The Ministry of Labour and Employment on Sunday announced additional benefits for workers through social securities schemes run by the EPFO and the ESIC amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “The Ministry of Labour and Employment has announced additional benefits for workers through ESIC and EPFO schemes to address the fear and anxiety of workers about well…
In terms of GoI notification F.No.4(5)-B(W&M)/2021 and RBI press release dated May 12, 2021, the Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme 2021-22 – Series III will be open for subscription for the period from May 31, 2021 to June 04, 2021. The nominal issue price per gram of gold for off-line subscriber is Rs.4889 (Rupees Four thousand…
NPCI is an umbrella organisation for operating retail payments and settlement systems in India, under the provisions of the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007, for creating a robust Payment & Settlement Infrastructure in India. It has been incorporated as a “Not for Profit” Company under the provisions of Section 25 of Companies Act 1956…
The RBI, in a statement yesterday, said the redemption price for the early redemption of SGB tranche-1 due on May 30 shall be ₹4,837 per unit of SGB and payable on May 29 (May 30, 2021, is Sunday). This translates into an appreciation of about 80 percent over the issue price of ₹2,684 per unit…
The state-of-the-art payment service *99# works on the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) channel. This service allows mobile banking transactions using the basic feature of mobile phones, there is no need to have a mobile internet data facility for using USSD based mobile banking. The above service is intended to take the banking services to…
National Financial Switch (NFS) is the largest network of shared automated teller machines (ATMs) in India. It was designed, developed, and deployed with the aim of inter-connecting the ATMs in the country and facilitating convenience banking. The network was taken over by NPCI from Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) on December…
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has developed the National Electronic Toll Collection (NETC) program to meet the electronic tolling requirements of the Indian market. It provides an electronic payment facility to customer to make the payments at national, state and city toll plazas by identifying the vehicle uniquely through a FASTag. All lanes…
BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) is an Indian mobile payment app developed by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), based on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI). BHIM is built over the Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) infrastructure and allows the user to instantly transfer money between bank accounts of any two parties and encourage cashless…
RBI announces issue of the second tranche of the Sovereign Gold Bonds (SGBs) scheme 2021-22. The subscription opens for public from May 24, 2021, and will close on May 28, 2021. Issue price per gram of gold is Rs 4,792 for those investors applying online and the payment against the application is made through digital…
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) today extended the due date of filing income tax returns for 2020-21 for individuals till 30 September. CBDT has also extended the ITR filing deadline for companies by a month till November 30.Further, submission of TDS statement for Q4 of FY 2020-21 is extended to 30th June 2021…