Now, you must be wondering why I am telling you all this when you want to know about the NABARD Grade A & B Exams.
Don’t worry. You’ll know as I connect the dots, soon enough.
Anyway, while I was making a booking for the Leh trip, I got to know that they had very few seats, and that they usually got filled very fast. Needless to say, it was really difficult to buy a slot, but thankfully I had gotten through.
Securing the booking ticket was pretty much like securing a qualifying rank in the NABARD Grade A and Grade B exams.
The annual NABARD Grade A & B exams are tough and competition, cut throat. For example, in the 2021 NABARD Grade A exam, there were around 70000 students who had applied against a vacancy of just 69 seats in the RDBS general stream.
Anyway, the NABARD Grade A 2022 official notification is out, while the Grade B notification is still obscure. To get an idea about the number of vacancies released in the NABARD Grade A notifications, you can read this blog.
Apart from the vacancies, in this blog, I have also mentioned in detail the steps to Apply online for the exams, the NABARD Exam Apply dates, the last date to apply online for NABARD, the Application Fee, the admit card, interview call letters, and the exam centers for the exams.
That said, before you go about applying for the NABARD Grade A & Grade B 2022 exams, you should thoroughly go through the NABARD eligibility criteria that I have written about in this blog, for both exams.
Oh, and I shall also be getting back to my Leh story soon, just keep reading along.
NABARD Grade A 2022 Notification
Following the newspaper edition of the NABARD Grade A 2022 Notification, which was released on July 12th 2022, the detailed notification came out on July 18, 2022, on the official website of NABARD.
This time a total of 170 vacancies have been showcased, out of which 161 are for Rural Development Banking Service (RDBS) i.e., for general stream. 7 vacancies are kept for Rajbhasha Service and 2 for Protocol and Security Service.
The online application for the vacancies will start from July 18th 2022 and will close on August 7th 2022.
You can access the NABARD Grade A 2022 Official Notification directly from here.
NABARD Grade A & B 2022 Application Fee
To complete the online application process, candidates need to pay the required application fee. This fee can be paid through debit/credit card or you can also use net banking.
The total application fee for SC/ST/PWBD is Rs. 150 for both NABARD Grade A & Grade B exams. While the application fee for all other categories is Rs. 800 for NABARD Grade A and Rs. 900 for NABARD Grade B.
The breakup of the total application fees for Grade A & Grade B are provided in the tables below:
| NABARD Grade A Application Fees | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Category of Applicant | Application Fee | Intimation Charges etc. | Total |
| For SC/ ST/ PWBD | 0 (NIL) | 150 | 150* |
| For all others | 650 | 150 | 800* |
| Staff @ | @ | @ | @ |
| NABARD Grade B Application Fees | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Category of Applicant | Application Fee | Intimation Charges etc. | Total |
| For SC/ ST/ PWBD | 0 (NIL) | 150 | 150* |
| For all others | 750 | 150 | 900* |
| Staff | @ | @ | @ |
* Exclusive of applicable GST
@ All NABARD employees satisfying the educational qualification criteria would be eligible to apply. They will be required to pay Rs. 150 fee/intimation charges at the time of online application, which will be reimbursed, only to those employees of NABARD (Staff Candidates) who satisfy the eligibility criteria for the post, on submission of fee receipt. The status as a staff candidate will be verified at the time of the interview.
In case candidates are not eligible to be treated as staff candidates, they are advised to indicate themselves as non-staff candidates and pay fees/intimation charges as applicable to non-staff candidates.
NABARD Grade A 2022 Vacancies
NABARD has released the list of vacancies associated with NABARD Grade A 2022 recruitment cycle.
In the official notification PDF, which came out on July 18, 2022, a total of 170 vacancies for the NABARD Grade A 2022 recruitment have been announced.
