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Existing cheque clearing arrangement will continue till year end

Existing cheque clearing arrangement will continue till year end Good news for those having non CTS cheques left for clearing. RBI has declared that the existing cheque clearing system will continue till year end. Non-CTS-2010 cheques (Cheque Truncation System) will continue to be cleared even after the deadline of July 31, 2013. However,banks must continue to make […]

Cheque Bounce may no longer put you in Jail

The government will soon make an amendment in the Negotiable Instruments (NI) Act for cheque bounce that will restrict banks from dragging a person to court. All such cases, after the changes come into effect, will have to be decided only through arbitration, conciliation or settlement by Lok Adalats. It is estimated that more than […]

RBI’s Initiative in Cheque Truncation System – 2010

The RBI set up a working group on Cheque Truncation and e-cheques, which studied the Truncation and Imaging processes of other countries and came out with the following recommendations:- In India the cheques should be truncated at the presenting bank itself and there should not be any amount based restriction. An electronic image based model will be […]