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New Delhi: About 56.04 crore accounts with a deposit balance of Rs 2,62,858.50 crore have been opened under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY), out of which 4.82 crore accounts are zero-balance accounts (as on July 30), Minister of State for Finance, Pankaj Chaudhary, said on Tuesday. The number of PMJDY accounts opened since…
New Delhi: The number of bank accounts for the poor under the Prime Minister’s Jan Dhan Yojana have crossed the 55 crore mark with “most of these accounts belonging to people who had never even seen the door of a bank”, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Sunday. In a post on X, the Finance…
Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) is one of the most popular banking schemes in the country as it provides for one basic bank account for every unbanked adult. For this account, there is no need to maintain any balance and also no charges are levied on this account. In the account, a free-of-cost RuPay…
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday said that minimum account balance rules do not apply to PM Jan Dhan and basic saving accounts. “Minimum account balance rule does not apply to PM Jan Dhan accounts and basic savings accounts. It applies only to those bank accounts where customers are required to maintain…