Interest rates unchanged on small savings instruments for January–March 2025
Govt. keeps interest rates unchanged on small savings schemes for third quarter starting January 1, 2025 The rate of Interest chart for various small savings instruments: Scheme Interest rate for January-March 2025 Interest rate for October-December 2024 Interest compounded Savings account 4.00% 4.00% Annual rest 1-year time deposit 6.90% 6.90% Quarterly rest 2-years’ time deposit…
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Govt. revises norms for Dividend payout, Bonus Shares, Stock split, and Share buybacks
The Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) released new guidelines amending its earlier2016 rules to better reflect market realities. “These guidelines have been done keeping in mind the realities of the market and forward looking”, said the secretary of DIPAM. The new guidelines will be applicable from the current financial year ending March…
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Interest rates unchanged on small savings instruments for Oct–Dec 2024
Govt. keeps interest rates unchanged on small savings schemes for the third quarter starting October 1 The rate of Interest chart: Scheme Interest rate for October-December 2024 Interest rate for July – September 2024 Interest compounded Savings account 4.00% 4.00% Annual rest 1-year time deposit 6.90% 6.90% Quarterly rest 2-years’ time deposit 7.00% 7.00% Quarterly…
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NPS Vatsalya Scheme: Know eligibility, investment choices etc.
On Tuesday, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman officially launched the much anticipated NPS Vatsalya scheme, an online new pension scheme platform. The scheme is designed to help parents save for their children’s future through a pension account, leveraging the benefits of long-term wealth accumulation and compounding. This scheme has an option to convert the account…
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Financial Inclusion by extension of banking services for welfare schemes
The RBI while considering applications for opening branches gives weightage to the nature and scope of banking facilities provided by banks to common persons, particularly in underbanked areas (districts), actual credit flow to the priority sector, pricing of products, and overall efforts for promoting financial inclusion, including the introduction of appropriate new products and the…
Mahila Samman Savings Certificate
The Mahila Samman Savings Certificate Scheme was launched by the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance to provide financial security to every girl and woman in India. The Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, through an e-gazette notification issued on June 27, 2023, permitted all Public Sector Banks and eligible Private Sector Banks…
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