RBI Grade B Recruitment 2026: 60 Officer Vacancies | Apply by 20 May

Post-Wise Vacancy Breakup (Total 60 Posts)

Eligibility Criteria – RBI Grade B 2026

Candidates must fulfill the educational criteria as of April 01, 2026. (Marks relaxation available for SC/ST/PwBD).

RBI Grade B Selection Process & Exam Pattern 2026

1. Officers in Grade 'B' (DR) – General Cadre

2. Officers in Grade 'B' (DR) – DEPR Cadre

3. Officers in Grade 'B' (DR) – DSIM Cadre

RBI Grade B Officer Recruitment 2026 - Exam Syllabus

• Phase-I – General Cadre (200 Marks, Objective MCQ, 120 Minutes):
  The paper covers General Awareness, English Language, Quantitative Aptitude, and Reasoning. Separate time will be allotted for each section. Detailed information will be provided in the Information Handout available with the Admit Card.

• Phase-II – General Cadre:
  • Paper-I (Economic and Social Issues): Growth and Development (National Income, poverty alleviation, sustainable development); Indian Economy (economic history, monetary and fiscal policy since 1991, Indian money and financial markets, public finance, agriculture, services sector); Globalization (BoP, export-import policy, IMF, World Bank, WTO); Social Structure in India (multiculturalism, demographic trends, urbanization, gender issues, social justice).
  • Paper-II (English – Writing Skills): Writing skills including expression and understanding of the topic.
  • Paper-III (General Finance and Management): Financial system (structure of financial institutions, RBI functions, banking system, digital payments); Financial markets (primary and secondary markets); General topics (financial risk management, derivatives, financial inclusion, corporate governance, Union Budget, accounting basics, inflation); Management (fundamentals, organizational behaviour, motivation, leadership, ethics, corporate governance, communication).

• Phase-I – DEPR Cadre (Paper-I, Objective – Economics):
  Microeconomics, Macroeconomics (IS-LM Model, schools of economic thought), International Economics, Theories of Economic Growth and Development, Public Finance, Environmental Economics, Quantitative Methods in Economics, Current developments in Indian Economy.

• Phase-II – DEPR Cadre (Descriptive – Economics):
  • Paper-I covers Microeconomics Module (consumer theory, production theory, market theory, welfare economics) and Macroeconomics Module (national income accounting, employment and output, inflation, money and banking, growth theories, international trade, public finance) with equal weightage.
  • Paper-II covers Quantitative Methods in Economics (mathematical methods, statistical methods, econometrics) and Indian Economy – Policy and Trends (fiscal policy, monetary policy, banking sector, inflation, external sector, sectoral developments) with equal weightage.

• Phase-I & II – DSIM Cadre (Statistics Objective & Descriptive):
  Topics covered across both papers: Theory of Probability, Probability Distributions and Sampling Theory; Linear Models and Economic Statistics; Statistical Inference (Estimation, Testing of Hypothesis, Non-Parametric Tests); Stochastic Processes; Multivariate Analysis; Econometrics and Time Series; Optimization and Statistical Computing; Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Techniques; Database and Data Warehouse Management.