RTGS to be unavailable today: All you should know
Mumbai, Apr 18: The RTGS for high-value transactions will remain unavailable for 14 hours from midnight of Saturday due technical upgrade to further improve the disaster recovery time of the system, the RBI said in a statment.
The popular National Electronic Funds Transfer or NEFT for fund transfers of up to Rs 2 lakh will continue to be operational as usual during this period.
A technical upgrade of RTGS, targeted to enhance the resilience and to further improve the Disaster Recovery Time of the RTGS system, is scheduled after the close of business of April 17, the Reserve Bank of India said on Monday.
"Accordingly, RTGS service will not be available from 00:00 hrs to 14.00 hrs on Sunday, April 18, 2021," the RBI said.
It
further
said
banks
may
inform
their
customers
to
plan
their
payment
operations
accordingly.
The
RTGS
facility
was
made
available
round-the-clock
on
all
days
from
December
14
last
year,
making
India
one
of
the
few
countries
to
operate
the
system
24x7.