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Is your money safe in Government banks?

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A big chunk of money(retired sevice funds) is sitting idle in my dad’s bank account (Central Bank of India) and we are worried abouts it’s security, he hasn’t fixed deposited the amount yet as we are looking to buy property with that money but due to Covid things are getting delayed..With horror stories like PMC scam, privatisation we are getting little worried…. suggestion pls ( My dad doesn’t have multiple bank accounts)

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The PostMighty The PostMighty
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Yes… Absolutely safe in any Indian government owned bank… Firstly because they are majority owned by the government (CBI is 93% owned by GOI) and the government keeps on infusing funds to keep their Capital Adequacy Ratio at 12%. If the government finds it difficult to infuse funds, they merge them into larger stronger PSU banks

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Thanks for the information. VU

Deal Subedar Deal Subedar
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Instead of sitting idle park the money in FDs will fetch you more than mere savings interest

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Raju Bhai as I said, we are looking for a property and need liquidity, breaking the FD prematurely will attract penalty.

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Tech Guru Tech Guru
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Your money is safe upto 5 lakhs, courtesy of DICGC. 🙂
So, ask your father to distribute his money in different banks in different accounts. 🙂🙂🙂🙂

Deal Subedar Deal Subedar
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Government take guaranty(insurance) of upto 1lakh for government banks. Government will give you max 1 lakh if bank got closed or bankrupt.
It’s 99% in any cases government give funds to save bank and rare case government bank will be bankrupt 😇

Tech Guru Tech Guru
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5 lakh brother. It’s upto 5 lakh ( principal + interest) and it encompasses all sort of banks.
The DICGC insures all deposits such as savings, fixed, current, recurring, etc. Each depositor in a Bank is insured up to a maximum of Rs.5,00,000/- (Rupees Five Lakh only) for both principal and interest amount held by him in the same right and same capacity as on the date of liquidation/cancellation of Bank’s licence or the date on which the scheme of amalgamation/ merger/ reconstruction comes into force https://sbi.co.in/web/personal-banking/kyc-guid... ( SBI is a PS bank.), Deposits are insured by DICGC upto Rs 5.00 lakhs per customer. (https://www.pnbindia.in/saving-deposit-gerneral...),

https://m.rbi.org.in/Scripts/FAQView.aspx...64 is the main link.

Which banks are insured by the DICGC ? Commercial Banks : All commercial banks including branches of foreign banks functioning in India, local area banks and regional rural banks are insured by the DICGC. https://www.dicgc.org.in/FD_A-GuideToDepositIns...
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Deal Subedar Deal Subedar
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  • Our beloved Fakir aadmi can sell our bank anytime anywhere.
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Deal Cadet Deal Cadet
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I would have preferred SBI or HDFC instead of CBI smile

Deal Subedar Deal Subedar
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Small advice, if bank account as big amount then do transactions only with cheque or self withdrawal slip as linking bank accounts with upi, Internet banking or debit card is bit risky now a days.

Deal Cadet Deal Cadet
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It is safe, since Govt is promoter. Govt is always last to default.

Analyst Analyst
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Ofcourse it is safe.. Wel upto a small amount anyway or until the government runs short of money..

OH WAIT……………………………..

Deal Cadet Deal Cadet
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i concede i was mini-trolling from my first reply here, but it was without taking too direct names or references.

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@bikidas2060 5 lakh insurance only comes into effect when RBI declares a bank “bankrupt” & that has never happened till now. What most likely will happen is that bank will be merged with another bank(or propped up by other bank like sbi did for yes bank) & money will be stuck for a few weeks before full withdrawal is allowed for any amount.

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Buying land would be the safest and best option. I know people who made got rich just investing in property for 20 years. 100x what was paid is not unknown especially around fast growing cities and even if its swamp land like in Chennai.. Even government is afraid to just take away land unlike bank accounts.. And the gains are far more than bank interest rates.. If you think you would need the money then buy smaller parcels of land so you can sell them easier.. But larger parcels will fetch far higher prices.. Thats because it is hard to get large pieces of land to build apartment blocks and fetch multiple of smaller parcels.. When they built the metro here, land went from under 10l to 70l because that is what the metro company gave and even far away land still went for 50l or so.. Thats 5x gains in a decade for smaller pieces… If the land can fit a large apartment block you can pretty much ask what you what..

Deal's Advocate Deal's Advocate
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Your money safe in Govt banks. You can park your money in postal department also for more safety.

Deal Lieutenant Deal Lieutenant
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…simply depositing is not safe….

…upto 5 lakh rs per bank is insured so go for 3-4 banks…

…decline debit card and online banking offers…and if you want to be safer then keep maximum money in short term fd…

Deal Lieutenant Deal Lieutenant
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just noticed that fd/rd opening creates a new account .. so does that mean fd and savings accounts are individually covered for 5 lakhs each?

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No, 5 lakh insurance limit is per bank per pan number unless it is joint acc/company acc/guardian acc with different variations.

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