You will be shocked to see how organized NABARD is in terms of listing vacancies. I will provide you a category-wise breakdown of the vacancies highlighted in the detailed notification.
| POST / DISCIPLINE | UR | SC | ST | OBC | EWS | TOTAL | PWBD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | AM (RDBS) | |||||||
| (i) | General | 33 | 12 | 6 | 21 | 8 | 80 | 7@ |
| (ii) | Agriculture Engineering | 1 | – | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
| (iii) | Fisheries | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | |
| (iv) | Forestry | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | |
| (v) | Land Development/Soil Science | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 3 | |
| (vi) | Plantation/Horiculture | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 2 | |
| (vii) | Civil Engineering | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| (viii) | Environmental Engg/Science | 1 | 1 | – | 2# | – | 4 | |
| (ix) | Finance | 11 | 5 | – | 11 | 3 | 30 | |
| (x) | Computer/Information Technology | 10 | 4 | – | 9 | 2 | 25 | |
| (xi) | Agri Marketing/Agri Business Management | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 2 | |
| (xii) | Development Management | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 3 | |
| Assitant Manager (RDBS) – Total | 63 | 26 | 8 | 47 | 17 | 161 | ||
| II | AM (Rajbjasha) | 4 | 1 | 1# | 1 | – | 7 | 1$ |
Note: Out of 161 vacancies of Asst. Manager (RDBS) and 07 Asst. Manager (Rajbhasha), 08 vacancies are reserved for PWBD candidates under RPWD Act 2016.
@ PWBD – Cat(a)- 2 (includes 01 backlog), Cat(b)-1, Cat(c)-1, Cat (d & e) –3 (includes 02 backlog)
# Includes 01 Backlog vacancy
$ 01 LD Backlog vacancy
NABARD Grade B 2022 Vacancies
Vacancies of NABARD Grade B 2022 may release soon.
The last time NABARD conducted Grade B Exam was in the year 2021, NABARD released 7 vacancies. There was no Grade B Exam in the year 2020.
To know more about the NABARD Grade B Vacancies in detail you can check the table given below.
| No. | Post | Number of Vacancies | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manager (RDBS) | UR | SC | ST | OBC | EWS | PWBD | Total | |
| a) | General | 3 | 1 | – | 2 | 1 | 1@ | 7 |
Now that you know about the NABARD notifications and the vacancies, let me pick up where I had left off on my Leh story.
So, as you know that I was finally able to buy a slot for the Leh trip, even though with great difficulty.
However, after I had finally gotten the slot on time, I came to know that I was not eligible to go for the biking trip unless I had a Royal Enfield bullet, and what I had with me unfortunately a Bajaj Avenger.
Thus, I rented a Royal Enfield for the trip, but by the time I had received it, the Royal Enfield group had already left, so I had to give back the Royal Enfield and tag along with a local group on a bus, like the normal folks. It was heartbreaking then, but now when I look back, I see how fun that trip was.
Anyway, this is the reason why I ask all my students to go through the eligibility criteria before going through vacancies. Not doing so might cause you to have a heartbreak later, like the one I had, as I have mentioned above.
I have seen students who start preparing for the exam and later find out that they are not eligible for the exam. Pretty much similar to me having booked the slot to Leh, only to realize that only Royal Enfield bikes were allowed for the same.
That said I have mentioned the NABARD Grade A education qualifications, age relaxations, and everything related to it below after the Appy online Section.
NABARD Grade A and B 2022 Apply Online
The application form of NABARD Grade A & B exam gets released as soon as the notifications comes out.
Such is the case with NABARD Grade A 2022 notification as well. With the release of the official notification, on July 18, 2022 the application process commenced.
The NABARD Grade A 2022 Apply Online link has been activated on July 18th and the last date to apply online is 7th August 2022.
Digging deep in the topic of NABARD Grade A & B Apply Online 2022, it should be known that it’s a fairly simple process of registering for the NABARD Grade A or/and Grade B exams online.
However, even after being so simple, candidates still make a lot of mistakes while applying for the exams.
So, you should make sure to take extra care while filling out the NABARD Grade A and/or Grade B online application forms.
Furthermore, a lot of students miss out on the notifications and the last date to apply for NABARD Grade A & B exam. This leads to confusions and hassles among students.
Therefore, if you are aiming to take the NABARD Grade A & B exam, make sure to take note of the release date of the notification, because the notification release dates usually mark the start of the online registration process, and this application process goes on for the next 20 days or so.
Anyway, in the table below I have mentioned the Apply Online Dates for NABARD Grade A 2022 Exam as the application dates are out. This will give you a better idea about the duration of the application process. This would also help you to understand the duration between the start date and the last date to apply online for the exam.
| NABARD Grade A Exam Events | 2022 Dates |
|---|---|
| NABARD Grade A Newspaper Notification | 12th July 2022 |
| NABARD Grade A Official Notification | 18th July 2022 |
| Application Process Start Date | 18th July 2022 |
| Last Date to Apply Online | 8th August 2022 |
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