● Recruitment of Officer Grade A (Assistant Manager) -
General Stream, Legal Stream, Information Technology Stream, Engineering Stream, Research
Stream and Official Language Stream 2020
● Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), is a statutory regulatory body established by an Act of
Parliament, to protect the interests of investors in securities, to promote the development of and to regulate
the securities market.
● SEBI invites applications from Indian citizens for the post of Officer Grade A (Assistant Manager) for
the General Stream, Legal Stream, Information Technology Stream, Engineering Stream, Research
Stream and Official Language Stream. SEBI reserves the right to fill up the posts or not to fill up the
posts at all.
Note 1: A Post Graduate Diploma in any discipline will be acceptable as educational requirement for General
stream and a Post Graduate Diploma in Statistics / Economics / Commerce / Business Administration (Finance)
/ Econometrics will be acceptable as educational requirement for Research Stream, provided the same is
recognized as equivalent to a Master’ Degree in that discipline by Govt. of India. The onus to provide necessary
document in this regard shall be on the candidates.
Note 2: Candidates are permitted to apply for maximum of 2 streams only for which he/she is eligible to apply,
as per their educational qualifications. Separate on-line application for each stream will have to be submitted
and requisite fees is to be paid for each application. In case a candidate applies more than once in a Single
Stream and/ or applies for more than 2 Streams, only the latest applications shall be considered valid and the
other applications shall be rejected. The officers recruited in any stream may be posted to any department of
SEBI, irrespective of their streams.
Candidates who have appeared for the final examinations and waiting for the results are eligible to appear for
the Phase I, Phase II and Phase III of selection process. However, the offer to join SEBI to the selected
candidates shall be subject to production of necessary documents evidencing successfully obtaining the
requisite qualification.
The date of passing eligibility examination will be the date appearing on the mark sheet or provisional certificate
issued by the University/ Institute. In case the result of a particular examination is posted on the website of the
University/ Institute, a certificate issued by the appropriate authority of the University/ Institute indicating the
date on which the result was posted on the website will be taken as the date of passing.
** Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD):
a. The specified disabilities are:
i. Blindness and Low Vision,
ii. Deaf and Hard of Hearing,
iii. Locomotor Disability including cerebral palsy, leprosy cured, dwarfism, acid attack victims and
muscular dystrophy,
iv. Autism, intellectual disability, specific learning disability and mental illness,
v. Multiple disabilities and
vi. Other disabilities (as per Rights of Persons With Disabilities Act, 2016)
b. The PwBD candidates may belong to any category (i.e. GEN/ SC/ ST/ OBC/ EWSs) and they will be
eligible for age relaxations. Reservation for PwBD is horizontal and within the overall vacancies for the
posts.
c. PwBD means a person with not less than forty per cent of a specified benchmark disability where
specified disability has not been defined in measurable terms and are eligible to apply in the GEN/ SC/
ST/ OBC/ EWSs category. They will be eligible for concession in application fee.
Age Limit (as on 29/02/2020):
a. A candidate must not have exceeded the age of 30 years as on February 29, 2020 i.e., candidate must
have been born on or after March 01, 1990.
b. The upper age-limit prescribed above will be relaxable:
i. up to a maximum of five years for candidates belonging to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe
if the posts are reserved for them;
ii. up to a maximum of three years in the case of candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes
who are eligible to avail of reservation applicable to such candidates if the posts are reserved for
them;
c. Only those candidates belonging to 'Non Creamy Layer' are eligible to apply under OBC Category. The
OBC candidates who belong to 'Creamy Layer' are not entitled to apply under OBC Category.
Candidates belonging to OBC category but coming in the 'Creamy Layer' are not entitled to OBC
reservation. They should indicate their category as ‘Unreserved’. Candidates belonging to the OBC
(NCL) category should have OBC (NCL) certificate issued on or after March 01, 2019 but earlier than
the due date (closing date) of the application.
d. Relaxation of 10 (ten) years for PwBD candidates shall be applicable whether the post is reserved or
not. Relaxation of 13 (thirteen) years for PwBD (OBC) candidates where vacancies are reserved for
OBC candidates. Relaxation of 15 (fifteen) years for PwBD (SC/ST) candidates where vacancies are
reserved for SC/ST candidates.
e. Relaxation of 5 (five) years for Ex-servicemen. Ex-servicemen include Emergency Commissioned
Officers/Short Service Commissioned Officers, who have rendered at least five years continuous
Military Service and have been released a) on completion of assignment (including those whose
assignment is due to be completed within one year from February 29, 2020) otherwise than by way of
dismissal or discharge on account of misconduct or inefficiency or b) on account of physical disability
physical disability attributable to Military Service or c) on invalidment. Emergency Commissioned
Officers/Short Service Commissioned Officers who have completed their initial period of assignment of
five years of Military Service but whose assignment has been extended beyond five years and in whose
case the Ministry of Defence issues certificates that they would be released on selection within three
months from the date of receipt of offer of appointment.
f. Candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward
Classes who are also covered under the category of Persons with Benchmark Disabilities and Ex-
servicemen will be eligible for grant of cumulative age-relaxation.
Where there is no vacancy reserved for OBC/SC/ST category candidates, such candidates can still apply.
However, they will not be eligible for any relaxations. SC/ ST candidates are exempt from payment of application
fee even in such case but will have to pay specified intimation charges. OBC/ PwBD candidates should possess
a latest certificate to this effect issued by the Competent Authority in the prescribed Format (formats are
available on the SEBI website).
II. MODE OF SELECTION: Mode of selection shall be a three stage process i.e. Phase I (on-line screening
examination consisting of two papers of 100 marks each), Phase II (on-line examination consisting of two
papers of 100 marks each) and Phase III (Interview).
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