There are two ways to buy Government securities through Retail Direct platform:

1. By placing a bid in the primary auctions of dated G-Sec, T-Bills and SDLs (Non-competitive segment only, i.e., by only entering the desired amount of securities, without entering a price). For Sovereign Gold Bonds (SGBs), you may place a bid during the subscription windows announced by RBI on its website. For step-by-step details on bidding in auctions, you may refer to the User Manual on the Retail Direct Portal.

2. By placing a buy quote in the secondary market portal.

You can sell securities by placing an offer (sell) order in the secondary market portal. You must have the security in your account before you can sell that security.

1. After logging into the Primary Market Retail Direct platform, select the ‘Primary Market’ option beside the Dashboard, at the top of the page.

2. Select a security to bid from the ‘Auction Watch’ and enter the bid amount in the ‘Bid Entry’ window.

3. Individuals can fund their bid either at the time of bidding or at a later time, but before the closure of bidding/subscription window. Bids which are not funded as on the date of submission of bids to RBI will be cancelled.

4. For making payment for the bids, retail clients can use services like UPI (Transfer or Block) and Net Banking to transfer funds to a designated current account using Payment Gateways linked to the Online Portal.

5. Based on the allotment advice received as a part of the auction result, the allotments will be made to the individual investors.

6. In case of full allotment, each bidder will be allocated the entire Face Value for which bids were submitted. In case of partial allotment, a pro-rata allotment will be made to the bidder based on the partial allocation percentage determined in the auction.

For further details on the biding process, you may refer to the User Manual in the Help section of the Retail Direct Portal.

You can submit only one final bid per security in each primary auction of dated G-Sec, T-Bills and SDLs.

For dated G-Sec, T-Bills and SDLs, the amount per unit will be based on the indicative price of the security, the accrued interest and a mark-up.

For SGBs, the funding will be based on the Issue Price declared by RBI for that particular issue.

At the weighted average price of the successful bids in the auction.

No. Markup is not a fee charged by RBI. It is refundable depending upon the price at which the bids are allotted in the auction.

In the non-competitive segment of primary auctions, the price at which the securities are allotted is the weighted average price of the successful competitive bids in the auction. Since this weighted average price can be calculated only after the auction is over, the price of the security through the non-competitive segment is unknown during the time of bidding. To cover for this uncertainty, a markup is applied in case the weighted average price comes out to be higher.

The excess markup, i.e., the price charged at the time of placing the bid, minus the actual allotment price, will be refunded to your linked bank account within two business days from the date of auction.

No. However, if you want to use a different bank account, you can replace the linked bank account through the Retail Direct portal.