Eligibility

• Any individual owning gold ornaments/Jewelry/Coins, either singly or jointly

• Pawnbrokers, Jewelers & Jewelry shop-owners are not eligible for Gold Loan. • Loans can be granted against Gold Ornaments/Jewelry and specially minted pure Gold Coins  sold by our Bank/other Banks. The weight of the coin(s) should not exceed 50 grams per  customer.

Purpose of Gold Loan

• Agriculture: Gold loans for meeting crop production expenses and/or for creation of assets to  be used in farming operation or for allied agricultural activities like diary, poultry, fisheries etc  and other agri related activities.

• loans for day to day working capital requirement of business unit, petty trade, purchase of  business tools, furnishing of business premises, purchase of furniture & fixtures etc.. • Consumption loan: Gold loan for consumption purposes are sanctioned to meet unforeseen  expenses / contingencies / expenses for medical treatment/ for marriage and other ceremonies  / expenses, for education/business needs, etc.

Assessment of loan amount

75%of the appraised value of Gold Ornaments of 22 carat fineness; OR

Amount eligible based on the per gram rate fixed by the bank for 22 carat

fineness OR

Loan amount assessed based on scale of finance for crop production/ actual

amount of credit requirement  for other than crop production, as the case may

be - whichever is lower.

• Specially minted gold coins sold by any Bank (24 carat fineness) shall be treated as gold  ornaments for loan assessment purpose.

Nature of facility

• Loans against gold ornaments can be sanctioned in the form of Union Green Card with  operative limit up to 5 years, Short Term Crop Loan, Cash Credit (Pledge), Secured Overdraft,  Demand Loan or Term Loan Repayable in Installments with tenure up to 3 years.

Maximum

amount of Loan

• Maximum of Rs.20.00 Lakh for priority sector loans including agriculture purposes • Maximum of Rs.25.00 Lakh for non priority sector loans.

Repayment

period for Gold Loan

• Agriculture: The repayment period may be fixed as per anticipated harvesting and marketing  period for the crops for which loan is granted. For demand loan, repayment period should be  fixed based on the income generation coinciding with harvest and marketing time, total period  not exceeding 18 months.

• For term loan, the repayment period of the loan should be fixed in line with the term loan purposes but not exceeding three years coinciding with harvesting and marketing  season//generation of income from the activity.

• Non-Agriculture purposes: Tenor of loans shall not exceed 12 months from date of sanction.

Forms & Documents

• Appropriate DPN note, Gold loan pledge form, Letter of continuity, Hypothecation of  crops/assets –agriculture, Hypothecation of assets other than agriculture ,Letter of general lien  and setoff, undertaking from borrower / Guarantor for disclosure to CIBIL and any other  document stipulated in sanction.