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Re-organisation of districts in the NCT of Delhi – Assignment and Review of Lead Bank Responsibility

RBI/2026-27/300 FIDD.CO.LBS.BC.No.12/02.08.001/2026-27 October 26, 2026

The Chairman / Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer Lead Banks concerned

Madam/ Dear Sir,

Re-organisation of districts in the NCT of Delhi – Assignment and Review of Lead Bank Responsibility

The Government of National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi has notified re-organisation of districts in the NCT of Delhi vide Gazette Notification No. F.223/ SDM-II (HQ)/ Land/2025/285 dated December 25, 2025, whereby three new districts, viz., Old Delhi, Central North and Outer North have been formed and Shahdara district has ceased to exist.

2. Lead Bank responsibilities in the newly created districts have been assigned as follows:

Sr. No	Newly Created District	Lead Bank	District Working Code
1.	Old Delhi	Canara Bank	03E (to be read as ‘Numeral Zero, Numeral Three and Alphabet E’)
2.	Central North	State Bank of India	03F (to be read as ‘Numeral Zero, Numeral Three and Alphabet F’)
3.	Outer North	Punjab National Bank	03G (to be read as ‘Numeral Zero, Numeral Three and Alphabet G’)

3. Lead Bank responsibilities of some of the existing districts in the NCT of Delhi have been reviewed, consequent upon re-organisation and stand modified as follows:

Sr. No	Name of District	Existing Lead Bank	District Working Code	Newly Assigned Lead Bank
1.	Central	Canara Bank	358	State Bank of India
2.	Northwest	Punjab National Bank	362	Union Bank of India

4. As Shahdara district has ceased to exist, the Lead Bank responsibility notified in respect of the district vide circular RPCD.CO.LBS.BC.No.12/02.08.001/2013-14 dated July 11, 2013 as follows, stands revoked:

Sr. No.	District (Erstwhile)	Lead Bank	District Working Code
1	Shahdara	Bank of Baroda	369

5. In the remaining districts, the existing Lead Banks shall remain unchanged, till further communication.

Yours faithfully,
(Nisha Nambiar) Chief General Manager-in-Charge