ಇಲ್ಲ. ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಗತವಾಗಿ ಬಿಎಸ್ಬಿಡಿಎ ತೆರೆಯುವವರಿಗೆ ವಯಸ್ಸು ಮತ್ತು ಆದಾಯ ಮುಂತಾದ ನಿರ್ಬಂಧನೆಗಳನ್ನು ಹೇರಬಾರದೆಂದು ಬ್ಯಾಂಕುಗಳಿಗೆ ಆದೇಶ ನೀಡಲಾಗಿದೆ.

ಉತ್ತರ. ಈ ಪಿಪಿಐಗಳನ್ನು ಆ ಘಟಕದಿಂದ ಮಾತ್ರ ಸರಕುಗಳು ಹಾಗೂ ಸೇವೆಗಳನ್ನು ಖರೀದಿಸಲು ಅನುಕೂಲವಾಗುವಂತೆ ಒಂದು ಘಟಕದಿಂದ ನೀಡಲಾಗುತ್ತದೆ ಹಾಗೂ ಹಣ ಹಿಂಪಡೆಯಲು ಅನುಮತಿಸುವುದಿಲ್ಲ . ಈ ಉಪಕರಣಗಳನ್ನು ಮೂರನೇಯ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಗಳ ಸೇವೆಗಳಿಗಾಗಿ ಪಾವತಿಸುವುದಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಅಥವಾ ಹಣ ಸಂದಾಯಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಬಳಸಲಾಗದ ಕಾರಣ, ಅಂತಹ ಉಪಕರಣಗಳ ನೀಡಿಕೆ ಹಾಗೂ ಕಾರ್ಯಾಚರಣೆಯನ್ನು ಆರ್ಬಿಐ ಅನುಮೋದನೆ/ ಅಧಿಕೃತತೆಯ ಅಗತ್ಯವಿರುವ ಪೇಮೆಂಟ್ ಸಿಸ್ಟಮ್ ಎಂದು ವರ್ಗೀಕರಿಸಲಾಗಿಲ್ಲ.

Ans. With effect from July 01, 2019, RBI has waived the processing charges levied by it for RTGS transactions. Banks may pass on the benefit to its customers. With a view to rationalise the service charges levied by banks for offering funds transfer through RTGS system, a broad framework of charges has been mandated as under: a) Inward transactions – Free, no charge to be levied. b) Outward transactions – ₹ 2,00,000/- to 5,00,000/-: not exceeding ₹ 25/- (exclusive of tax, if any) Above ₹ 5,00,000/-: not exceeding ₹ 50 (exclusive of tax, if any) Banks may decide to charge a lower rate but cannot charge more than the rates prescribed by RBI.

The Resolution Framework may be invoked for resolution of all exposures of lending institutions to eligible borrowers, including investment exposures. However, the Resolution Framework is without prejudice to all applicable guidelines issued by the relevant financial sector regulators and other Departments of the RBI in respect of any particular exposure.

One can file a complaint with the NBFC Ombudsman by writing on a plain paper and sending it to the concerned office of the NBFC Ombudsman by post/fax/hand delivery. One can also file it by email to the NBFC Ombudsman.

A complaint form along with the scheme is also available on RBI's website, though, it is not mandatory to use this format.

The application form will be provided by the issuing banks/SHCIL offices/designated Post Offices/agents. It can also be downloaded from the RBI’s website. Banks may also provide online application facility.

Ans. A Factoring Unit (FU) is a standard nomenclature used in TReDS for invoice(s) or bill(s) of exchange. Each FU represents a confirmed obligation of the corporates or other buyers, including Government Departments and PSUs.

One can file a complaint with the Ombudsman by writing on a plain paper and sending it to the concerned office of the Ombudsman by post/fax/hand delivery. One can also file it by email to the Ombudsman for Digital Transactions. (For contact details please click here) A complaint form along with the scheme is also available on RBI's website, though, it is not mandatory to use this format.

Ans. Yes. The merchant is required to provide a printed receipt generated by the PoS terminal. In case the facility is availed along with the purchase of merchandise, the receipt generated shall separately indicate the amount of cash withdrawn.

‘Direct from the source system without any manual intervention’ implies that whatever data and information is available in CBS and other IT systems of the banks would be submitted to the regulator without any manual aggregation, conversion or filling of data.  Activities like collecting or collating of data from diverse source systems and compiling them into RBI prescribed formats manually would fall within the meaning of manual intervention.

Response: Banks and the CPTCs/GMCTAs may put in place a mutually acceptable procedure in this regard and notify that to the relevant CPTCs/GMCTAs.

