Updated: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:07 (IST) The search is on for the claimants of Rs 9127.99 crore deposited in dormant accounts in the banks of Uttar Pradesh. Under the ‘Your Capital Your Rights’ campaign, camps will be organized in 12 districts from November 1. Information on acquiring unclaimed properties will be given in these camps. Financial literacy campaign is also going on at the behest of RBI, under which information about activation of inactive accounts is given. State Bureau, Lucknow. There are 3.13 crore accounts in the banks of the state which have been lying dormant for years. Rs 9127.99 crore people are stuck in these accounts. Banks are looking for claimants for these accounts. For this, the third phase of the nationwide campaign ‘Your Capital Your Rights’ which is being run by the Ministry of Finance of the Government of India will start from November 1. Remove ad, just read news. According to this, awareness camps will be organized in 12 districts of UP. People will be told that if they have unclaimed assets in any financial institution, they can get them. It is estimated that if the money deposited with other financial institutions such as insurance, shares, mutual funds etc. are also included, people in UP will have at least Rs 15,000 crore in financial institutions. Due to lack of information people are not trying to get this amount. In search of claimants for these accounts that have been inactive for years, banks often send letters to the addresses of the account holders. When no claimant comes, even after continuously sending letters, the bank sends the amount in the said account to the Reserve Bank of India. Now a campaign has been started to look for claimants of such accounts by setting up camps. State Level Bankers Committee (SLBC) convener, Bank of Baroda Lucknow Zonal Head, Shailendra Kumar Singh, while giving information about the campaign on Friday, said that this campaign will be conducted at the national level from October 1 to December 31. Camps were organized in Mathura on October 15 and in Aligarh on October 17. In the third phase of the campaign starting from November 1, camps will be organized in Barabanki, Firozabad, Gonda, Hardoi, Kheri, Kushinagar, Mau, Mirzapur, Shahjahanpur, Sitapur, Sonbhadra and Sultanpur districts. It is worth noting that on the instructions of RBI, a financial literacy campaign has been going on in the state since July 1, in which people, along with the activation of the inactive accounts, are given information about the withdrawal of the money deposited in the inactive accounts (def accounts) for more than ten years. This campaign runs until October 31st. Camps were organized under this campaign in 57,607 panchayats. The list of unclaimed financial assets will be available in the camps. SLBC Coordinator said that the list of unclaimed bank deposits, shares, dividends, mutual funds, insurance claims etc. will be available in these camps. Along with banks, representatives of all other financial institutions will be present on site. If any person feels that he or someone in his family may have unclaimed financial assets, he can get information by giving his name and address at the camp. If your name is found in the list, you will be able to claim payment by filling out the form on the spot. Along with the form, a copy of Aadhaar, passport or such other documents will have to be given to identify the name and address. If there are several claimants to a financial asset, they can claim it by mutual consent. Disputed financial assets can only be claimed through legal process. Top ten districts with inactive bank accounts and funds deposited in them: District Total number of accounts Deposits Rs (in crore) Lucknow 10,78,826 620.97 Kanpur Nagar 9,33,684 400.36 Prayagraj 8,42,931 360,826an 6,826an 9. Ghaziabad 6,25,944 275.45 Azamgarh 10,03,682 270.52 Jaunpur 10,86,975 268.72 Agra 7,99,515 267.93 Gorakhpur 6,97,874 259.37 Ghazipur 8,77.7 Grand Total 7,249,88,74,012 3,066.44
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