New Delhi, Nov 5 - State Bank of India (SBI) today said it will from 1
January accept only those cheques which conform to new standards. The
step has been taken as per the direction of the Reserve Bank of India.
To meet the objective, SBI has asked all its branches to issue cheques
only with uniform features conforming to CTS (Cheque Truncation System)
2010 standard cheques to their customers.
All other banks including private sector and foreign banks have also
started the process of phasing out of non-CTS cheques for migration to
this system.
For standardisation and enhancement of security features in cheque forms
and its migration to CTS 2010 standard, all branches of the bank will
now issue only CTS 2010 standard cheques to their customers, SBI said in
a public notice.
“Non CTS cheques will be out of circulation with effect from 31 December
2012 and will not be acceptable in clearing system also,” it said.
All the customers of the bank are requested to contact their branches
immediately to submit their requisition for issuance of CTS 2010
standard cheques and surrender their existing non-CTS cheques for
cancellation, it added.
The homogeneity in security features of CTS 2010 standard cheques will
act as deterrent against frauds, and the fixed field placement
specifications facilitate straight-through-processing at drawee banks’
end through the use of optical or image character recognition
technology.
The introduction of new cheque standards CTS 2010 was warranted on
account of several developments in the cheque clearing namely growing
use of multi-city and payable-at-par cheques at any branch of a bank,
increasing popularity of speed clearing for local processing of
outstation cheques and implementation of grid based CTS for image-based
cheque processing etc. PTI
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