Friday, July 19, 2013

How Humble Post Offices Can Save the Rupee - Charan Singh

............One such avenue could be inflation-indexed small saving instruments (IISSI) to be sold through the network of more than 1,55,000 post offices, and bank branches. These IISSI could be an extension of existing instruments like small savings accounts, recurring deposits or public provident funds with a regular interest reset clause, as envisaged in the ‘Report on System of Administered Interest Rates’ (Chairman: YV Reddy, 2001). Existing national savings certificates (NSC) could have an inflation-indexed option or even introduction of inflation indexed special bearer bonds. And more importantly.................

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