With a view to providing greater convenience to tax payers, the Reserve Bank of India said its offices and all designated branches of agency banks conducting government banking will keep their counters open up to 8.00 pm on March 31, 2018. Further, electronic transactions can be done till midnight of that day.
In order to facilitate government receipts and payments, the RBI said necessary arrangements have also been made to conduct special clearing operations across the country. Centralised payment systems such as the RTGS (real-time gross settlement) and NEFT (national electronic funds transfer) will also be operational for the above extended business hours.
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