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Certificate Examination for Business Correspondents

[for Payments Banks - Module A and Module B]

Rules & Syllabus 2020

INTRODUCTION

In order to ensure financial inclusion, several initiatives have been taken by the Government of India and Reserve Bank of India. Business Correspondents (BCs) play an important role in achieving financial inclusion. The BCs act as a bridge between Bank branches and the people in the area. A BC is the first point of contact and the front face of the bank branch to the people. In order to enable the BCs to be more effective, they need to be imparted the desired level of knowledge. In this context, the certificate examination of IIBF for the BC’s has the following objective

OBJECTIVE:

This course is aimed at providing the knowledge inputs and skills set to BCs. The structure of the course is, therefore to provide basic knowledge in banking operations and help the BCs in developing an overall understanding of the subject.

SYLLABUS:

RBI has designated IIBF as the sole certifying agency for the banks SCBs (including RRBs), SFBs and the Payments Banks. As the operations of the Payments Banks are limited as compared to the Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs), the syllabus for the BCs of the Payments Banks have been rationalized in consultation with RBI. Accordingly, the syllabus outline for the BCs of the Payments Banks will be as under:

Sr. No Particulars Topics Number of questions and marks in the question paper Duration of Examination
1 Module A Topics relevant to Payments Bank (liability side, remittances, general banking etc.) Please see Annexure I 50 questions for 50 marks 1 hour
2 Module B Additional topics as applicable to the BCs of the SCBs Please see Annexure - I 50 questions for 50 marks 1 hour

The detailed syllabus for the examination is indicated in Annexure- I

SUBJECT OF EXAMINATION:

Module-A:- Inclusive Banking Thro’ Business Correspondents - Module A
Module-B:- Inclusive Banking Thro’ Business Correspondents - Module B

PASSING CRITERIA:

Minimum pass marks for each module is 40% i.e. 20 out of 50 marks.

ELIGIBILITY:

Module-A is applicable to BC’s of Payments Banks.
Module-B applicable to BCs of Payments Banks who have cleared Module-A and subsequently appointed by SCBs.

MEDIUM OF EXAMINATION:

Examination will be conducted in English, Hindi and other vernacular languages viz., Marathi, Malayalam, Gujarati, Kannada, Oriya, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu and Assamese. The examination will be conducted in bilingual mode.

PATTERN OF EXAMINATION:

  1. For Module A and Module B: for each module Question Paper will contain 50 objective type multiple choice questions for 50 marks.
  2. The examination will be held in Online mode only
  3. There will NOT be negative marking for wrong answers.

DURATION OF EXAMINATION:

The duration of the examination will be of 1 hour.

Syllabus for the Certificate Examination

Module A : Applicable to BCs of Payments Banks

Particulars

GENERAL BANKING

FINANCIAL INCLUSION AND ROLE OF BCAs

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SOFT SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURAL ASPECTS

Module B: Applicable to BCs of Payments Banks who have cleared Module A and subsequently appointed by SCBs

Particulars