Want To Keep Your Money In Post Office? Check Out Latest Interest Rates

Did you know you can open a savings or fixed/recurring deposit account at a post office? India Post provides a range of banking and remittance services, including the nine types of government-run small savings schemes. These nine schemes include the post office savings account, which is a savings account that can be opened with a minimum deposit of Rs 500. The government keeps revising the interest rates applicable to these small savings schemes from time to time. For the current quarter, which ends on December 31, these savings schemes provide interest rates to the tune of 4-7.6 per cent.

Did you know you can open a savings or fixed/recurring deposit account at a post office? India Post provides a range of banking and remittance services, including the nine types of government-run small savings schemes. These nine schemes include the post office savings account, which is a savings account that can be opened with a minimum deposit of Rs 500. The government keeps revising the interest rates applicable to these small savings schemes from time to time. For the current quarter, which ends on December 31, these savings schemes provide interest rates to the tune of 4-7.6 per cent.

Here are the current interest rates applicable to small savings schemes:

Of these schemes, the time deposit or term deposit scheme comes in four maturity options, ranging from one to five years.