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Note: Master Circulars are a one-point reference of instructions issued by the Reserve Bank of India on a particular subject between July-June. These are issued on July 1 every year and automatically expire on June 30 next year. You can access the Master Circulars issued in previous years by using the Archives. For printing of these circulars please use the PDF version.
Banking Regulation
Jul 01, 2008
Master Circular - Branch Authorisation 182 kb
Master Circular - Bank Finance to Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) 28 kb
Master Circular - Credit Card Operations of Banks 46 kb
Master Circular - Disclosure in Financial Statements - Notes to Accounts 90 kb
Master Circular - Export Credit Refinance Facility 43 kb
Master Circular - Guarantees and Co-acceptances 74 kb
Master Circular - Guidelines for Relief Measures by Banks in Areas affected by Natural Calamities 40 kb
Master Circular - Housing Finance 70 kb
Master Circular - Instructions relating to Deposits held in FCNR(B) Accounts 53 kb
Master Circular - Interest Rates on Advances 41 kb
Master Circular - Interest Rates on Rupee Deposits held in Domestic, Ordinary Non-Resident (NRO) and Non-Resident (External) (NRE) Accounts 75 kb
Master Circular - Lending to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME)Sector 250 kb
Master Circular - Lending to Priority Sector 70 kb
Master Circular - Micro Credit 41 kb
Master Circular - Para-banking Activities 64 kb
Master Circular - Prudential Guidelines on Capital Adequacy and Market Discipline - Implementation of the New Capital Adequacy Framework 959 kb
Master Circular - Prudential Norms on Capital Adequacy-Basel I Framework 368 kb
Master Circular - Prudential Norms on Income Recognition, Asset Classification and Provisioning pertaining to Advances 234 kb
Master Circular – Branch Licensing - RRBs 109 kb
Master Circular – Exposure Norms 68 kb
Master Circular – Foreign Contribution ( Regulation ) Act, 1976 – Obligations of Banks in Regulating Receipt of Foreign Contributions by Associations / Organizations in India 32 kb
Master Circular – Frauds – Classification and Reporting 104 kb
Master Circular – Know Your Customer norms / Anti-Money Laundering Standards/ Combating of Financing of Terrorism /Obligation of banks under PMLA, 2002 176 kb
Master Circular – Prudential Norms for Classification, Valuation and Operation of Investment Portfolio by Banks 284 kb
Master Circular – Rupee / Foreign Currency Export Credit & Customer Service to Exporters 191 kb
Master Circular – Wilful Defaulters 55 kb
Master Circular- Loans and Advances – Statutory and Other Restrictions 199 kb
Co-operative Banking
Jul 01, 2008
Master Circular - Area of Operation, Branch Authorisation Policy, Opening/ Up- gradation of Extension Counters, ATMs and Shifting/Splitting/Closure of Offices 142 kb
Master Circular - Board of Directors 57 kb
Master Circular - Customer Service 164 kb
Master Circular - Exposure Norms and Statutory/Other Restrictions 101 kb
Master Circular - Finance For Housing Schemes 76 kb
Master Circular - Guarantees, Co-Acceptances& Letters of Credit 148 kb
Master Circular - Income Recognition, Asset Classification, Provisioning & Other Related Matters 364 kb
Master Circular - Inspection & Audit Systems in Primary (Urban)Co-op. Banks 92 kb
Master Circular - Interest Rates on Rupee Deposits 118 kb
Master Circular - Investments by Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks 216 kb
Master Circular - Maintenance of Statutory Reserves Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) and Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) 271 kb
Master Circular - Maintenance of Deposit Accounts 205 kb
Master Circular - Management of Advances 420 kb
Master Circular - Priority Sector Lending 91 kb
Master Circular - Prudential Norms on Capital Adequacy 105 kb
Master Circular – Frauds – Classification and Reporting 96 kb
Currency
Jul 01, 2008
Master Circular – Detection and Impounding of Counterfeit Notes 115 kb
Jul 03, 2008
Master Circular – Facility for Exchange of Notes and Coins 30 kb
Jul 01, 2008
