Can anyone from India explain a chit scheme with a simple example?

Chit fund industry has been evolving in the recent years. Chit funds are considered as the best saving option to which households can opt upon.

So, how chit funds work?

Let us start from the base. According to the Chit Fund Act, 1982, a chit fund is a type of rotating savings and agreements among multiple members. The members can be either colleagues, friends, relatives, neighbours. The members of the chit funds contribute a certain sum of money for a short period of time.

Say, if 50 members are there in a chit group. Each wish to contribute 1000 in a monthly basis for 10 months. If so, they will get a sum of 10,000 at the end. Chit funds are also known as Chitty, Kuree, and chit.

The picture explains the flow of money at chit funds in detail.

Are chit funds safe? Of course, yes!! Here is the reason!!

Before that, there is a person called foreman in every chit fund group. Every chit group selects one member among them as the foreman. He is responsible for the amount and the monthly auctions. In return, every month he will get 5% of the money given at the end of auction.

Before commencing the chit group, the foreman has to register the company with the registrar of chits. It is mandatory for every chit fund group either local chit group among relatives or a registered chit fund organisation.

During registering, the owner of the chit has to pay 100% of the chit value to the registrar of the chits. It is the resemblance of giving security. Once the chit group closes, the deposited amount can be withdrawn once every subscriber is free of his/her dues.

If the chit is not registered, neither the owner pays the security amount nor he is responsible for the amount deposited by the subscribers.

In other words,

Chit fund follows an exact analogy regarding kitty party. In the kitty party, the party will be arranged every month under different subscribers’ place. Likewise, chit fund subscribers contribute certain amount equally in a monthly basis and one subscriber gets the collected money.

The only difference between chit fund and kitty party is that lucky draw takes place in kitty party whereas in chit funds, auction takes place. Nowadays, many chit fund organisations have been involved in using chit fund software.

Chit fund software, but why?

Because, the chit fund software has become a handy solution for the hurdles faced by chit fund organisations. All the chits and other related data has been handled by the chit fund software. Other than that, the chit fund software helps in bringing up many benefits to the user.

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