Both public sector and private sector banks are levying charges on customers for not maintaining minimum balance in their savings bank account. In the year 2017-18, 21 public sector banks and three major private sector banks collected Rs.5,000 Crores from customers, for not maintaining a minimum balance in their accounts. Click on full story to know everything on minimum average balance in SB account.

If you have a current or a savings bank account and have not done any transactions through it for more than 24-months, then it will be classified as dormant. As per RBI guidelines, an account becomes dormant if a customer doesn't initiate transactions such as withdrawal of cash at a branch or ATM, payment by cheque, transfer of funds through Internet-banking, phone-banking or ATMs.