Tuesday, August 5, 2014

India Post may apply for payments bank licence

........If post offices are converted into banks, they will have to offer competitive interest rates to depositors. Besides it remains to be seen whether all bank deposits are offered tax treatment, similar to post office savings, once the postal department is given a banking licence. While the RBI did not grant a banking licence to India Post earlier this year, it said that the postal department and the government should look at the issue separately...........

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