If clearing a bank exam is good enough, imagine being offered a chance to indicate your order of preference — of both the bank and the State/Union Territory you would like to work in.

The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS), the autonomous body which is in charge of conducting the Common Written Test on behalf of the participating organisations (the banks), has sent a communication to this effect to those who have cleared the CWE for clerical cadre.

The communication gives details of the vacancies in different banks, State-wise and category-wise, thus making it easier for the candidate to submit his/her options. The notification further states that depending on the State-wise vacancies, the successful candidates will be allotted in one of the participating banks in order of merit-cum-preference or keeping in view the Government guidelines on reservation policy and administrative convenience.

While stating thus, it does point out that the indication of preference would not constitute offer of appointment either by the IBPS or the participating banks, besides letting the candidates know that ‘any request for change in allotment would not be entertained’.

Barring SBI, almost all the major public sector banks recruit based on the CWE, and they include: Allahabad Bank, Andhra Bank, Bank of Baroda, Bank of India, Bank of Maharashtra, Canara Bank, Central Bank of India, Corporation Bank, Dena Bank, Indian Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Punjab National Bank, Punjab and Sind Bank, Syndicate Bank, Union Bank of India, United Bank of India, UCO Bank and Vijaya Bank.

The data sheet for 2013-14 reveals that Uttar Pradesh tops the list vacancies in the clerical cadre at 5,402 followed by Maharashtra, at 3,924.

> revathy.lakshminarasimhan@thehindu.co.in

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