Varunah Premium BOBCARD
KeepUnlimited domestic lounges, 2% forex and 3.75% on travel — the best card BOBCARD makes, and only sailors can have it.
a year at ₹40,000 a month, after the fee
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What it's worth to you, after the fee
Welcome: 500 reward points (₹125) on ₹5,000 of spend within 60 days, plus 12 months of Amazon Prime on ₹1 lakh of spend inside 90 days and a 12-month FITPASS PRO membership
Priced on the everyday mix — 30% groceries · 10% utilities · 20% travel · 6% fuel · 34% everything else — with this card's published category rules applied. Plus milestones, minus the fee. No accelerator credit — the ranking model on /compare adds ~20% of spend at the card's best accelerator, so its ₹ for this card reads higher.
How these numbers are computed — and why the rankings show a bigger one →
Spend tiers, milestones and fee waivers included, at our house ₹/point. Portal and category multipliers can push higher — run your exact number →
Breaks even only by erasing its fee at ₹13,000 a month
At ₹13,000 a month — ₹1,56,000 a year — on the everyday mix this card returns ₹1,200 gross (earn ₹1,200) against a fee of ₹0 — the ₹2,499 is waived, the spend having cleared ₹1,50,000 a year = ₹1,200 net — the first rung at or above ₹0. The ladder runs in ₹1,000 steps to ₹1,00,000 a month and ₹10,000 steps to ₹5,00,000; figures are rounded to the hundred, and the accelerator is never credited.
2 notes on the card itself: how it is issued · why it ranks #343
Why #343 Open only to serving and retired Indian Navy personnel, so it is not a card a general reader can apply for. It ranks on what it delivers to someone who qualifies — and unlimited domestic lounge access with a 2% forex markup for ₹2,499, waivable, is a serious travel card by any standard.
The take
Varunah Premium is the top of BOBCARD's three-tier Indian Navy family and, benefit for benefit, the strongest card the issuer publishes. Unlimited complimentary domestic lounge access — the same entitlement Eterna and Tiara get, and gated the same way, on ₹75,000 of spend in the preceding calendar quarter. A 2% foreign-currency markup, BOBCARD's lowest band. And the range's best earn: three reward points per ₹100 as the floor, going to fifteen — 3.75% at BOBCARD's flat ₹0.25 redemption — on travel, online, dining and international spends. That accelerated rung stops at 2,500 points a statement, about ₹16,700 of accelerated spend a month, after which it reverts to 0.75%. The fee is ₹2,499 and it reverses on spend: ₹25,000 in the first 180 days clears the joining charge and ₹1.5 lakh an anniversary year clears the renewal, which is ₹12,500 a month — comfortably inside what the lounge gate already demands. The catch is the one every BOBCARD carries: the points are a closed loop. Flat ₹0.25 statement credit, no airline or hotel partner anywhere, two-year expiry, 1,000-point redemption minimum. So the travel value is the lounges and the forex, not the currency. On those two it is genuinely excellent, and if you have served you should be holding it.
Your renewal — keep, downgrade or cancel
This card reaches break-even by ERASING its fee, not by out-earning it: the waiver is the decision.
Keep, downgrade or cancel
₹2,499/yr at stake · 5 spend bands
The charge ₹2,499/yr
The waiver ₹1,50,000 of spend in the year before renewal — about ₹12,500 a month — and the renewal fee is not charged.
Break-even ₹13,000 a month — ₹1,56,000 a year — is where this card's value crosses its fee, and it gets there by erasing the fee at the waiver rather than out-earning it.
₹2,300 a year, net of the fee, at ₹3,00,000 of annual spend — this clears the waiver, so no fee is charged
₹4,500 a year, net of the fee, at ₹6,00,000 of annual spend — this clears the waiver, so no fee is charged
₹9,000 a year, net of the fee, at ₹12,00,000 of annual spend — this clears the waiver, so no fee is charged
₹27,000 a year, net of the fee, at ₹36,00,000 of annual spend — this clears the waiver, so no fee is charged
₹45,000 a year, net of the fee, at ₹60,00,000 of annual spend — this clears the waiver, so no fee is charged
Everyday earn plus milestones, minus the fee — the same model as the value panel above, so the two cannot disagree. run your exact spend →
Your copy of this card
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The downgrade
BOBCARD (Bank of Baroda) publishes no document naming a card you can step down to, so we name none — an invented product change is a phone call you would waste. That leaves keep or cancel, and the numbers above are the whole of it.
