Bank of Baroda LBO Recruitment 2026 — 2,482 Local Bank Officer Posts, State-wise Vacancy, Fee, Age and Exam Pattern

The advertisement at a glance

Every figure on this page was read off the Bank's own advertisement, which is linked at the bottom. Where the advertisement is silent, this page says so instead of guessing.

One thing to settle before anything else: this is not a fresher's vacancy. The advertisement makes one year as an officer in a scheduled commercial bank a mandatory requirement, and clerical-cadre service does not count.

State-wise vacancies — and why Gujarat is a third of the whole recruitment

The Bank prints two rows for most states: new vacancies, and unfilled vacancies carried forward from earlier LBO exercises. Both are being filled through this advertisement, so both matter when you judge your chances.

Gujarat alone carries 400 new and 785 unfilled posts. Karnataka is next with 130 and 288. If you are eligible for the local language of either, the arithmetic of this recruitment is very different for you than for someone applying in Tripura, which has 5 and 3.

A dash means the advertisement prints no unfilled row for that state at all. That is an absent row, not a zero we filled in.

You may apply for one state only, and you must be able to read, write, speak and understand its local language. For Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland, English counts as the local language — but only if you passed English as a subject from a school in that state.

Category-wise split of the 2,482 posts

This is the advertisement's own printed total row. The reservation for candidates with benchmark disabilities is horizontal — those 130 posts sit inside the 2,482, they are not added to it.

The merit list is drawn state-wise and category-wise, not nationally, so your competition is the pool that applied for your state in your category.

Who can apply — qualification, experience and age

Graduation in any discipline is enough; the advertisement prints no minimum percentage. What it does insist on is a year of post-qualification experience as an officer in a scheduled commercial bank listed in the Second Schedule of the Reserve Bank of India. Any stint shorter than six months is not counted at all.

Four certifications are named as preferred, not required: IC 38, NISM Series V-A, NISM Series XXI-A and NISM Series XIII.

Serving Bank of Baroda officers and contract staff cannot apply, and neither can anyone who resigned from the Bank's officer cadre within the three years before the cut-off date.

Note one thing the advertisement states plainly: there is no reservation for ex-servicemen in the officers' cadre, though the age relaxation below still applies.

Application fee

The fee is non-refundable, and the advertisement says so even if the online test is never conducted. The gateway charge is added on top and its amount is not printed.

Exam pattern — 120 questions, 120 minutes, sectional timing

The advertisement calls this structure tentative. Each section is separately timed, so you cannot carry spare minutes from one into another.

The English section is qualifying only — its marks are excluded from the final merit list. That is worth planning around: it decides whether you stay in the race, not where you finish.

A quarter of a question's marks is deducted for a wrong answer. Nothing is deducted for leaving a question blank.

After the online test come interviews. The advertisement names a psychometric test and reserves the option of a group discussion, but prints no marks or weightage for any of them.

Important Dates

Age Limit

Minimum Age: 21 years Maximum Age: 30 years

Eligibility

Candidates must fulfil the following eligibility conditions, assessed as on the cut-off date of 01.08.2026, to apply for BOB Local Bank Officer Recruitment 2026.

How to Apply

1. Visit the official Bank of Baroda website: www.bankofbaroda.bank.in.
2. Go to the Career section/webpage and click on "Current Opportunities".
3. Register online and fill in the application form for Local Bank Officer.
4. Upload the required documents, including scanned photograph, signature, resume, DOB proof, educational certificates, work experience certificates, and caste/PWBD certificate (if applicable).
5. Verify all details carefully before submission, as no changes are allowed after clicking Submit.
6. Pay the application fee online using Debit Card, Credit Card, Internet Banking, or UPI.
7. Take a printout of the completed application form and fee receipt for future reference.

Pay, probation and the three-year bond

The scale printed for JMG/S-I starts at 48,480 and runs to 85,920. The advertisement prints no rupee CTC — allowances follow the bipartite settlement, so no monthly figure exists in the document to quote.

The bond is the fact most worth reading twice before you apply, because it is the one that binds you after selection.

What the advertisement does not say

The online test date, the call-letter date and the result date are not printed. The advertisement says the test date will be advised separately, so treat any specific date you see elsewhere as unsourced.

There is no application-correction window in the document, no minimum percentage for graduation, no interview marks or weightage, and no figure for the payment gateway charge.

The Bank prints one combined total of 2,482. It does not print separate totals for new and unfilled vacancies, so neither does this page — those would be our arithmetic, not the Bank's.

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