The country’s largest bank, State Bank of India (SBI), is expected to hire about 10,000 people this year. This recruitment will be in both the sections Clerical and Co-operative.

SBI Chairman Rajneesh Kumar said that at present the bank has about 2.64 lakh employees, of which about 1,000 employees and officials are retiring every month. Hundred percent of new employees will not be replaced in their place because more work is done automatically by using more techniques. However, 75% to 80% of the recruits who are retiring will be recruited. In this way, during the current financial year, there are plans for recruitment of 9,000-10,000 employees and officers. Preparations have begun for this.

SBI get almost digital

The Chairman said that SBI is in the process of offering more and more services in its mobile app so that its customers do not have to worry about coming in the branches. At present, only 16 percent of SBI subscribers are taking services in the branches. The remaining 84 percent of the customers are either using Internet Banking or through mobile phone apps or its E-Kiosk. It is preparing to increase it so that more and more customers can take service at home and they will not have to worry about coming to the bank. At present, the total number of SBI branches is close to 23,000, in which there are about 42 million bank accounts.

Yono expansion

SBI released the Yono (You Only Need One) app on November 23, in which customers were getting a transaction, money transfer and some other facilities. Rajneesh Kumar said that this app is now being made more useful so that customers can get Lifestyle related services besides Financial services. It is worth mentioning that the bank is now offering hotel booking, book sales, cab booking, entertainment, food drinking, travel, insurance and medical services, shopping etc. in the services offered on their app. For this, the bank deals with various e-commerce companies.