsy".

Only such persons would be eligible for reservation in services/posts who suffer from not less than 40% of the relevant disability.

A disability certificate issued by a Medical Board at the District level consisting of Chief Medical Officer, Sub-Divisional Medical Officer in the District and a member who is a specialist in Orthopaedics, ENT or Ophthalmology, as the case may be, shall be produced.

c)There is no reservation for Ex-servicemen candidates in the Officer cadre.

As the reservation for Persons with Disabilities and Ex-servicemen candidates is on horizontal basis, the selected candidates will be placed in the appropriate category (viz. SC/ST/OBC/ GEN) to which they belong.

Use of a Scribe / Paper Writer :

A SCRIBE, to write the written test / examination, on behalf of a Visually Challenged (VC) candidate [Blind] & Orthopedically Challenged (OC) candidate [whose writing speed is affected by Cerebral Palsy], may be used. In all such cases where a Scribe is used, the following rules will apply:

1. The candidate will have to arrange his/her own Scribe at his/her own cost.
2. The scribe should be from an academic discipline different from that of the candidate and should possess less marks than the candidate but in no case more than 60%.
3. Both the candidate as well as the Scribe will have to give a suitable undertaking confirming that the Scribe fulfils all the stipulated eligibility criteria as mentioned above. In case it later transpires that the scribe did not fulfill any of the laid down eligibility criteria or had suppressed material facts, the candidature of the applicant will stand cancelled, irrespective of the result of the written examination.

Candidate using a Scribe will be eligible for extra time @ 20 minutes for every hour of the examination. Such candidates should visit our Regional / contact Office as given in para 10 and get the name of scribe authorized by them one week before the test.

Syndicate Bank Recruitment 2010 Eligibility