Nearly 350 girls and boys joined the State Bank of India (SBI), India’s largest bank, in Uttarakhand as clerks today.
Top SBI officials are hoping the new recruitment would considerably meet the shortfall and the bank will be able to retain them in the wake of the recent wage revision where salaries have taken nearly 17.5 per cent jump. Similarly, recruitment has also taken place at the probationary officer and other levels.
Most of these boys and girls are highly qualified, with degrees like M Tech, B Tech, postgraduation and MBA. “We are getting very smart and well-qualified workers this time,” said V D Pant SBI’s Chief Manager (HR) here at the zonal office. SBI has nearly 372 branches in the state. The officials said these clerks will get a salary around Rs 13,500 per month and will be eligible to appear for test in the next two years to become trainee officers with a salary of over Rs 20,000. “If you compare our salaries with those getting jobs in the private sector, this is certainly not bad an offer. We are hopeful most of these boys and girls will stay in our bank due to various factors like stability in banks,” said Jyotish Ghildyal, chief manager.
In the last batch of 2008-09, SBI had recruited nearly 603 clerks in the state and nearly 20-30 per cent of them quit as they got better jobs elsewhere.
The big worry for the SBI is that it cannot send girls to remote areas like Gunji in Pithorgarh district where the maximum posts are vacant. And most of the boys are also not interested in going to such areas.
Nevertheless, SBI is devising a strategy to create a balance between the hills and the plains. Another worry for the bank was that while the retirements had taken place at a faster pace, the recruitment had been comparatively slow. Most of the employees who had joined between 1971 and 1973 had already retired. This had also created a huge gap at the top ranks and the lower levels in the bank.
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Top SBI officials are hoping the new recruitment would considerably meet the shortfall and the bank will be able to retain them in the wake of the recent wage revision where salaries have taken nearly 17.5 per cent jump. Similarly, recruitment has also taken place at the probationary officer and other levels.
Most of these boys and girls are highly qualified, with degrees like M Tech, B Tech, postgraduation and MBA. “We are getting very smart and well-qualified workers this time,” said V D Pant SBI’s Chief Manager (HR) here at the zonal office. SBI has nearly 372 branches in the state. The officials said these clerks will get a salary around Rs 13,500 per month and will be eligible to appear for test in the next two years to become trainee officers with a salary of over Rs 20,000. “If you compare our salaries with those getting jobs in the private sector, this is certainly not bad an offer. We are hopeful most of these boys and girls will stay in our bank due to various factors like stability in banks,” said Jyotish Ghildyal, chief manager.
In the last batch of 2008-09, SBI had recruited nearly 603 clerks in the state and nearly 20-30 per cent of them quit as they got better jobs elsewhere.
The big worry for the SBI is that it cannot send girls to remote areas like Gunji in Pithorgarh district where the maximum posts are vacant. And most of the boys are also not interested in going to such areas.
Nevertheless, SBI is devising a strategy to create a balance between the hills and the plains. Another worry for the bank was that while the retirements had taken place at a faster pace, the recruitment had been comparatively slow. Most of the employees who had joined between 1971 and 1973 had already retired. This had also created a huge gap at the top ranks and the lower levels in the bank.
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