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Q64 (IAS/2026) Economy › Money, Banking & Inflation Official Key

Consider the following statements about the Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) in India:
1. NBFCs cannot accept demand deposits.
2. All the NBFCs operating in India have to be registered with the RBI.
3. NBFCs form part of the payment and settlement system and can issue cheque drawn on itself.
4. Deposit insurance facility of Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) is not available to the depositors of deposit taking NBFCs.

Result
Your answer: —  ·  Correct: A

Explanation

Statement 1 is correct: Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) are prohibited from accepting demand deposits (such as savings and current accounts) as they are not full-fledged banks.

Statement 2 is incorrect: Not all NBFCs operating in India are registered with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). To avoid dual regulation, certain categories of NBFCs are regulated by other authorities and exempted from RBI registration. For example, Venture Capital Funds and Merchant Banking companies are regulated by SEBI, Insurance companies by IRDAI, and Nidhi companies by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.

Statement 3 is incorrect: Unlike commercial banks, NBFCs do not form part of the payment and settlement system and cannot issue cheques drawn on themselves.

Statement 4 is correct: The deposit insurance facility provided by the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) covers deposits in commercial and cooperative banks but is not available to depositors of deposit-taking NBFCs.

Therefore, only statements 1 and 4 are correct.

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