CDNS reaches at Rs 530 billion free deposits

The Central Directorate of National Savings (CDNS) had compensated an amount of Rs 258 billion to its investors after the termination of major prize bonds of Rs 40,000 and also rewarded the amount of Rs 101 billion in recent cancellation of prize bonds of Rs 25000, senior official of CDNS told APP here on Tuesday.

He said that the federal government had recently suspended the prize bonds of Rs 25,000 and had given a six-month deadline to investors to en-cash their savings of Rs 160 billion.

The government has already canceled prize bonds of Rs 40,000 and CDNS repaid to the investors the encashment worth of Rs 158 billion in previous FY 2019-20, he said.

The CDNS has set Rs 249 billion annual collection target for the year 2020-21 as compared to Rs 352 billion for the previous year's 2019-20 to enhance savings and promote saving culture in the country.

The CDNS had set Rs 352 billion annual collection target for the year 2019-20 as compared to Rs 350 billion for the previous year's 2018-19, he said.

The directorate had also revised and increased the gross target of Rs1570 billion for the fiscal year 2019-20, he said. Replying to a question on current revision of CDNS certificate profit rates,, he said CDNS has maintained the same interest rate on the savings certificates investment due to the market situation and as per Pakistan Investment Bonds (PIB) policy decision.

He informed that the CDNS interest rates were linked with the policy of PIB, set by State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). He said the rate of profit on Defense Saving, regular income saving, special saving and short-term certificates remained the same.