Changes from December: The last month of 2024 is coming with multiple changes which will impact citizens and their daily life activities. There are few changes and updates which will be implemented from 1st December 2024. It will include Revision in gas cylinder rates, New updates for SBI credit card users, Bank holiday list in December 2024, Important changes for employees to get benefits of EPFO etc. So if you are also living in India then you should check these new updates and implements which will affect from 1st December 2024. It will help you to modify your knowledge and complete your pending tasks to prevent you from delaying services.
New gas cylinder rates from December 2024
LPG gas cylinder agencies usually release a list of the LPG at the start of the month. Agencies has increased the price of LPG gas cylinder for 16.5 rupees per 19 kilogram. Now individuals have to pay ₹1818.50 per 19-kg cylinder. However it is the price of commercial cylinder, but the domestic cylinder which are used in houses will not be affected from this changes and individuals will get their gas cylinders with their previous rates.
Apart from this, oil Agencies as also increases the price of ATF from ₹84,642.91 to ₹85,861.02 per Kilogram. So the increment in ATF will directly affect the rate of the flight prices in the country.
SBI credit card policy
State Bank of India is providing rewards to the users using SBI credit card for Transaction on digital gaming platform and other online payments. But now SBI has informed on the official website that they will not continue this reward system from first December 2024. So if you are using your SBI credit card to get more rewards then it will not help you to collect it now.
Delay in OTP
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India- TRAI is now implementing traceability rules for All telecom companies in the country. The authority has earlier presented this rule to all the telecom companies and asked them to follow it till 31 October 2024. But after that, companies request to the authority to increase deadline till November 2024. Now the deadline has completed, and companies have to implement the traceability rule for all the messages which they are sending to their customers.
It will help the government to trace spam messages. However it will not affect users and their activities, but as all the companies will follow this new rule and will Trace the message activities of the users to prevent them from spam, so it will affect on OTP delivery procedure and citizens have to wait for more to receive the OTP for a few days.
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Deadline to get EPFO benefits
Private sector employees are getting PF benefits according to the rules by the government of India. But beneficiaries have to activate their unique account number- UAN which are linked with their Aadhar cards to avail the upcoming benefits of EPFO activities including getting the PF, Pension, insurance, ELI etc. So if you are working in a company and have already EPFO account then you should activate your UAN number before the deadline of 30 November 2024 .
Banks will close on these days
In December 2024, banks in India will observe several holidays, resulting in at least 17 days of closures. Key nationwide holidays include Sundays on December 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29, along with the second and fourth Saturdays on December 14 and 28. Additionally, banks will be closed on December 25 for Christmas, a national holiday.
- December 3 (Tuesday): Feast of St. Francis Xavier (Panaji)
- December 12 (Thursday): Pa-Togan Nengminja Sangma (Shillong)
- December 18 (Wednesday): Death Anniversary of U SoSo Tham (Shillong)
- December 19 (Thursday): Goa Liberation Day (Panaji)
- December 24 (Tuesday): Christmas Eve (Aizawl, Kohima, Shillong)
- December 25 (Wednesday): Christmas (Nationwide)
- December 26 (Thursday): Christmas Celebration (Aizawl, Kohima, Shillong)
- December 27 (Friday): Christmas Celebration (Kohima)
- December 30 (Monday): U Kiang Nangbah (Shillong)
- December 31 (Tuesday): New Year’s Eve/ Lossong/ Namsoong (Aizawl, Gangtok)
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So you should update your details and complete your task before bank holidays to prevent you form delaying your tasks. Bank holidays will only affect your physical banking activities related to the branch such as Bank visit, meeting with manager etc, but you can use all internet banking activities on holidays too using their mobile applications.
