Cash Withdrawal Limit From Savings A/Cs To Go From March 13

MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank today said the weekly limit on withdrawal of cash from savings bank accounts will be increased to 50,000, from the current 24,000, from February 20, and the limit will be removed from March 13. 

"The limits on cash withdrawal from savings bank accounts continue to be in place. In line with the pace of remonetisation, it has now been decided to remove these limits in two stages," said RBI Deputy Governor R Gandhi.

"Effective February 22, 2017, the limits from cash withdrawal from savings bank accounts will be enhanced to 50,000 per week from the current limit of 24,000 per week (and) effective March 13, 2017, there will be no limits prescribed by RBI on cash withdrawal from savings bank accounts." 

He was speaking to the media, along with RBI Governor Urjit Patel, after the central bank announced the sixth bi-monthly monetary policy review. 

On the basis of remonetisation, RBI had earlier restrictions on cash withdrawal from current accounts, cash credit accounts and withdrawal through ATMs on February 1. 

However, the weekly withdrawal limit of 24,000 on savings bank accounts is continuing. 

Government and RBI had imposed limits on withdrawal of money from ATMs and bank branches in view of the currency shortage following demonetisation. 

These limits, however, are being gradually eased, with RBI pumping in new notes of 500 and 2,000.

The limits on withdrawal, however, are being gradually eased, with RBI pumping in new notes of 500 and 2,000. 

To a question if fake new currency notes of 500 and 2,000 have come into circulation, Gandhi said the recent ones that have come to notice are photocopies of currency which can be easily identified by the common man. 

The deputy governor said the new notes have enhanced security and design features, and are not easy to copy. 

"The recent one that we have seen is the pure photocopy, so it is not real counterfeiting. So, this photocopy is easy for even a common man to identify. It will be possible for them not to be easily duped," he said. 

Last week, the government had informed Parliament that it has not come across any confirmed reports on detection of counterfeit notes of 2,000. 

"(Neither) the government nor RBI has come across any confirmed reports of detection of counterfeit notes of the denomination of 2,000 in the banking channel," Minister of State for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.

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