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State to adopt cheque truncation system from Feb 15

JAIPUR: To expedite the payment process for contractors and other cheque transactions, the state government will switch to ‘Cheque Truncation System’ from February 15. Under CTS, presentation and payment of cheques are based on their electronic images thus doing away with the flow of the physical cheques issued by a drawer to the drawee branch. […]

Reserve Bank of India to do away with need to return paid government cheques to depts

Easing norms to enhance efficiency of cheque clearing system, the Reserve Bank will do away with the requirement of returning back paid government cheques to the concerned departments. Presently Cheque Truncation System (CTS) is used to clear cheques that facilitates presentation and payment of cheques without their physical movement. However, with regard to government cheques, […]

Five important rules about Cheques

The Reserve Bank of India recently implemented many new cheque rules to handle the rise in cheque related fraud cases. Some of them has been given below: 1) SMS alerts: The RBI asked banks to send an SMS alert to both payer and drawer when the cheque is received for clearing. Till now, SMS alerts […]