RBI/2024-25/124 CO.DGBA.GBD.No.S1003/42-01-029/2024-2025 March 17, 2025 All Agency Banks Madam/ Dear Sir, Annual Closing of Government Accounts – Transactions of Central / State Governments – Special Measures for the Current Financial Year (2024-25) All Government transactions done by agency banks for the Financial Year 2024-25 must be accounted for within the same financial year. Accordingly, the following arrangements are put in place to report and account for Government transactions for March 31, 2025: (a) All agency banks should keep all branches dealing with Government receipts and payments open for over the counter transactions related to Government transactions up to the normal working hours on March 31, 2025.

RBI/2024-25/122 CO.DGBA.GBD.No.S954/42-01-029/2024-2025 February 28, 2025 All Agency Banks Madam/Dear Sir, Reporting and Accounting of Central Government transactions for March 2025

RBI/2024-25/103 CO.DGBA.GBD.No.S770/42-01-029/2024-2025 January 03, 2025 All Agency Banks Madam/Dear Sir, Status of March 30, 2025 for Government transactions through integration with e-Kuber The ‘e-Kuber’ which is the Core Banking Solution platform of RBI for Government and other payments does not process any Government transactions on Global holidays (which are 26th January, 15th August, 2nd October, all 2nd and 4th Saturdays of a month and on all Sundays). It is observed that March 30, 2025 falls on a Sunday. The Office of Controller General of Accounts, Government of India has advised that in order to account for all the Government transactions relating to receipts and payments in the financial year 2024-25 itself, March 30, 2025 (Sunday) be marked as a working day for the Government transactions.

RBI/2023-24/138 CO.DGBA.GBD.No.S1252/42-01-029/2023-2024 March 22, 2024 All Agency Banks Madam/Dear Sir, Annual Closing of Government Accounts – Transactions of Central / State Governments – Special Measures for the Current Financial Year (2023-24) All Government transactions 

RBI/2023-24/136 CO.DGBA.GBD.No.S1234/31-12-010/2023-2024 March 13, 2024 All Agency banks Madam / Dear Sir, Cut-off time for uploading of GST, ICEGATE and TIN 2.0 luggage files

RBI/2023-24/135 DGBA.GBD.No.S1217/42-01-029/2023-2024 March 13, 2024 All Agency Banks Madam/Dear Sir, Reporting and Accounting of Central Government transactions for March 2024

RBI/2023-24/65
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October 03, 2023

All Agency Banks

Madam/Dear Sir,

Status of March 31, 2024 for Government transactions through integration with e-Kuber

The ‘e-Kuber’ which is the Core Banking Solution platform of RBI for Government and other payments does not process any Government transactions on Global holidays (which are 26th January, 15th August, 2nd October, all 2nd and 4th Saturdays of a month and on all Sundays). It is observed that March 31, 2024 falls on a Sunday. The office of Controller General of Accounts, Government of India has advised that in order to account for all the Government transactions relating to receipts and payments in the financial year 2023-24 itself, it has been decided that March 31, 2024 (Sunday) be marked as a working day for the Government transactions so that all the Government transactions through integration with e-Kuber are processed on March 31, 2024 and accounted for in the financial year 2023-24 itself for arriving the cash balance of Government of India as on March 31, 2024.

2. Also, the luggage files from banks for transferring the data related to Government transactions to RBI would also be accepted by e-Kuber system on March 31, 2024 for accounting of the same in the account for the financial year 2023-24.

Yours faithfully

(Indranil Chakraborty)
Chief General Manager

RBI/2023-24/43 CO.DGBA.GBD.No.S295/31-12-010/2023-2024 June 14, 2023 All Agency banks Madam / Dear Sir Agency Commission for collection of indirect taxes through ICEGATE payment gateway Please refer to Para 21 of our Master Circular on Conduct of Government Business by Agency Banks - Payment of Agency Commission dated April 1, 2023 related to claiming of agency commission. 2. Since certain transactions related to collection of indirect taxes through ICEGATE (CEP) paym

RBI/2022-23/186 CO.DGBA.GBD.No.S1490/42-01-029/2022-2023 March 21, 2023 All Agency Banks Dear Sir / Madam Annual Closing of Government Accounts – Transactions of Central / State Governments – Special Measures for the Current Financial Year (2022-23) All government transactions done by agency banks for the Financial Year 2022-23 must be accounted for within the same financial year. Accordingly, the following arrangements are put in place to report and account for Gover

RBI/2022-23/184 DGBA.GBD.No.S1469/42-01-029/2022-2023 March 16, 2023 All Agency Banks Madam/Dear Sir, Reporting and Accounting of Central Government transactions for March 2023 Please refer to Circular DGBA.GBD.No.S1422/42-01-029/2021-2022 dated February 24, 2022 advising the procedure to be followed for reporting and accounting of Central Government transactions (including CBDT, CBIC, Departmentalized Ministries and Non-Civil Ministries) at the Receiving/Nodal/Focal