By means of PTI
NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena chief Priyanka Chaturvedi has advised Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to offer a unique rate of interest on financial institution mounted deposits for senior electorate and take away the cap on investments in postal financial savings scheme and public provident fund.
In a letter to Sitharaman, Chaturvedi stated decrease rates of interest on financial savings schemes have left senior electorate with decrease retirement budget and put a serious pressure on their wallet, specifically right through the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The Union Finances gives the federal government this chance to get to the bottom of those issues and supply reduction to the folk of our nation,” Chaturvedi, a Rajya Sabha member from Maharashtra, stated.
“Lately, rates of interest are extraordinarily low bearing in mind the prime inflation. Rates of interest in mounted deposits over time has come down from 12 in line with cent to 5 in line with cent, publish workplaces financial savings have come right down to round seven in line with cent with a cap of Rs 15 lakh on investments,” she stated.
“In case of PPF, it has a cap of Rs 1.5 lakh simplest once a year. Additional, all of those barring the PPF are taxable,” she stated, including reducing of rates of interest has made it tough for senior electorate and retired staff to have enough source of revenue to run their families.
Chaturvedi requested Sitharaman to offer a unique interest rate on financial institution mounted deposits retaining the troubles of senior electorate and retired individuals.
She additionally asked the finance minister to take away the cap on publish workplace financial savings scheme and PPF to permit a gradual supply of safe source of revenue to senior electorate retaining in thoughts the emerging price of dwelling.
The Rajya Sabha member stated the problem of decline in rates of interest on small financial savings schemes reminiscent of PPF, senior electorate financial savings scheme, nationwide financial savings certificates and publish workplace financial savings scheme had been dropped at her realize via senior electorate, non-government retired staff and their associations.
