The authorities on Friday raised the interest rate on the five-year recurring deposit scheme to 6.7 per cent from 6.5 per cent for the December quarter. With this, the federal government retained the charges for all different small financial savings schemes. The interest rate on financial savings deposits has been retained at 4 per cent and on the one-year time period deposit at 6.9 per cent, in accordance to a finance ministry round.
The charges have been the identical through the September quarter. The interest rate on each the two-year and three-year time period deposits is 7 per cent whereas on the five-year time period deposit, the rate is 7.5 per cent.
Senior residents financial savings scheme will fetch an interest rate of 8.2 per cent. On the month-to-month earnings account scheme, the interest rate is 7.4 per cent whereas it’s 7.7 per cent on the National Savings Certificate and seven.1 per cent on the Public Provident Fund (PPF) scheme.
The interest rate on the Kisan Vikas Patra is 7.5 per cent and the investments will mature in 115 months.
As per the round, the interest rate on the favored woman little one scheme Sukanya Samriddhi Account has been retained at 8 per cent. The authorities notifies the interest rate on small financial savings schemes, majorly operated by submit workplaces, each quarter.
(with inputs from PTI)
