Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday said that Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) facility will not be available for at least 14 hours on 18 April.
“A technical upgrade of RTGS, targetted to enhance resilience & to further improve the disaster recovery time of RTGS system, is scheduled after close of biz of Apr 17. Accordingly, RTGS service won’t be available from 00:00 hrs to 14.00 hrs on Sunday, 18 April,” the central bank said in a statement.
“Member banks may inform their customers to plan their payment operations accordingly,” it further added. “RTGS Members will continue to receive event update(s) through system broadcasts,” the central bank mentioned.
The National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) system will continue to be operational as usual during this period, RBI said.
Last week, the central bank extended the NEFT and RTGS facilities to non-bank payment system operators. Till now, only banks were allowed to use RTGS and NEFT payments facilities.
Now, Prepaid Payment Instrument (PPI) issuers, card networks, White label ATM operators and Trade Receivables Discounting System (TReDS) platforms can use NEFT and RTGS modes.
Surjitt Sahani
