Barely six months since the usage of other bank ATM’s was allowed for free — the rules have now changed.

Effective 15th October, 2009 customers will be allowed to withdraw a maximum of Rs. 10,000 per transaction from non Bank ATMs. What this means is, savings Account customers will be allowed 5 free cash withdrawals per month on non Bank ATMs. A charge of Rs. 20 per transaction will be levied for additional ATM cash withdrawal on non Bank ATMs beyond the first 5 transactions.

So its clear that as long as the end customer was paying the per transaction charges earlier the banks were happy — but once they had to start paying the fee from their own pocket to the other bank (whose ATM was used to withdraw cash) it had begun to pinch them hard.

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