What is the requirement as to minimum paid-up capital

Solution

Section 11. Requirement as to minimum paid-up capital and reserves: (2) In the case of a banking company incorporated outside India-- (a) the aggregate value of its paid-up capital and reserves shall not be less than fifteen lakhs of rupees and if it has a place or places of business in the city of Bombay or Calcutta or both, twenty lakhs of rupees; and (b) the banking company shall deposit and keep deposited with the Reserve Bank either in cash or in the form of unencumbered approved securities, or partly in cash and partly in the form of such securities-- (i) an amount which shall not be less than the minimum required by clause (a); and (ii) as soon as may be after the expiration of each year, an amount calculated at twenty per cent of its profit for that year in respect of all business transacted through its branches in India, as disclosed in the profit and loss account prepared with reference to that year under section 29.