Ans: In cases of accounts with ASCL above the cut-off where S4A is implemented, both the sustainable and unsustainable debt (Parts A & B) should be counted towards calculating ASCL.

Restructured accounts where cut-off ASCL is achieved/likely to be achieved due to additional finance under the restructuring package under JLF and other RBI frameworks, should not be subjected to disincentive mechanism for the incremental exposure.

Response

No. Banks are advised not to impose restrictions like age and income criteria of the individual for opening BSBDA.

The interest charged on fixed rate loans as well as the fixed portion of hybrid loans will be the interest rate mentioned in the sanction letter.

• For calculating the index ratio for a specific date, daily reference WPI values would be linearly interpolated using ‘Ref WPI’ for the first day of the calendar month and the first day of the following calendar month.

• The formula for computing the reference WPI for a particular day is as under:

  

  [Ref WPI_M = Ref WPI for the first day of the calendar month in which Date falls, Ref WPI_M+1 = Ref WPI for the first day of the calendar month following the settlement date, D = Number of days in month (e.g. 31 days in August), and t= settlement date (e.g. August 6)]

• An example of daily reference WPI computed through interpolation is furnished below.

Date	Ref WPI (Given)	T-1	D	Ref WPI (Interpolation)
1-May-13	168.8
2-May-13		1	31	168.85
3-May-13		2	31	168.90
4-May-13		3	31	168.95
5-May-13		4	31	168.99
6-May-13		5	31	169.04
7-May-13		6	31	169.09
8-May-13		7	31	169.14
9-May-13		8	31	169.19
10-May-13		9	31	169.24
11-May-13		10	31	169.28
12-May-13		11	31	169.33
13-May-13		12	31	169.38
14-May-13		13	31	169.43
15-May-13		14	31	169.48
16-May-13		15	31	169.53
17-May-13		16	31	169.57
18-May-13		17	31	169.62
19-May-13		18	31	169.67
20-May-13		19	31	169.72
21-May-13		20	31	169.77
22-May-13		21	31	169.82
23-May-13		22	31	169.86
24-May-13		23	31	169.91
25-May-13		24	31	169.96
26-May-13		25	31	170.01
27-May-13		26	31	170.06
28-May-13		27	31	170.11
29-May-13		28	31	170.15
30-May-13		29	31	170.20
31-May-13		30	31	170.25
1-June-13	170.3

A composite loan limit of ₹1 crore can be sanctioned by banks to enable the MSME entrepreneurs to avail of their working capital and term loan requirement through Single Window in terms of our Master Direction on Lending to the MSME sector dated July 24, 2017. All scheduled commercial banks were advised vide our circular RPCD.SME&NFS. BC.No.102/06.04.01/2008-09 dated May 4, 2009 that the banks which have sanctioned term loan singly or jointly must also sanction working capital (WC) limit singly (or jointly, in the ratio of term loan) to avoid delay in commencement of commercial production thereby ensuring that there are no cases where term loan has been sanctioned and working capital facilities are yet to be sanctioned.

The application is automatically inwarded in the receiving office/ department and marked to the administrator of that department.

Ans : Yes, however, such NBFC-Factors will need to obtain the necessary authorization from the Foreign Exchange Department of the Bank under FEMA 1999 as amended and adhere to all the FEMA regulations in this regard.

Ans. Kindly refer to paragraphs 3 and 4 of ‘Master Direction- Compounding of Contraventions under FEMA, 1999’ dated January 01, 2016 (updated as on January 4, 2021). The above Master Direction can be downloaded from the Reserve Bank’s website by clicking on the link /en/web/rbi/-/notifications/master-direction-compounding-of-contraventions-under-fema-1999-updated-as-on-may-24-2022-10190

Answer: The following accounts are permitted:

1. Foreign diplomatic missions and diplomatic personnel and their family members in India may open rupee deposits with an AD Bank.

2. Diplomatic missions and diplomatic personnel can open special rupee accounts namely Diplomatic Bond Stores Account to facilitate purchases of bonded stocks from firms and companies who have been granted special facilities by customs authorities for import of stores into bond, subject to conditions. The funds in the account may be repatriated outside India without the approval of Reserve Bank.

3. Diplomatic missions, diplomatic personnel and non-diplomatic staff, who are the nationals of the concerned foreign countries and hold official passport of foreign embassies in India can open foreign currency accounts in India. The account may be held in the form of current or term deposit account, and in the case of diplomatic personnel and non-diplomatic staff, may also be held in the form of savings account Such accounts can be credited by way of inward remittances and transfers (which are collected in India as visa fees) from the rupee account of the diplomatic mission in India. Funds held in such account if converted in rupees shall not be converted back into foreign currency. The funds in the account may be repatriated outside India without the approval of Reserve Bank.