What has changed under this card
- 25 Aug 2026 BOBCARD withdraws accidental death cover from twenty cards issuer-wide
- 15 Jul 2026 BOBCARD nearly doubles the spend gate on unlimited domestic lounges issuer-wide
- 1 Apr 2026 BOBCARD reprices rail, toll and app-routed education issuer-wide
We price what is in force today — a change that has not happened yet is not in these numbers. the full archive for this card →
If you call to cancel
What the bank offers to keep you is the one fact this desk cannot compute. We are collecting those reports — dated, and only in aggregate — before publishing any: an offer one reader was made is not one you are owed. Called about this card? Tell us what they offered →
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What's good
- Unlimited complimentary domestic lounge visits, on ₹75,000 of spend in the preceding calendar quarter
- 2% forex markup against India's 3.5% norm — BOBCARD's lowest band
- 15 reward points per ₹100 (3.75%) on travel, online, dining and international spends
- 0.75% floor on everything else — the highest base rate BOBCARD publishes
- Fee reverses on spend: ₹25,000 in the first 180 days, then ₹1.5 lakh an anniversary year
- 12 months of Amazon Prime on ₹1 lakh of spend inside 90 days, plus a FITPASS PRO membership
Watch out
- Indian Navy personnel only — there is no public application
- The 3.75% rung stops at 2,500 points (₹625) a statement, then falls to 0.75%
- Lounge access needs ₹75,000 of spend in the preceding calendar quarter — BOBCARD's highest gate — waived only in the quarter the card is issued
- Closed loop: points redeem as statement credit at ₹0.25 with no transfer partner, expire in two years and need 1,000 points minimum
- Fuel and the Annexure-1 MCC list (rent, wallets, government, education, insurance, supermarkets, fast food) earn nothing
- UPI transactions earn the core rate only — the 5X rung never applies to them
What these points actually fly
No live transfer route takes BOBCARD Reward Points into a programme that publishes an award chart. These points buy catalogue and portal redemptions, not award seats — so this page has no flight to show you, and will not invent one.
what the cards that DO reach a chart can fly — 2,196 corridors priced →
Does your spend count toward the fee waiver?
not published — and we say which
₹1,50,000 a year is the bar that waives the ₹2,499 fee. A different question from the one above — earning points and counting toward a threshold are separate rules, and issuers write them separately.
Not published. BOBCARD (Bank of Baroda) states what the Varunah Premium BOBCARD earns, but has not published which spend categories count toward the fee waiver — the ₹1,50,000 bar. We won't guess it from the earn table or from a sibling card: Axis published three cards' rules on one day and all three lists differed. If you hold this card and have it in writing from the issuer, send us the document and we'll source it.
Lounge access
72 of 793 tracked doors
Gate: ₹75,000 of net spend in the preceding calendar quarter (waived for the quarter a fresh card is issued in); ₹2 non-refundable validation swipe at the lounge and a 5-hour cooling period between visits
Opens 72 of 793 tracked lounge doors across 39 airports — see the full map →
Can you get it?
the route in — no cutoffs published
The cutoffs and the actual route in — not the "apply now" button, the door that opens.
Invite-only — there is no public application form. The bank calls you.
BOBCARD (Bank of Baroda) publishes no income or age cutoffs for this card. Blank means blank — we don't invent numbers to fill a grid.
per the official BOBCARD (Bank of Baroda) MITC — figures marked (community) aren't in the PDF; the issuer won't say · filter the board by what you can get →
The fine print
7 of 7 MITC rows published
What the MITC actually says — the rates, fees and cutoffs the brochure skips.
DEFENCE-GATED: Indian Navy personnel. The SAME ₹2,499 appears in both KFS fee tables, with different reversal bars: ₹25,000 of spend in the first 180 days for year one, and ₹1,50,000 in an anniversary year thereafter. An equal pair, so the card file carries annualFee only and feeWaiver is the recurring bar. UNLIMITED domestic lounge visits behind ₹75,000 of spend in the preceding calendar quarter, BOBCARD's highest gate. Core 3 RP per ₹100; 15 RP per ₹100 on travel 4722, dining 5812, the online flag and the international flag, capped 2,500 RP a statement cycle. VARUNAH IS THREE PRODUCTS: the product page describes this variant only and says so, linking a separate variant sheet for Plus and the free base card.
per the official BOBCARD (Bank of Baroda) MITC · reviewed 10 Jul 2026
What's changed for this card
6 dated changes
Devaluations and buffs that touch this card directly, its issuer, or the points and programs it earns and transfers to. Every one is dated here; the tracker carries each one's before → after and the write-up.
