TNPSC Thervupettagam

Gold Monetisation Scheme (GMS)

January 12 , 2019 2171 days 887 0
  • The RBI has made changes with the Gold Monetisation Scheme (GMS) to allow
    • Charitable institutions,
    • Central government entities and
    • State government entities
 

to deposit gold under the GMS.

  • The ambit of the scheme was expanded to,
    • Bring out the unaccounted gold with the charitable institutions.
    • Enable the government agencies to deposit gold which they had confiscated.

Background

  • The GMS was launched with the tagline “Earn, while you secure”.
  • The scheme provides the dual benefit of interest (denominated in gold) on the gold deposited and an option of encashing the gold at maturity.
  • All the scheduled commercial banks except the RRBs are authorised to implement the scheme.

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