One Rupee currency notes are legal tender as provided in The Coinage Act 2011. Even though, printing of existing currency notes of one Rupee denomination is discontinued by the government 20 years back, the old notes are still under circulation as they remain as legal tender. RBI in its press release dated 13.02.2015 said that…
According to earlier RBI Circular [A.P.(DIR Series) No. 82 dated February 21, 2012] any persons, firms and companies for making payments, exceeding USD 5,000 or its equivalent towards imports into India, application for such payment must be made in Form A-1. RBI communique today (dated 13.02.2015) said that in order to further liberalize and simplify…
Government of India vide its notification No.G.S.R 705 ( E ) dated 23.09.2014 notified that the new Kisan Vikas Patra 2014 scheme. In terms of above notification the agency banks, which have been authorized for Public Provident Fund, 1968 (PPF 1968) scheme are required to implement issuance of Kisan Vikas Patra 2014 together with Post…
The Small Finance Bank setup in India is similar to a normal banking activities of other commercial banks viz. accepting deposits from the customers for the purpose of lending to unserved and underserved segments across the country. These banks can also sell mutual funds, pensions, insurance and foreign exchange to their customers The permission to…
Income Tax Slabs, rates, key tax exemption details for Assessment Year 2015-16 (Financial year 2014-15) For Senior CitizenResident Individuals earning Income less than Rs. 5 Lakh in a Year are eligible for income Tax Credit u/s 87A – i.e.10% of taxable income up to a maximum of Rs. 2000/-.] Education Cess : 3% of the…
Due to failure of wage revision negotiation between United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) and IBA under X Bipartite settlement. IBA improved its earlier offer of salary increase 12.50 % to 13% in the taday’s meeting (03.02.2015 which the unions called unsatisfactory offer. Under the Bipartite settlement wage revision of bank employees and officers once…
RBI slashes SLR by 50 bps to 21.50 per cent with effect from February 7, 2015. All other rates remain unchanged. Export Credit refinance (ECR) is replaced with provision of system level liquidity with effect from February 7, 2015. CRR……………………………4% SLR…………………………….21.50% Repo Rate…………………7.75% Reverse Repo Rate……6.75% Marginal Standing Facility Rate….8.75% Bank Rate…………………………………..8.75% Call Rates……………………………………6.40 to8.40%…
Pissiculture is one of the allied activities classified under priority sector lending. Both term loan and cash credit facilities can be considered under the scheme. The facility is extended by the banks for cost of digging of pond or renovation of existing pond, stocking of spawn/fingerlings of fish, seeds, nets, application of lime cakes, fertilizers,…
There were days where bank customers used to wait for a long spell at the banking hall, for their turn to deposit their money at cash counters. Now technology has changed. If plans of commercial banks of installing large number of off-site CDMs/BNAMs at various places, the customers don’t need to walk to reach their…
The Reserve Bank of India’s Reference Rate for the US Dollar is Rs.69.9413 on February, 2015 The corresponding rate for the previous day (January 30.2015) was Rs.70.0268 Based on the reference rate for the US Dollar and the middle rates of the cross-currency quotes, the exchange rate of EUR, GBP and JPY on January 29,2015…