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Business News/ Industry / Banking/  PNB recovers 278 crore as penalty for not maintaining minimum balance in bank accounts
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PNB recovers ₹278 crore as penalty for not maintaining minimum balance in bank accounts

PNB recovered this hefty amount from about 1 crore 27 lakh customers across the country in 2018-19
  • This was revealed after an RTI activist sought information from the PNB
  • PNB has recovered a total of ₹226.36 crore from ₹1,22,53,756 savings accounts. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/MintPremium
    PNB has recovered a total of 226.36 crore from 1,22,53,756 savings accounts. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

    Bhopal: The Punjab National Bank (PNB) has recovered 278.66 crore as penalty in the financial year 2018-19 from the poor account holders for not maintaining a minimum balance.

    This was revealed after an RTI activist in Madhya Pradesh's Neemuch district, Chandrashekhar Gaur sought information from the PNB on the amount recovered from the account holders in the last two financial years for not maintaining a minimum balance in savings and current account.

    This amount has been recovered from about 1 crore 27 lakh customers across the country.

    According to a PNB data, the penalty amount of 278.66 crore is 32% more than the amount recovered in the last financial year (2017-18).

    The bank has recovered a total of 226.36 crore from 1,22,53,756 savings accounts and 52.30 crore from fine accounts of 5,37,692 current accounts during the financial year 2018-19.

    Gaur said: "The penalty charged by a bank for not keeping the minimum amount in the accounts is a penalty on poverty.

    "It should be reviewed immediately in the larger public interest and recovery of all such penalty charges should be stopped with immediate effect," he added.


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    Published: 08 Aug 2019, 10:53 AM IST
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