Ans: No, there is no limit imposed by the RBI for funds transfer through NEFT system. However, a member bank may place amount limits based on its own risk perception with the approval of its Board.

Yes. The prescribed minimum NOF needs to be maintained on an ongoing basis.

Ans The receiving branch acknowledges every transaction it receives after crediting the beneficiary’s account. The acknowledgment particulars reach the remitting branch as an inward message on Day 3 of the EFT processing cycle. The remitting branch will, therefore, have precise information as to when the beneficiary’s account was credited.

Permanent Account Number (PAN) is the KYC document for individuals depositing in the scheme. If a declarant does not hold PAN, he shall apply for PAN and provide the details of such PAN application along with acknowledgement number to the bank while making the application. On receipt of PAN, the details may be updated with the bank from which application was made.

All funds held in the same type of ownership at the same bank are added together before deposit insurance is determined. If the funds are in different types of ownership or are deposited into separate banks they would then be separately insured.

Ans. Yes, this is permissible. With effect from July 01, 2016, all eligible current account transactions including trade transactions in “Euro” are permitted to be settled outside the ACU mechanism until further notice.

In connection with private visits abroad, viz., for tourism purposes, etc., foreign exchange up to USD10,000, in any one calendar year may be obtained from an authorised dealer. The ceiling of USD10,000 is applicable in aggregate and foreign exchange may be obtained for one or more than one visit provided the aggregate foreign exchange availed of in one calendar year does not exceed the prescribed ceiling of US$10,000 {The facility was earlier called B.T.Q or F.T.S.}. This limit of USD10,000 can be availed of by a person along with foreign exchange for travel abroad for any purpose, including for employment or immigration or studies. However, no foreign exchange is available for visit to Nepal and/or Bhutan for any purpose.

Ans. On return from a foreign trip, travellers are required to surrender unspent foreign exchange held in the form of currency notes and travellers cheques within 180 days of return. However, they are free to retain foreign exchange up to USD 2,000, in the form of foreign currency notes or TCs for future use or credit to their Resident Foreign Currency (Domestic) [RFC (Domestic)] Accounts.

No. The requirement is that not less than 51 per cent of the voting equity shares of the NOFHC shall be held by companies in the Promoter Group, in which the public hold not less than 51 percent of the voting equity of such companies. If 10 independent individuals form a Group, then such a Group cannot satisfy the above criteria laid down for holding the NOFHC. Additionally, such newly formed Promoter Group would not be able to meet one of the ‘Fit and Proper’ criteria, which requires Promoters/Promoter Groups to have a successful track record of running their business for at least 10 years. Essentially, the intention is that existing groups should set up banks and not groups set up for this purpose. However, it is clarified that individuals belonging to the Promoter Group can participate in the voting equity shares of NOFHC. While any such individual along with his relatives (as defined in Section 6 of the Companies Act 1956) and along with entities in which he and / or his relatives hold not less than 50 per cent of the voting equity shares, can hold voting equity shares not exceeding 10 per cent of the total voting equity shares of the NOFHC, all such individuals (along with their relatives and companies as specified above) irrespective of their numbers, cannot hold more than 49 per cent of the voting equity shares of the NOFHC (since the companies forming part of the Promoter Group whereof companies in which the public hold not less than 51 per cent of the voting equity shares shall hold not less than 51 per cent of the total voting equity shares of the NOFHC).[ para 2 ( C ) (ii) (a) and (b) of the guidelines]

Ans. Direct access to CPS for non-banks will be enabled in a phased manner. In the first phase, the following authorised non-bank PSPs will be provided access –

i. Prepaid Payment Instrument (PPI) Issuers,

ii. Card Networks and

iii. White Label ATM Operators.

Banks would be free to price the deposit within the overall ceiling as per the extant guidelines issued by RBI (c.f. RBI Circular DBOD.Dir.BC. 38/13.03.00/2013-14 dated August 14, 2013).

The facility is no longer available to Resident Indians as the grace period has expired on March 31, 2017 except for the confiscated specified banknotes as per the Specified Bank Notes (Deposit of Confiscated Notes) Rules 2017 notified by GoI on May 12, 2017.

Government securities in the form of GPN, bearer bond, stock and BLA are issued by RBI, while the Agency Banks are presently eligible to issue Relief/Savings Bonds in the form of BLA only.

