To facilitate high-value fund transfers, the RBI has announced an extension of timings for customer transactions through “Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS)”.
From June 1, 2019 the transaction timings are extended by one and half hours - 4:30 PM to 06 PM.
‘Real Time’ means the processing of instructions at the time they are received.
‘Gross Settlement’ means that the settlement of funds transfer instructions occurs individually not in batches unlike NEFT.
There is “No upper limit” on the value of funds that can be transferred via the RTGS system.