The government has decided to discontinue the Gold Monetisation Scheme (GMS) starting from Wednesday in view of the evolving market conditions, the finance ministry said. However, the banks may continue their short term gold deposit schemes (1-3 years), the ministry said in the statement on Tuesday. Till November 2024, approximately 31,164 kilograms of gold have been mobilised under GMS.
Banks and friendly neighbourhood jewellers can serve as good channels to provide liquidity for gold deposits with built-in incentives for them, suggests Harsh Roongta.
There are 350,000 jewellers, of which 13,000 are BIS-certified.
People can deposit idle gold with authorised agencies and take advantage of the price escalation of gold as well as earn interest on the deposit.
Gold loans can be released online or by bank transfers.
Banks can also allow the depositors to deposit their gold directly with the refiners.
India imported 967 tonnes of gold in 2014-15.
A workshop has been organised in Mumbai to come up with suggestions.
Only 21 tonnes of gold have been mobilised in the last eight years under the gold monetisation scheme (GMS) which was announced by the Government of India in November 2015. This could be considered as a failure as the scheme has undergone several changes with a revamped GMS announced in April 2021 to improve collections. This figure was released by the World Gold Council (WGC) on Wednesday in its report titled 'Gold Investment Market and Financialisation, in India gold market series'.
The scheme calls for banks, refineries and hallmarking centres to work together.
Gold monetisation scheme will help unlock value of gold.
The scheme is yet to take off.
Only three or four tonnes is estimated to have been mobilised under the scheme.
The Reserve Bank on Tuesday proposed greater flexibility to authorised persons to undertake foreign exchange transactions for hedging their exposures, balance sheet management and market-making, as well as to ease reporting obligations, after a review of the current regulations.
The Bureau of Indian Standards has certified 33 hallmarking centres in the country to act as collection and purity testing centres for the gold monetisation scheme.
Earning returns from an asset lying idle can be a good option in times of volatility.
The trust has around 35 kg of gold and will deposit the gold which is not in day-to-day use of the temple.
Conversion into jewellery during redemption would entail 15-20% wastage and making charges, rendering the scheme inefficient
Govt should take steps to monetise real estate investment schemes.
For India to monetise gold, it is not the institutional depositor that policymakers must target but the average retail depositor.
Deposit certificates will also be exempt from capital gains tax.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scheme to tap a pool of over 20,000 tonnes of gold held by households and temples.
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The RBI on Wednesday asked banks to provide an option to jewellery exporters and domestic manufacturers of gold jewellery to repay a part of Gold (metal) Loans (GML) in physical gold. As per the extant instructions, banks authorised to import gold and designated banks participating in Gold Monetisation Scheme, 2015 (GMS) can extend GML to jewellery exporters or domestic manufacturers of gold jewellery. GML are repaid in Indian rupees, equivalent to the value of the yellow metal borrowed.
Chirag Mehta, senior fund manager -- alternative investments at Quantum AMC, shares his views.
Gold schemes are offering attractive returns to investors.
This may free up resources for productive or lending purposes.
The RBI has issued guidelines and the government has notified it.
The temples are concerned about the religious sentiments of the devotees who donate gold ornaments in the name of the deities
Look at gold bonds or gold monetisation scheme instead of buying physical gold
The government plans to borrow Rs 6 lakh crore in this financial year.
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com speaks to common folk in Tamil Nadu about whether they will invest in Arun Jaitley's gold monetisation scheme. Their reactions will not make the Union finance minister happy.
India imports a staggering 1,000 tonnes of gold every year, draining out foreign exchange and putting pressure on the fiscal deficit.
Of the 1,000 surveyed by IIM-A, only five were aware about the government-sponsored gold schemes
In 5 years, the average demand for gold has been 895 tonnes annually.
Gold deposited by households to gold savings accounts will be used for auctioning, replenishment of RBI's gold reserves.
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