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RBI advice banks to optimise & expand use of National Electronic Clearing Service (NECS)
d. Efficient handling of inward NECS transactions. Banks should put in place proper interfaces for straight-through-processing of inward files received from the Clearing House.
e. Afford NECS credit to customer accounts without delay. Uncredited items, if any, should be reported back to the Clearing House within the prescribed time limit.
f. Avoid practices that delay and burden the system. Sponsor banks should ensure that user institutions do not include in the input files, transactions that have earlier been returned for reasons account-closed or no-such-account. Service branches also need to take due care while processing inward. There would be no justification for return of NECS-credits that would have otherwise been duly credited in local-ECS.
g. Strengthen infrastructure at the Service Branch in Mumbai not only in terms of adequacy of telephone lines, network, computers, etc., but also by way of making the branch core-banking-enabled, providing access to customer accounts at other core-banking-enabled branches and the like. To handle products that are national in character like (NECS and NEFT), the service branch needs also to be equipped with adequate manpower - both in terms of number and quality. Once Cen-ECS and local-ECS get subsumed in NECS, there would be automatic rationalisation of overall manpower requirements.
h. Be in readiness to participate in NECS-Debit, which requires a centralised mandate management system at banks’ end. Banks should initiate steps to store and retrieve mandates electronically, with automated core-banking interface.
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