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At a glance
The facts most likely to change your decision.
- Vacancies
- Not announced Vacancies will be added only after an official notice publishes them. The previous cycle (Advertisement No. 05/Grade A/2025-26) advertised 91 posts — 85 Assistant Manager (RDBS), 2 Legal and 4 Protocol & Security.
- Education
- Graduate · Postgraduate In the previous cycle (Advt. No. 05/Grade A/2025-26), Assistant Manager (RDBS) — General required a Bachelor's degree in any subject with at least 60% marks (55% for SC/ST/PwBD), or a postgraduate degree/MBA/PGDM with 55% (50%), or CA/CS/CMA/ICWA, or a PhD. Specialist RDBS disciplines, the Legal post and the Protocol & Security post each carried their own qualification and experience conditions.
- Age
- 21–30 years as on 1 Nov 2025 for RDBS and Legal in the previous cycle (Advt. No. 05/Grade A/2025-26); Protocol & Security Service was 25–40 years with no relaxation for any category. The next cycle's notice will fix its own cut-off date. Relaxations and cut-off dates are category-specific.
- Application fee
- ₹700 application fee plus ₹150 intimation charges (₹850 in all, exclusive of GST) for all others and ₹150 intimation charges only for SC/ST/PwBD in the previous cycle (Advt. No. 05/Grade A/2025-26); the next cycle's fee is not published yet. Use the official payment instructions only.
- Pay
- Officers in Grade 'A' drew a starting basic pay of ₹44,500 per month in the scale ₹44500-2500(4)-54500-2850(7)-74450-EB-2850(4)-85850-3300(1)-89150, with initial gross emoluments of about ₹1,00,000, in the previous cycle's advertisement; the next cycle will state the applicable scale. Gross and in-hand pay vary by posting and allowance.
- Recruitment cycle
- Next cycle Central · All India
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Vacancies & reservation
What is known, what overlaps and what remains unreported.
Current published countNot announced
Check source ↗Category table not available here
Check the latest official notice for the post- and category-wise distribution.
How to read reservation: UR, EWS, OBC, SC and ST are vertical categories. PwBD, women, ex-servicemen and similar horizontal reservations can overlap them and must not be added again to the total.
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Complete timeline
One record from notification to final outcome.
No current-cycle dates announced
This timeline will be dated only after the recruiting body publishes a schedule.
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Who can apply?
A readable first check—not a legal eligibility decision.
Basic eligibility paths
- Under the previous cycle's advertisement (Advt. No. 05/Grade A/2025-26), a candidate may apply for only one post or discipline, and the last valid application is the one retained.
- Assistant Manager (RDBS) — General needed a Bachelor's degree with 60% marks (55% for SC/ST/PwBD), or a PG degree/MBA/PGDM with 55% (50%), or CA/CS/CMA/ICWA, or a PhD; the qualification had to be complete with results declared by the cut-off date.
- The Protocol & Security Service post is reserved for ex-Commissioned Officers of the Armed Forces with at least ten years' service (five for PwBD candidates) holding a valid Ex-Serviceman Identity Card.
- Confirm education, age, nationality and category rules in the official current-cycle notice when it is published.
Relaxations & certificates
- SC/ST, OBC-NCL, PwBD and ex-servicemen relaxations follow the applicable notification.
- Always check the certificate format and cut-off date in the official notice.
If your degree title, age, domicile or category certificate is unusual, mark yourself “check required” and read the official wording.
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Selection process & syllabus
Stage by stage, without mixing recruitment years.
Selection stages
- 1Phase-I preliminary online examination (objective)
- 2Phase-II main examination (objective and descriptive)
- 3Phase-III psychometric test
- 4Phase-IV personal interview
- 5Protocol & Security Service runs a shorter three-phase process — objective examination, psychometric test and interview — per Advt. No. 05/Grade A/2025-26
Syllabus snapshot
- The previous cycle's preliminary paper carried 200 marks over a composite 120 minutes across Reasoning, English Language, Computer Knowledge, Quantitative Aptitude, Decision Making, General Awareness, Economic & Social Issues (with focus on rural India) and Agriculture & Rural Development.
- Reasoning, English Language, Computer Knowledge, Quantitative Aptitude and Decision Making were qualifying only; shortlisting for the mains used the merit sections alone.
- Use only the official current-cycle syllabus when it is published.
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Application document checklist
Prepare before the portal gets busy.
Recent passport-size photograph and scanned signature
Government photo ID with the same name used in the application
Education certificates and marksheets
Category, EWS, PwBD or ex-serviceman certificate, if claimed
Domicile or language proof where the notification requires it
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Official links & source record
Go straight to the recruiting body.
noticeNABARD career noticesnoticePrevious cycle advertisement (Advt. No. 05/Grade A/2025-26)websiteNABARD fake-recruitment warning
- Primary source
- NABARD career notices page and the Grade A 2025-26 advertisement
- Published / changed
- Career notices checked 4 Aug 2026; previous-cycle advertisement dated 7 Nov 2025
- Last checked
- 4 Aug 2026, 18:30 IST
Official notices, corrigenda and recruiting-body pages have final authority. This page is a reading aid.