Master Circular – Levy of Penal Interest for Delayed Reporting/Wrong Reporting/Non-Reporting of Currency Chest Transactions and Cases involving Shortages/Inclusion of Counterfeit Banknotes in Chest Balances/Chest remittances 15 kb
Financial Institutions
Jul 01, 2008
Master Circular - Disclosure Norms for Financial Institutions 48 kb
Master Circular - Exposure Norms for Financial Institutions 69 kb
Master Circular – Prudential Norms for Classification, Valuation and Operation of Investment Portfolio by FIs 154 kb
Master Circular- Resource Raising Norms for Financial Institutions 55 kb
Financial Markets
Jul 01, 2008
Master Circular – Call/Notice Money Market Operations 35 kb
Master Circular – Guidelines for Issue of Certificates of Deposit 31 kb
Master Circular – Guidelines for Issue of Commercial Paper 59 kb
Foreign Exchange
Jul 01, 2008
Master Circular – Direct Investment by Residents in Joint Venture (JV)/Wholly Owned Subsidiary (WOS) abroad 219 kb
Master Circular – Export of Goods and Services 381 kb
Master Circular – External Commercial Borrowings and Trade Credits 185 kb
Master Circular – Foreign Investment in India 455 kb
Master Circular – Import of Goods and Services 149 kb
Master Circular – Miscellaneous Remittances from India – Facilities for Residents 171 kb
Master Circular – Non-Resident Ordinary Rupee (NRO) Account 44 kb
Master Circular – Remittance Facilities for Non-Resident Indians/Persons of Indian Origin / Foreign Nationals 42 kb
Master Circular – Risk Management and Inter-Bank Dealings 155 kb
Government Business
Jul 01, 2008
Master Circular - Conduct of Government Business by Agency Banks - Payment of Agency Commission 38 kb
Master Circular - Disbursement of Pension by Agency Banks 64 kb
Master Circular – Appointment & delisting of Brokers and Payment of Brokerage on Relief / Savings Bonds 24 kb
Master Circular – Collection of Direct Taxes- OLTAS 746 kb
Master Circular – Nomination Facility in Relief / Savings Bonds 23 kb
Non-banking Supervision
Jul 01, 2008
Master Circular - Exemptions from the provisions of RBI Act, 1934 33 kb
Master Circular - Frauds – Future approach towards monitoring of frauds in NBFCs 66 kb
Master Circular – "Residuary Non-Banking Companies (Reserve Bank) Directions, 1987” 140 kb
Master Circular – “Miscellaneous Non-Banking Companies (Reserve Bank) Directions, 1977” 124 kb
Master Circular – “Mortgage Guarantee Companies Prudential Norms (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2008” and " Mortgage Guarantee Companies Investment (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2008" 45 kb
Master Circular – “Mortgage Guarantee Company (Reserve Bank) Guidelines, 2008” 31 kb
Master Circular – “Non-Banking Financial (Deposit Accepting or Holding) Companies Prudential Norms (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2007” 177 kb
Master Circular – “Non-Banking Financial (Non - Deposit Accepting or Holding) Companies Prudential Norms (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2007” 105 kb
Master Circular – “Non-Banking Financial Companies Acceptance of Public Deposits (Reserve Bank) Directions, 1998” 143 kb
Master Circular – “Non-Banking Financial Companies Auditor’s Report (Reserve Bank) Directions, 1998” 21 kb
Master Circular – “Reserve Bank of India (Non-Banking Financial Companies) Returns Specifications 1997” 17 kb
Master Circular – Directions/instructions issued to Securitisation Companies/ Reconstruction Companies 17 kb
Master Circular – The Securitisation Companies and Reconstruction Companies (Reserve Bank) Guidelines and Directions, 2003 48 kb
Primary Dealers
Jul 01, 2008
Master Circular - Capital Adequacy Standards and Risk Management Guidelines for standalone Primary Dealers 119 kb
Master Circular – Operational Guidelines to Primary Dealers 267 kb
Special Programmes
Jul 01, 2008
Master Circular - Credit facilities to Minority Communities 115 kb
Master Circular - Credit facilities to Scheduled Castes (SCs) & Scheduled Tribes (STs) 68 kb
Master Circular - New “ Self Employment Scheme for Rehabilitation of Manual Scavengers” (SRMS) 74 kb
Master Circular - Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) 65 kb
Master Circular - Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) 124 kb
 
 
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