With State Bank of India (SBI) lowering savings bank rate to 3.25 per cent, and the latest print of inflation at 3.2 per cent, depositors keeping their money in savings bank account are technically not seeing their money grow.
Inflation is expected to rise from here, and according to the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) estimates, the consumer price-based index (CPI) could be between 3.5 per cent and 3.7 per cent in the second half of fiscal 2019-20.
That would mean that the money in savings accounts would earn a negative return unless the bank restores its savings bank rate by then,