The country’s largest public sector bank i.e. State Bank of India (SBI) has given a big blow to its crores of customers. Bank SBI has increased its Marginal Cost Based Lending Rate ie MCLR by 10 basis points for all tenures.
Now taking a loan from the bank will become expensive. The new rates of the bank have come into effect from February 15, 2023. Explain that after increasing the repo rate, many banks have increased MCLR.
Most consumer loans are based on a one-year marginal cost based lending rate. In such a situation, personal loan, auto and home loan can become expensive due to increase in MCLR. Now you will have to pay more EMI than before on taking the loan. This will have a direct impact on the pockets of the customers.
New MCLR rates
SBI has increased the overnight MCLR rate to 7.95 percent, MCLR rate for 1 month to 8.10 percent and MCLR rate for 3 months to 8.10 percent. At the same time, the bank’s MCLR rate increased by 10 basis points to 8.40 percent for 6 months, MCLR from 8.40 percent to 8.50 percent for 1 year, MCLR from 8.50 percent to 8.60 percent for 2 years and MCLR from 8.60 percent to 8.70 percent for 3 years. Is.
What is MCLR?
Significantly, MCLR is a method developed by the Reserve Bank of India, on the basis of which banks determine the interest rate for loans. Before that, all the banks used to fix the interest rate for the customers on the basis of base rate only.
Increase in repo rate for the sixth time in a row
Let us tell you that on February 8, RBI has once again increased the repo rate by 25 basis points. This is the increase in the repo rate for the sixth consecutive time. After the monetary policy meeting, Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das said that the pressure of rising inflation in the world is also on India and to overcome it completely, it has become necessary to increase the interest rates of loans once again. However, this time the repo rate is being increased by only 0.25 percent.