- 25 Aug 2026BOBCARD withdraws accidental death cover from twenty cardsAir and Non-Air Accidental Death Cover bundled with Eterna, Eterna (FD), Premier, Premier (FD), Select, Select (FD), Tiara, Empower Business, Corporate Platinum, Swavlamban, Prime, Elite, Platinum Select, Signature, Assure, Renaissance and the three Pragati RRB variants. → No Air or Non-Air Accidental Death Cover. Already gone on anything issued after 15 July 2026; existing cardholders keep it only until 25 August 2026.
BOBCARD's July revision notice has a quiet fourth clause, and it lands on 25 August 2026: the Air and Non-Air Accidental Death Cover comes off twenty product variants at once — not just new cards, but every card already in a wallet. Cards issued after 15 July 2026 never had it. Call it minor and mean it, because this desk does not price the perk and neither should you: air-accident death cover is the benefit every Indian issuer prints in bold and nobody ever claims, it pays only on death in a common carrier, and it costs the issuer almost nothing precisely because it almost never pays. Losing it changes no number on this site. What it signals is the direction: the same notice already moved the unlimited-domestic-lounge gate on Eterna, Eterna (FD), Tiara and Varunah Premium from ₹40,000 to ₹75,000 of preceding-quarter spend, and raised the finance charge on Eterna and Tiara from 3.25% to 3.75% a month. The insurance line is the third cut in one PDF, and it is the one that reaches cards nobody thought were being repriced. ON THE LOUNGE DATE, because BOBCARD published three answers and two of them are still live. The 12 June notice set the ₹75,000 gate for 15 July 2026. Four days later, on 16 June, BOBCARD issued an ADDENDUM — "This communication serves as an addendum to our earlier communication on Friday 12th June 2026" — that DEFERRED the lounge change alone: "₹40,000 in preceding calendar quarter" applicable till 30 September 2026, "₹75,000" from 1 October 2026, with the finance-charge and HPCL clauses left at 15 July. Then the operative Features and Rewards T&C dated 15 July 2026 — which POSTDATES the addendum — prints §5.1 Table1 as "Eterna / Unlimited / Rs. 75,000 in preceding calendar quarter", with no date qualifier and no ₹40,000 anywhere, and BOBCARD's product pages agree. The operative document governs, so ₹75,000 is what this desk carries on all four cards; the addendum is recorded here because a reader who reads the addendum and not the T&C will believe they have until October, ; the ₹75,000 gate is the one that applies.
- 5 Aug 2026Etihad Guest Gold now costs ₹10,000 on etihad.com, not one rupee
- 15 Jul 2026BOBCARD nearly doubles the spend gate on unlimited domestic lounges
- 5 May 2026Eterna's lifetime-free window rolls forward yet again
- 1 Apr 2026BOBCARD reprices rail, toll and app-routed education
- 5 Jan 2026BOBCARD and Etihad Guest deal two co-brands — the last pipe in
Every BOBCARD (Bank of Baroda) change we've dated → 6 events in 2026, 4 of them nerfs — worst year 2026.
Verified against BOBCARD (Bank of Baroda)'s own documents on · the net-annual-value engine, at our house ₹/point
Every document behind this page — 3 of them, each with the day we read it
- official BOBCARD's Varunah page — the Premium variant's 15 points per ₹100 on travel, online, dining and international, unlimited lounge access, the 2% forex markup and the ₹2,499 fee with both waivers
- official BOBCARD Key Fact Statement (17 Jul 2026) — Varunah Premium's ₹2,499 in both fee tables with its two different waivers, the 2% foreign-currency band
- official BOBCARD Product Features T&C (15 Jul 2026) — Varunah Premium's 3 points per ₹100 core rate, its accelerated MCCs, the 2,500-point cap and the lounge rules