Master Direction on incentives for Currency Distribution & Exchange Scheme for bank branches including currency chests: The scheme provides financial incentives and service charges to banks for various activities. These include opening and operating currency chests in the North Eastern region and inaccessible areas of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, exchanging soiled notes, adjudicating mutilated notes, distributing coins (with an additional incentive for rural and semi- urban areas), and cash deposits by non-chest branches under the linkage scheme with currency chests. Currency chest holding banks are required to pass on the relevant incentives to their linked branches. (RBI Master Directions 136/2025 Dated 24/04/2025)