No. Only eligible receipts/payments to offshore accounts of the non-resident entity holding the SNRR account are allowed.

Ans. No

Fixed rate 1.5% per annum
Issue/ Coupon/ maturity date	Fixed rate	CPI	Inflation rate *	Interest rate (Compounding rate)	Principal
I	II	III	IV	V=II+IV	VI=VI*V
25-Dec-13		150			5000
25-Jun-14	0.75	160	6.67	7.4	5371
25-Dec-14	0.75	166	3.75	4.5	5613
25-Jun-15	0.75	175	5.42	6.2	5959
25-Dec-15	0.75	185	5.71	6.5	6344
25-Jun-16	0.75	190	2.70	3.5	6563
25-Dec-16	0.75	200	5.26	6.0	6958
25-Jun-17	0.75	210	5.00	5.8	7358
25-Dec-17	0.75	218	3.81	4.6	7693
25-Jun-18	0.75	228	4.59	5.3	8104
25-Dec-18	0.75	235	3.07	3.8	8414
25-Jun-19	0.75	246	4.68	5.4	8870
25-Dec-19	0.75	255	3.66	4.4	9262
25-Jun-20	0.75	265	3.92	4.7	9694
25-Dec-20	0.75	280	5.66	6.4	10316
25-Jun-21	0.75	290	3.57	4.3	10761
25-Dec-21	0.75	305	5.17	5.9	11399
25-Jun-22	0.75	316	3.61	4.4	11895
25-Dec-22	0.75	330	4.43	5.2	12512
25-Jun-23	0.75	340	3.03	3.8	12985
25-Dec-23	0.75	355	4.41	5.2	13655
*Inflation rates are calculated on half yearly basis.

Answer: Yes, provided Indian branch of foreign bank is an AD bank. This is subject to approval of Reserve Bank as in the case of other such accounts.

The data may be shared with the overseas regulator, if so required, depending upon the nature / origin of transaction with due approval of RBI.

Ans. No.

Members of the public can exchange ₹2000 banknotes upto to a limit of ₹20,000/- at a time.

Ans : Yes, in addition to the consent of the beneficiaries, the mandate also provides important information related to bank account details etc. which are useful for the user institution to transfer funds to the right accounts . A model mandate form has been prescribed for the purpose and is available in the ECS Credit Procedural Guidelines.

The Reserve Bank of India is the aggregator for accounting of all GST collections in the respective government accounts. Agency banks who collect the GST for challans generated by tax payers online on the GST portal report the collections for settlement to government accounts to RBI. RBI has also facilitated payment of GST by tax payers directly into government accounts at RBI by using NEFT / RTGS payment options provided in GST portal.

Yes. This is available on the RBI website. The aggregator or facilitator through whom the application is made will assist the investor to obtain the form.

Ans: The amount of remittance will flow back to the originating bank branch in India through the NEFT system and the bank branch would then communicate to the remitter about return of the remittance. If the remittance was originated by debit to an account, the returned amount will be credited to that account. If the remittance was made by a walk-in customer through a cash deposit, the remitter has to produce evidence of proof of remittance (counterfoil of the remittance application form) for getting refund.

There are three images of each cheque that are taken in CTS – front Gray Scale, front Black and White and back Black and White. Customers should use image friendly coloured ink to write cheques to facilitate clear image of written information. Further, customer should use permanent ink to prevent fraudulent alternation of contents later. However, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has not prescribed specific ink colors to be used to writing cheques.

Customer should also be aware that cheques with alteration / modification are not accepted under CTS. No changes / corrections can be carried out on the cheques (other than for date validation purposes, if required). For any change in the payee’s name, courtesy amount (amount in figures) or legal amount (amount in words), fresh cheque leaves should be used by customers. This would help banks in identifying and controlling fraudulent alterations.

One can file a complaint with the Banking Ombudsman simply by writing on a plain paper. One can also file it online at (“click here to lodge a complaint”) or by sending an email to the Banking Ombudsman. There is a form along with details of the scheme in our website. However, it is not mandatory to use this format.

Banks have freedom to determine their own penal rates of interest for premature withdrawal of term deposits.

Authorised dealers are permitted to allow advance remittance where the contracts/agreements insist for the same. However, where the amount exceeds US $ 100,000 or its equivalent, a guarantee from a bank of international repute, situated outside India or a guarantee from an authorised dealer in India, if such a guarantee is issued against the counter-guarantee of a bank of international repute situated outside India, should be obtained from the overseas beneficiary. The remitter in India will have to ensure that the overseas beneficiary has fulfilled his obligations under the contract/agreement.