Finance Ministry announces major overhaul in IBPS recruitment for SBI, nationalised banks, RRBs: What’s changed

At present, RRB examinations are conducted first, followed by nationalised banks and then SBI, with results also declared in the same sequence.

According to the statement, this existing pattern has contributed to high levels of attrition. Many candidates who join RRBs later move to nationalised banks, and then to SBI when those results are announced. Banks have flagged operational difficulties arising from this movement, prompting the DFS to reassess the entire recruitment cycle and its sequencing.

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Following this review, the government has advised the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) to adopt a uniform and logically structured sequence for releasing results. Under the revised framework, recruitment outcomes will now be announced first for SBI, then for nationalised banks and finally for RRBs. The same order will apply within each category, where officer-level results will be declared before clerical-level results.

The ministry noted that this restructuring is meant to help candidates make clearer and quicker choices about their preferred postings. By ensuring that results are issued in a predictable order, the system is expected to reduce the tendency of candidates to shift between institutions, thereby lowering attrition across banks. It is also aimed at improving workforce planning by giving institutions a more stable picture of their incoming personnel.