- SBI CLOSES 41.16 LAKH SAVINGS BANK ACCOUNTS: State Bank of India has closed as many as 41.16 lakh savings bank accounts from April 2017 to January 2018 for not maintaining the average monthly balance. In April’17 SBI had re-introduced penal charges on non-maintenance of average monthly balance. Later on in October’17 it had revised down the charges to some extent. SBI has 41 crore savings bank accounts of which 16 crores are under Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana, pensioners, minors and social security benefit holders which are exempted from the penalty for not maintaining minimum balance.
- NO DEADLINE FOR LINKING AADHAAR CARD TO SERVICES : Supreme court has extended the March 31ST deadline for mandatory linking of Aadhaar to avail various services and welfare schemes run by the government till its constitution bench delivers its verdict on the validity of the 12 digit biometric number.
- SAVINGS FROM DIRECT BENEFIT TRANSFER PEGGED AT Rs. 83,000 CRORE: The government has estimated that the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) has helped it to save around Rs. 82,985 crore overall. The scheme, which entails transfer of subsidies directly to the beneficiary’s account, has helped to save around Rs. 25,956 Crore in the 10 months up to January 2018 in this fiscal. The DBT scheme initially launched by UPA government in 2013 has been significantly extended by the present government, with the number of beneficiaries rising to 118.3 crore. The 45% jump in the savings is the result of pruning of fake or duplicate beneficiaries and plugging leakages which the present government has achieved by linking Aadhaar to the bank accounts.
- FRAUDS TO COST PNB NEARLY Rs. 14,500 CRORE THIS YEAR: The Punjab National bank (PNB) expects Rs. 14,500 crore loss this year on account of frauds (including contingent liabilities) following the scam by diamond traders. PNB has appraised that the total loss reported by it due to frauds was Rs. 341.03 crore in FY 2015-6, Rs. 2,633.39 crore in FY 2016-17 and Rs. 14,506.39 in FY 2017-18 (including contingent liability).
- 11,300 CRORE LYING UNCLAIMED WITH 64 BANKS: As per RBI’s latest report, an amount of Rs. 11,302 crore belonging to over 3 crore account holders is lying unclaimed with 64 Indian Banks. The largest amount – Rs. 1,262 crore is lying with SBI, Rs. 1,250 crore with PNB, while the remaining Rs. 7,040 crore with all other nationalised banks. However all this unclaimed money is just a fraction of the total deposits of over Rs. 100 lakh crore handled by these banks. Most of the unclaimed deposits would be cases of deceased account holders or people with multiple bank accounts.
- 25% OVERSEAS BRANCHES OF PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS REPORTED LOSSES IN FY 17: The Union government has said that 25% (one fourth of all foreign branches of PSBs) have reported losses last financial year. As per the data available out of the 159 branches of PSBs operating overseas, 41 branches have incurred losses.
- HOME BUYERS TO GET FINANCIAL CREDITOR TAG: A 14 member panel set up to review the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (IBC) is likely to recommend an amendment by which all home buyers will get a status of “Creditor”. This means that the home buyer will get the status of a financial creditor like banks and accorded similar benefits, in case their builder goes through insolvency proceedings before giving rightful possession of the flats. Here Home buyers will be third in the preference of order to get the proceeds—after the clearance of the cost of resolution and workers’ dues.
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