Post Office’s Great scheme – invest once, the amount will more than double in 10 years

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If you are looking for such an option for those investments in which your money will grow rapidly and there is no risk, then you should invest in Post Office FD.

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Post Office FD is also called Time Deposit. You can deposit money in post office time deposit for 1,2,3 and up to 5 years. At present, if you invest money in the post office time deposit scheme for 5 years, then you will get interest at the rate of 7.5 percent.

Suppose you invest Rs 5,00,000 in post office FD, then after 5 years at 7.5%, you will get Rs 2,24,974 as interest on it. Including principal and interest on maturity, a total of Rs 7,24,974 will be received.

But if you want to double this amount, then you do not have to withdraw this amount after maturity, but you have to fix it again for 5 years. After 5 years, according to the current interest rate, interest of Rs 3,26,201 will be added on this. In this way, you will get Rs 5,51,175 only as interest on an investment of Rs 5 lakh and after 10 years you will get a total of Rs 10,51,175.

This is the current interest rate according to the year

Fixed for 1 year – 6.8%
Fixed for 2 years – 6.9%
Fixed for 3 years – 7.0%
Fixed for 5 years – 7.5%

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