{"id":238447,"date":"2020-11-03T17:52:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T12:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=238447"},"modified":"2020-11-03T17:51:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T12:21:55","slug":"ministry-of-finance-factual-position-in-respect-to-service-charges-levied-by-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/11\/03\/ministry-of-finance-factual-position-in-respect-to-service-charges-levied-by-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Finance | Factual position in respect to Service Charges levied by banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There have been several media reports alluding to steep increase in service charges by certain Public Sector Banks (PSBs).\u00a0 In this context, the factual position is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Basic Savings Bank Deposit (BSBD) accounts including Jan Dhan accounts<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; No service charge is applicable on the 60.04 crore BSBD accounts, including 41.13 crore Jan Dhan accounts opened by the poor and unbanked segments of society, for the free services prescribed by RBI.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Regular Savings accounts, Current Accounts, Cash credit accounts &amp; Overdraft accounts<\/strong>:\u00a0 In this regard, while the charges have not been increased, Bank of Baroda had made certain changes w.e.f. 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0November, 2020, with regard to the number of free cash deposits and withdrawals per month.\u00a0 The number of free cash deposits and withdrawals, have been reduced from 5 each per month to 3 each per month, with no change in the charges for transactions in excess of these free transactions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bank of Baroda has since informed that in the light of the current COVID related situation, they have decided to withdraw the changes.\u00a0 Further, no other PSB has increased such charges recently.<\/p>\n<p 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