How to open Sukanya Samriddhi Account at post offices and banks?

How to open sukanya samriddhi yojana account How to open Sukanya Samriddhi Account at post offices and banks?

In Jan-2015, Govt of India has announced Sukanya Samriddhi Account / Yojana, however, yet to provide relevant application forms till now. In recent budget speech, Finance Minister indicated that the returns from Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana is tax free. Obviously, parents are rushing to open account of Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana to post office and banks. In this article, I would provide details about how to open Sukanya Samriddhi Account / Yojana at post offices and banks. I would also provide relevant application form to open Sukanya Samriddhi Account. I have added a Sukanya Samriddhi Account in Hindi (translated through google transalation) at the end.

Also Read: Complete guide on Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana Account which provide tax free returns for a girl child

How to open Sukanya Samriddhi Account / Yojana account in post offices and banks?

While Govt. of India has announced more than 45 days back, application forms to open Sukanya Samriddhi Yojna account is still not available at post offices and banks. Recently post office has updated their website with Sukanya Samriddhi details, however, still the application form is not yet available. However govt. of India under its circular has provided relevant guidelines and application form. This was uploaded on post office website.

Download the relevant circular of Sukanya Samriddhi Account / Yojna application form here

How to open Sukanya Samriddhi Account / Yojana account in post offices and banks?

Currently only post offices are accepting to open Sukanya Samriddhi Account. Here is the process.

You can download Sukanya Samriddhi circular + application form here or approach post office for application form
Fill the application form
Carry Aadhar card copies + photographs of parents and girl child.
You can carry cash to make your first deposit. I am not sure whether Post Office would be accepting cheque for your first deposit.
You would be given passbook to operate the account.

In which banks, we can open account for Sukanya Samriddhi Account / Yojana?

You can open Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana account at major Public Sector Banks (PSU) listed below. However, they are yet to gear up their systems to open this account. I feel it may take another couple of weeks by the time PSU Banks would be ready with this.

State Bank of India (SBI)
Allahabad Bank
Andhra Bank
Bank of Baroda (BOB)
Bank of India (BoI)
Canara Bank
Central Bank of India
Corporation Bank
Dena Bank
IDBI Bank
Indian Bank
Punjab National Bank (PNB)
UCO Bank
United Bank of India

Also Read: Download Sukanya Samriddhi Account calculator in MS Excel format

You can also read: Sukanya Samriddhi Account in Hindi (PDF copy). This translation was done using Google Translation. For any errors while translating, pls apologize.

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