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deposits: RBI-owned subsidiary

‘No information’ on raising Rs

1 lakh insured amount limit
on bank deposits: RBI-owned
subsidiary
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman last month said the government
plans to bring in legislation on raising the insurance cover on bank
deposits from the current Rs 1 lakh during the winter session of
Parliament.

By: PTI | New Delhi | Published: December 3, 2019 8:01:11 pm

There is “no information” on raising the Rs 1 lakh insurance limit on bank deposits, according to the
Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Reserve
Bank of India. (Representational image)

There is “no information” on raising the Rs 1 lakh insurance limit on bank deposits,
according to the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC), a
wholly-owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman last month said the government plans to
bring in legislation on raising the insurance cover on bank deposits from the
current Rs 1 lakh during the winter session of Parliament.

Her assertion came days after Sahakar Bharati, a non-profit with many of its office
bearers close to the RSS, pitched for an increase in deposit insurance limits to Rs 5
lakh for individuals.

“The corporation does not have the requisite information,” DICGC said in response
to an RTI query on whether there is any proposal or move under consideration to
raise the limit of Rs 1 lakh insured in the bank.

The DICGC which insures all bank deposits, also said depositors in failed and
liquidated banks will get only up to Rs 1 lakh as insurance cover, regardless of the
amount in their accounts.

“Under the provisions of Section 16 (1) of the DICGC Act, 1961, if a bank fails/gets
liquidated, the DICGC is liable to pay to each depositor through the liquidator, the
amount of his deposit up to Rs one lakh as insurance cover, for both principal and
interest amount held by him in the same right and same capacity at all the
branches of a bank taken together,” it said in response to the RTI application filed
by this PTI journalist.

The corporation covers all commercial banks, including branches of foreign banks
functioning in India, local area banks and regional rural banks.

All eligible cooperative banks as defined in Section 2(gg) of the DICGC Act are also
covered by the deposit insurance scheme.

“Each depositor in a bank is insured up to a maximum of Rs one lakh as on the date

of liquidation/cancellation of bank’s license or the date on which the scheme of
amalgamation/merger/reconstruction comes into force,” the DICGC said.

The response assumes significance with numerous instances of different banks

becoming victim of frauds, putting at risk the savings of people.

On September 24, the RBI imposed operational curbs on Maharashtra-based PMC

Bank and appointed an administrator following the detection of alleged financial
irregularities.

According to the Mumbai Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW), the PMC Bank
management, allegedly in cahoots with a business family, concealed huge loan
defaults by HDIL group firms from banking regulators.

Over 70 per cent of the bank’s advances went to HDIL group, which led to a huge
crisis when the realty group defaulted on repayment, the EOW said.

Government owned banks have reported frauds of over Rs 95,700 crore in the first
six months of the current fiscal.

“According to Reserve Bank of India (RBI), frauds as per year of reporting, as

reported by Public Sector Banks (PSBs), during the period from April 1, 2019 to
September 30, 2019 is 5,743 involving a total amount of Rs 95,760.49 crore,” Finance
Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in the Rajya Sabha last month.

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