{"id":101891,"date":"2026-07-20T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=101891"},"modified":"2026-07-21T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:20:40","slug":"electronic-gold-receipts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/electronic-gold-receipts\/","title":{"rendered":"Electronic Gold Receipts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Electronic Gold Receipts Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) introduced Electronic Gold Receipts (EGRs) which is a new exchange-traded segment for buying and selling gold in electronic form.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Electronic Gold Receipts<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Electronic Gold Receipts (EGRs) are <\/span><b>exchange-traded securities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> representing ownership of <\/span><b>physical gold (specified purity)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> stored in <\/span><b>SEBI-regulated vaults.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They can be <\/span><b>held electronically in a demat account,<\/b> <b>bought and sold in different denominations <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on the bourse and converted into physical gold via prescribed process.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Buying and Selling of Electronic Gold Receipts<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like shares, EGRs follow a <\/span><b>T+1 settlement cycle<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with the receipts credited to the buyer\u2019s demat account the next trading day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Retail investors, jewellers, bullion traders, refiners, institutional investors and other eligible market participants can buy <\/span><b>EGRs via registered stockbrokers.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Investors need both trading and demat accounts to buy and sell EGRs.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The EGRs are available in <\/span><b>two purity standards:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 999 (99.9% pure gold) and 995 (99.5% pure gold). In each purity category, <\/span><b>investors have six different denominations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> such <\/span><b>as 10 mg, 100 mg, 1 g, 10 g, 100 g and 1 kg.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Those who prefer<b> physical gold can convert EGRs into gold whenever needed.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Advantage:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> This offers a transparent and standardised way to own gold while removing concerns over purity and personal storage.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/business\/electronic-gold-receipts-a-new-way-to-own-gold\/article71242289.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electronic Gold Receipts are exchange-traded securities representing ownership of physical gold (specified purity) stored in SEBI-regulated vaults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":114153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7354,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-101891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-electronic-gold-receipts","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101891"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114177,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101891\/revisions\/114177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}