Will help those who can't ensure minimum balance
In a major move in the online payments segments, the RBI has decided to allow payment system operators to take direct membership of Centralised Payment Systems (CPS), such as RTGS and NEFT
Central payment system constitutes real-time gross settlement (RTGS) and national electronic fund transfer (NEFT).
RTGS for high-value transactions will become available round-the-clock from 00:30 hours Monday onwards, making India one of the few countries in the world to operate the system 24X7
RBI said that the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system, used for large value transactions, will be made available round-the-clock in the next few days
That the efforts towards digitization have been very successful is clear from the steady fall in the share of paper clearing
While NEFT was made a 24x7 system in December, 2019, RTGS will also become one in December, 2020
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Transactions via NEFT and RTGS were affected for almost 12 hours beginning Monday midnight
This could become a reality in a month or two, said a source
At present, the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) System is available for customer transactions from 0800 hours to 1800 hours
Before July 1, SBI used to charge between Re 1 and Rs 5 for transactions through NEFT, and Rs 5-50 for RTGS route
Currently, the RBI 'levies minimum charges' on banks for transactions routed through its RTGS and NEFT system
The minimum amount to be remitted through RTGS is Rs 2 lakh with no upper or maximum ceiling