The official said the collections under various small savings scheme remain healthy this fiscal and will be in sync with the revised estimate. The net mop-up for senior citizens breached ₹90,000 crore as of end-January this fiscal, way above that of ₹37,362 crore in the whole of FY23. The surge is mainly driven by the 2023 Budget move to double the deposit limit under the scheme to₹30 lakh.
