Key facts
What the official sources publish
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Maximum financeRetail: ₹25,000 to ₹25 lakh per borrower. PNB Swarnim agriculture: ₹10,000 to ₹25 lakh per borrower.Effective 5 Aug 2026View source
The current PNB table states retail minimum ₹0.25 lakh and maximum ₹25 lakh, and Swarnim minimum ₹10,000 and maximum ₹25 lakh.
- Source
- PNB Scheme for Advance Against Gold Jewellery/Gold Ornaments — current terms
- Page / section
- Quantum of Finance, retail and Swarnim columns
- Accessed
- 8 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Margin by facilityRetail: 32% for bullet demand loan and 28% for EMI term loan or overdraft. Swarnim agriculture: 15% at sanction.Effective 5 Aug 2026View source
The product page lists retail margins by facility and one Swarnim margin.
- Source
- PNB Scheme for Advance Against Gold Jewellery/Gold Ornaments — current terms
- Page / section
- Margin table
- Accessed
- 8 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Repayment term by facilityRetail: bullet demand loan up to 12 months; EMI term loan up to 36 months; overdraft has a 12-month sanction period subject to annual review and a published repayment ceiling of 36 months subject to review. Swarnim: bullet up to 12 months; monthly EMI up to 36 months; overdraft sanctioned for 12 months subject to annual renewal, with interest serviced as due.Effective 5 Aug 2026View source
The page separately states sanction period and repayment period; both are preserved rather than collapsed into one number.
- Source
- PNB Scheme for Advance Against Gold Jewellery/Gold Ornaments — current terms
- Page / section
- Nature of Facility and Repayment, retail and Swarnim columns
- Accessed
- 8 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Upfront / processing feeRetail: 0.30% of loan amount + GST or ₹500 + GST, whichever is higher; documentation is nil. Swarnim: up to ₹50,000, nil; above ₹50,000 to ₹2.5 lakh, ₹500 + GST; above ₹2.5 lakh, 0.25% + GST capped at ₹5,000 + GST; documentation is nil.Effective 5 Aug 2026View source
The scheme page publishes different amount thresholds by segment; both are retained as printed. The retail tariff independently confirms the retail fee and nil documentation charge.
- Source
- PNB Scheme for Advance Against Gold Jewellery/Gold Ornaments — current terms
- Page / section
- Charges, retail and Swarnim columns
- Accessed
- 8 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Loan typeGold loanView source
The official product name identifies this as “PNB Gold Loan”.
- Source
- PNB Gold Loan — official product page
- Page / section
- Official product name and loan classification
- Accessed
- 30 Aug 2026
- Confidence
- high
Interest rate by segment and sanction amountRetail: up to ₹10 lakh, RLLR +0.85 percentage points = 9.20% p.a.; above ₹10 lakh, RLLR +0.90 points = 9.25% p.a. Swarnim agriculture: up to ₹2.5 lakh, RLLR +0.50 points = 8.85% p.a.; above ₹2.5 lakh, RLLR +0.75 points = 9.10% p.a. Combined percentages are arithmetic using PNB RLLR 8.35% effective 8 October 2026, not separately quoted offer rates.Effective 8 Oct 2026View source
PNB publishes the retail and Swarnim amount-band spreads on the product page and publishes 8.35% separately. The four combined percentages are shown only as arithmetic from those official components.
- Source
- PNB gold-loan spread table and current benchmark
- Page / section
- Product page, Rate of Interest; 8.35% effective 8 October 2026
- Accessed
- 8 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Current rate benchmarkPNB RLLR is 8.35% effective 8 October 2026. The gold-loan rate adds the segment and sanction-amount spread published by PNB.Effective 8 Oct 2026View source
The published is separate from the product spread; it is not itself the all-in gold-loan rate.
- Source
- PNB Interest Rates on Advances — current benchmark
- Page / section
- table effective 8 October 2026, read with Gold Loan product-page spreads
- Accessed
- 8 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Loan amountRetail: ₹25,000 to ₹25 lakh per borrower. PNB Swarnim agriculture: ₹10,000 to ₹25 lakh per borrower.Effective 5 Aug 2026View source
The current PNB table states retail minimum ₹0.25 lakh and maximum ₹25 lakh, and Swarnim minimum ₹10,000 and maximum ₹25 lakh.
