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What is a Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account (BSBDA)?
The Basic Savings Bank Deposit Account (BSBDA) is a Savings account opened with a bank. Then how is it different from any other Savings Account? Well it is Savings account that does not require a minimum balance and which would offer certain minimum facilities, free of charge.
BSBDA was introduced by RBI in 2012 as a measure for enhancing financial inclusion among the economically weaker sections of the society. BSBDA replaced the earlier “No-frills account” (also referred to as the “Zero Balance account”) which was started in 2005.
The key features of BSBDA are as follows:
- Applicability (i.e. where can a BSBDA be opened?)
- All Scheduled Commercial Banks (including RRBs)
- All Payments Banks
- All Small Finance Banks
- All Local Area Banks
- All Urban Cooperative Banks
- All State/Central Cooperative Banks
- Eligibility (who can open a BSBDA?)
- Anyone can open this account with a bank. BSBDA should be considered as a normal banking service available to all customers, through branches.
- The account opened under PM Jan Dhan Yojana is a BSBDA.
- Facilities available – without any requirement of minimum balance
- Deposit of cash at bank branch as well as ATMs/CDMs
- Receipt/ credit of money through any electronic channel or by means of deposit /collection of cheques drawn by Central/State Government agencies and departments
- No limit on number and value of deposits that can be made in a month
- Minimum of four withdrawals in a month, including ATM withdrawal
- ATM Card or ATM-cum-Debit Card
Banks are free to provide additional value-added services, including issue of cheque book, beyond the above minimum facilities, which may/may not be priced (in a non-discriminatory manner) subject to disclosure.
- Conditions for holding a BSBDA
- The holders of BSBDA will not be eligible for opening any other savings bank deposit account in that bank.
- Customers having an existing savings bank deposit account in that bank, will be required to close it within 30 days from the date of opening a BSBD Account.
- Customer can have only one BSBD Account across all the banks
- BSBDA can also be opened with simplified KYC norms. However, if BSBDA is opened on the basis of Simplified KYC, the accounts would additionally be treated as “BSBDA-Small Account”
It is BSBDA account that is opened with simplified KYC and is therefore subject to the following conditions:
- Total credits in such accounts should not exceed one lakh rupees in a year.
- Maximum balance in the account should not exceed 50,000 at any time
- The total of debits by way of cash withdrawals and transfers will not exceed 10,000 in a month
- No remittances from abroad allowed to be credited to Small Accounts without completing normal KYC formalities
- Valid for a period of 12 months (extendable by another 12 months if the person provides proof of having applied for an Officially Valid Document).
- Small Accounts can only be opened at CBS linked branches of banks or at such branches where it is possible to manually monitor the fulfilment of the conditions.
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