Page 2 - Small Savings Schemes

What are Small Savings Schemes - types, returns and interest rates

Amid uncertainty in the equity-linked savings instruments, government's small savings schemes offer safe and assured returns. What are these schemes? Let us understand in this explainer

TMS Ep71: Parliament, value stocks, Web 3.0, Small Savings Schemes

Did elections derail govt's plan to usher in reforms via Parliament? Worst over for economic recovery-related stocks? What is Web 3.0? What are Small Savings Schemes? All answers here

Govt keeps interest rates on small savings schemes unchanged for Q3FY22

Public Provident Fund (PPF) and National Savings Certificate (NSC) will continue to carry an annual interest rate of 7.1 per cent and 6.8 per cent, respectively

Govt keeps interest rates on small savings schemes unchanged for Sept qtr

The schemes will continue to fetch small investors better rates than other fixed income avenues such as bank fixed deposits

Tweak your portfolio to help it meet challenges of the new financial year

Check whether you saved adequately during the previous financial year, your asset allocation is in sync, and you have adequate life and health insurance

Hike in NPS investment management fee need not be a deterrent: Experts

Invest if you want tax benefit and are okay with long lock-in and 40% annuitisation

Move quickly and lock into current small-saving rates wherever you can

However, do so only if your asset allocation requires you to invest more on the debt side, and you are comfortable with the long lock-in

Poll-bound West Bengal contributes highest to small savings schemes

West Bengal is the midst of a high-pitched assembly election

Akhilesh Yadav slams govt on issue of small savings interest rate

SP's supremo Akhilesh Yadav asked the BJP government at the Centre to withdraw forever any decision on slashing interest rates on small savings, saying its decisions have created fear among people

Best of BS Opinion: Changing a monolith, bare necessities for India & more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

'Was an oversight': Govt drops reduction in interest rates on small savings

Government had announced a cut in small savings rates by 50-100 basis points for the first quarter of the new financial year.

Rate cut on small savings: Elections, WEF report linked to fastest recall

West Bengal leads the annual state wise table of contribution to small savings at 15.09 per cent. For the year FY18, Tamil Nadu is fifth in the small savings pecking order at 4.8 per cent

Shades of status quo

Reversal of interest rate cut should have been avoided

Gehlot targets govt for flip-flop over rates on small savings scheme

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday asked Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to explain to the nation the flip-flop over interest rates on small saving schemes. Sitharaman on Thursday morning said the government will rollback a steep interest rate cut on small saving schemes such as PPF and NSC, saying it was an oversight. "The Finance Minister must explain the flip-flop to the nation why first such anti-people decision was taken to cut the interest rates on small saving schemes including PPF & NSC and then taken back?" Gehlot said in a tweet. "Is the government playing a very cruel prank on common people on April 1 by announcing interest rate cuts at night and then next morning reversing the decision," he asked. The government's decision to rollback citing "oversight" was taken hours after announcing the steepest cut in the rate on small savings schemes. Interest rate on Public Provident Fund (PPF) was reduced by 0.7 per cent to 6.4 per cent while National Savings

Are you running 'circus' or govt: Cong to FM on small savings scheme news

The opposition party also said Sitharaman had no moral right to continue as the finance minister

Top headlines: Interest on small savings cut; inflation target unchanged

From cutting interest rates on small savings schemes to Cabinet okays Rs 10,900 cr PLI for food processing units, here are top headlines this morning

Govt cuts interest rates on small savings schemes effective from April 1

The rate of interest on PPF has declined from 7.1 per cent earlier to 6.4 per cent now

New TDS rules for PPF, other small savings schemes: Check details here

Rules apply only for cash withdrawals of non-ITR filers

Govt cuts interest rates on small savings schemes effective from April 1

For the first time interest rate on savings deposits has been reduced by 0.5% to 3.5% from the existing 4% annually

How NSSF could morph from a rainy-day fund into a huge burden for the govt

Costlier loans from NSSF, at 7.4% interest rate, will occupy more than 10% share in govt's outstanding public debt soon, all to give the small saver a higher interest rate than the market