- Source
- PNB Scheme for Advance Against Gold Jewellery/Gold Ornaments — current terms
- Page / section
- Quantum of Finance, retail and Swarnim columns
- Accessed
- 8 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Eligible borrowersRetail gold loan: an individual resident of India. PNB Swarnim: farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs, including tenant farmers, oral lessees and sharecroppers, and others engaged in agriculture or allied activities that qualify under RBI, Government of India or NABARD rules.Effective 5 Aug 2026View source
The current webpage names the retail resident-individual segment and the agricultural borrower groups; documentary conditions in the Swarnim scheme sheet remain in its separately sourced eligibility record.
- Source
- PNB Scheme for Advance Against Gold Jewellery/Gold Ornaments — current terms
- Page / section
- Eligibility, retail and PNB Swarnim columns
- Accessed
- 8 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Security acceptedRetail: pledge of gold jewellery or ornaments. Swarnim: jewellery, ornaments or gold coins; bullion, primary gold and smuggled gold are excluded. For fitted or filled ornaments, the assessor-certified net weight is used to determine finance.Effective 5 Aug 2026View source
The agriculture column expressly adds coins and exclusions; the retail column names jewellery/ornaments.
- Source
- PNB Scheme for Advance Against Gold Jewellery/Gold Ornaments — current terms
- Page / section
- Security, retail and Swarnim columns
- Accessed
- 8 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Other published chargesPNB lists a current credit-information charge of ₹100 + GST; gold-appraiser fee of ₹5 per ₹1,000, minimum ₹500 and maximum ₹1,200; re-appraisal ₹150 per pouch; and safe-keeping ₹100 per month or part. Safe-keeping is recovered after the prescribed loan facility tenure/ closure. The page does not split these charges by retail versus Swarnim.Effective 5 Aug 2026View source
The current page gives the amount as presently ₹100 + , appraiser calculation and bounds, re-appraisal per pouch, and a safe-keeping charge for every facility type after closure.
- Source
- PNB Scheme for Advance Against Gold Jewellery/Gold Ornaments — current terms
- Page / section
- Charges, Other Charges paragraph
- Accessed
- 8 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Application documentPNB's Gold Loan checklist names the Application for Loan against Gold Jewellery/Ornaments (Annexure-B) and allows any other paper required for the case. Its Annexure-D and Annexure-G are specifically for Sovereign Gold Bond loans, not jewellery-backed Gold Loan.Effective 30 Jan 2025View source
The checklist distinguishes the gold-jewellery loan form from the two Sovereign Gold Bond forms and includes a case-specific additional-document clause.
- Source
- PNB Loan Application Checklist — Gold Jewellery/Ornaments section
- Page / section
- Gold Loan/Sovereign Gold Bond Loan, lines 659–664; jewellery Annexure-B
- Accessed
- 8 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Gold valuation method and certificate fieldsPNB lists touch-stone, nitric-acid test and specific-gravity methods. The Shroff certificate records article description, gross weight, weight deductions, net weight, visible damage/ defects, rate per gram and appraised value; for loans above ₹5 lakh, the page specifies the lower of two appraised values.Effective 5 Aug 2026View source
The page explicitly names all three gold-purity methods, seven fields in the Shroff certificate and the lower-of-two rule when the loan is above ₹5 lakh.
- Source
- PNB Scheme for Advance Against Gold Jewellery/Gold Ornaments — current terms
- Page / section
- Method of Valuation and Shroff certificate table
- Accessed
- 8 Oct 2026
- Confidence
- high
Geographic limitsRetail gold loan: an individual resident of India. PNB Swarnim: farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs, including tenant farmers, oral lessees and sharecroppers, and others engaged in agriculture or allied activities that qualify under RBI, Government of India or NABARD rules.View source
The manually reviewed product record states: “Retail gold loan: an individual resident of India. PNB Swarnim: farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs, including tenant farmers, oral lessees and sharecroppers, and others engaged in agriculture or allied activities that qualify under , Government of India or rules.”.
- Source
- PNB Gold Loan — official product page
- Page / section
- Published product metadata
- Accessed
- 30 Aug 2026
- Confidence
- high
Benefits and features
- Retail gold loan from ₹25,000 to ₹25 lakh
- Agricultural PNB Swarnim loan from ₹10,000 to ₹25 lakh
- Bullet repayment up to 12 months or /
variants up to 36 months - Gold appraiser and valuation process published by PNB
Eligibility
- Retail route is for a resident individual; PNB Swarnim covers farmers and persons engaged in qualifying agricultural or allied activities.
Passing a listed condition does not mean the bank will approve an application.
Documents the bank lists
- and ownership evidence for pledged gold
- Agricultural activity documents where PNB Swarnim applies