{"id":3601,"date":"2019-06-11T01:07:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T19:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourcareerheights.com\/?p=3601"},"modified":"2019-06-11T03:18:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T21:48:55","slug":"reserve-bank-of-india-relaxes-norms-for-no-frills-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourcareerheights.com\/?p=3601","title":{"rendered":"Reserve Bank of India relaxes norms for no-frills accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Financial Inclusion- Access to Banking Services \u2013 Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account (BSBDA)<\/h3>\n
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The apex bank eased regulations for Basic Savings Bank Deposit (BSBD) Accounts, popularly known as 'no-frills' accounts. As part of the financial inclusion drive, the RBI had asked banks to provide BSBDA as a savings account offering - certain minimum facilities, free of charge. The\u00a0Reserve Bank of India\u00a0(RBI) on Monday said commercial banks need to offer holders of basic savings bank deposit (BSBD) accounts, a minimum of four withdrawals in a month, including automatic teller machine (ATM) withdrawals. The rules will come into force from 1 July.<\/h3>\n

The Basic Savings Bank Deposit (BSBD) Account was designed as a savings account which will offer certain minimum facilities, free of charge, to the holders of such accounts. In the interest of better customer service, RBI decided to make certain changes in the facilities associated with the account. Banks are now advised to offer the following basic minimum facilities in the BSBD Account, free of charge, without any requirement of minimum balance.<\/p>\n

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  1. The deposit of cash at bank branch as well as ATMs\/CDMs<\/li>\n
  2. Receipt\/ credit of money through any electronic channel or by means of deposit \/collection of cheques drawn by Central\/State Government agencies and departments<\/li>\n
  3. No limit on number and value of deposits that can be made in a month<\/li>\n
  4. Minimum of four withdrawals in a month, including ATM withdrawals<\/li>\n
  5. ATM Card or ATM-cum-Debit Card<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The BSBD Account shall be considered a normal banking service available to all.<\/p>\n

    Banks are free to provide additional value-added services, including issue of cheque book, beyond the above minimum facilities, which may\/may not be priced (in non-discriminatory manner) subject to disclosure. The availment of such additional services shall be at the option of the customers. However, while offering such additional services, banks shall not require the customer to maintain a minimum balance. Offering such additional services will not make it a non-BSBD Account, so long as the prescribed minimum services are provided free of charge.<\/p>\n

    The holders of BSBD Account will not be eligible for opening any other savings bank deposit account in that bank. If a customer has any other existing savings bank deposit account in that bank, he\/she will be required to close it within 30 days from the date of opening a BSBD Account. Further, before opening a BSBD account, a bank should take a declaration from the customer that he\/she is not having a BSBD account in any other bank.<\/p>\n

    The BSBD Account shall be subject to RBI instructions on KYC\/AML for opening of bank accounts issued vide\u00a0Master Direction DBR.AML.BC.No.81\/14.01.001\/2015-16 dated February 25, 2016<\/a>\u00a0on \u2018Master Direction - Know Your Customer (KYC) Direction, 2016\u2019, as amended from time to time.<\/p>\n

    The instructions issued on free transactions available for normal savings bank account in own-bank\/other bank ATMs vide circulars DPSS.CO.PD.No.316\/02.10.002\/2014-15 dated August 14, 2014<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0DPSS.CO.PD.No.659\/02.10.002\/2014-15 dated October 10, 2014<\/a>\u00a0are not applicable to BSBD accounts. The minimum free withdrawals available to the BSBD Account holders can be made at all ATMs (own-bank\/other bank ATMs).<\/p>\n

    Source: rbi.org.in (Financial Inclusion- Access to Banking Services \u2013 Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account (BSBDA)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The apex bank eased regulations for Basic Savings Bank Deposit (BSBD) Accounts, popularly known as ‘no-frills’ accounts. As part of the financial inclusion drive, the RBI had asked banks to provide BSBDA as a savings account offering – certain minimum facilities, free of charge. The\u00a0Reserve Bank of India\u00a0(RBI) on Monday said commercial banks need to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,636,638,225,121,637,45,51],"tags":[639,521,124,640,40],"class_list":["post-3601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","category-bsbda","category-financial-inclusion","category-interest-rate","category-kyc","category-no-frill-accounts","category-rbi","category-savings","tag-bsbda","tag-financial-inclusion","tag-kyc","tag-no-frills-account","tag-rbi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yourcareerheights.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Currency-Chest.jpg?fit=800%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourcareerheights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourcareerheights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourcareerheights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourcareerheights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourcareerheights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yourcareerheights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3603,"href":"https:\/\/yourcareerheights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601\/revisions\/3603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourcareerheights.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourcareerheights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourcareerheights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourcareerheights.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}