The Finance Ministry has introduced a revised framework to streamline recruitment examinations and result timelines for public sector banks, aiming to improve transparency and reduce attrition across the system.

According to the Department of Financial Services (DFS), the changes apply to recruitment for State Bank of India, nationalised banks and regional rural banks, all of which follow the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) process. The ministry noted that the current sequence of exams and results often leads to candidates shifting from RRBs to NBs and eventually to SBI, creating operational challenges and high attrition.

To address this, the DFS reviewed the recruitment cycle and advised the Indian Banks’ Association to adopt a uniform and logical order for result announcements. Under the new system, results will now be declared first for SBI, followed by nationalised banks and then RRBs. Officer-level results will be released before clerical-level results in the same sequence.

The ministry said the move is intended to help candidates make timely and better-informed choices while improving predictability in the recruitment process. The revised structure is expected to strengthen workforce stability, reduce industry-wide attrition and support smoother manpower planning across the banking sector.