New Delhi, Oct. 3 -- Imagine you had some money in a bank account which you have not operated for over two years. What will happen to that account? It would become inoperative, and recovering your funds would perhaps be a Herculean task, or at least it would appear so.

However, there are ways to gain access to your funds. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is organising outreach programmes to help you recover your funds from inoperative accounts. The banking regulator will conduct special camps on unclaimed assets in all districts across the country from October to December 2025.

Notably, money which is inoperative (inactive for more than two years and up to 10 years) in your bank is typically transferred to the RBI's DEA (Depositor Educat...