Govt revises savings returns

MG News | August 21, 2025 at 03:12 PM GMT+05:00

Add Mettisglobal as a Trusted Source on Google

0:00

August 21, 2025 (MLN): The government has revised profit rates across National Savings Schemes (NSS), with conventional short-term products offering higher returns and Islamic instruments seeing notable reductions.

The new rates take effect from August 21, 2025.

The Short Term Savings Certificate (STSC) now yields 10.36% annually, up 22 basis points (bps) from the previous rate.

Regular Income Certificates (RIC) have also moved higher by 12 bps to 10.80%.

Rates for Special Savings Certificates (SSC) and Special Savings Account (SSA) remain unchanged at 10.40%.

Defence Savings Certificates (DSC) saw a marginal cut of 7 bps, bringing the new rate to 11.54%.

The steepest decline was recorded in Shariah-compliant products.

Both the Sarwa Islamic Savings Account (SISA) and the Sarwa Islamic Term Account (SITA – 1 year) dropped by 44 bps, now offering 9.50% annually.

Copyright Mettis Link News

Related News

Name	Price/Vol	%Chg/NChg
KSE100	181,398.22 445.72M	0.49% 887.19
ALLSHR	109,207.09 1,229.93M	0.60% 651.22
KSE30	54,098.50 207.37M	0.48% 257.23
KMI30	258,982.79 206.69M	0.63% 1632.68
KMIALLSHR	70,885.99 618.36M	0.67% 471.82
BKTi	49,433.60 45.14M	-0.05% -23.01
OGTi	37,143.87 18.42M	0.59% 217.29

Symbol	Bid/Ask	High/Low

Name	Last	High/Low	Chg/%Chg
BITCOIN FUTURES	64,935.00	66,160.00 64,825.00	-765.00 -1.16%
BRENT CRUDE	79.10	79.57 77.75	0.14 0.18%
RICHARDS BAY COAL MONTHLY	123.00	0.00 0.00	7.50 6.49%
ROTTERDAM COAL MONTHLY	125.50	0.00 0.00	-0.40 -0.32%
USD RBD PALM OLEIN	1,157.50	1,157.50 1,157.50	0.00 0.00%
CRUDE OIL - WTI	75.37	76.06 74.09	0.10 0.13%
SUGAR #11 WORLD	14.24	14.33 14.22	-0.07 -0.49%