SBI lifts bar on posting for pregnant women

The State Bank of India has withdrawn a 30-year-old norm placing certain restrictions on immediate posting to pregnant women after their recruitment.



SBI sources here said a recent circular from the bank's headquarters stated that pregnancy need not be considered as a bar for giving immediate postings to women candidates, who had passed the written tests and interviews.



It said the norms were formulated long back on the premise that pregnancy normally results in indifferent health and is a hindrance in discharge of one's duties.



In view of the advancement in medical sciences and changed lifestyles, the medical community felt that women are able to take up work even during pregnancy. So women candidates should be permitted to join the bank in their first two trimesters (upto first six months of pregnancy), the revised rules said.