IndusInd Aura Edge Government
Keep1% back on the first ₹10,000 a month, at 2.99% interest — the government-sector card IndusInd replaced with Samman.
no published fee to price it against
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What it's worth to you, after the fee
Not valued. We can't value this card until the issuer publishes a fee — every net-value number here would be wrong by exactly the fee we can't find. Everything we can source — the earn rate, the transfer routes, the lounge doors — is above and stands on its own; this card is simply not on the board, not in the calculator, and cannot win a best-of call until IndusInd Bank publishes a fee schedule we can cite.
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1 notes on the card itself: how it is issued
The take
The government-sector edition of IndusInd's Platinum Aura Edge, and one of the odder entries in the bank's own MITC: it is named in the discontinued list and then given better terms than the live cards two pages later. Interest is 2.99% a month against 3.95% for the base Aura Edge — a full point cheaper, and the same tier Pioneer Heritage and Celesta sit in — cash advance charges are waived outright, and converting spends or balances into EMI runs at 1.1% a month with no processing fee. The earn is a flat 1% cashback with the ceiling stated plainly by the bank: only the first ₹10,000 of spend in a statement cycle qualifies, so the cashback tops out at ₹100 a month and ₹1,200 a year, and IndusInd prints the ₹15,000 and ₹20,000 rows at that same ₹100 to make the point. Around it sit a BookMyShow ticket worth up to ₹200 every six months and a 1% waiver on both fuel surcharge at any Indian pump and railway surcharge on IRCTC. What IndusInd does not publish is the fee, anywhere — no MITC row, nothing on the page — so we state none. The successor is the Samman RuPay card, which is open, priced at nil joining and ₹199 a year, doubles the cashback ceiling to ₹200 a cycle, and adds UPI linking this card never had.
Your renewal — keep, downgrade or cancel
There is no renewal arithmetic to run on this card yet — and a break-even we cannot source is not one we will print.
the whole desk — what changed, the downgrade, and what we cannot price →
Keep, downgrade or cancel
what we can and cannot price
Not valued. We can't value this card until the issuer publishes a fee — every net-value number here would be wrong by exactly the fee we can't find. A break-even is the spend at which value crosses a fee, and we are short one side of that sentence — so this desk prints no ladder, no crossing and no ₹0 standing in for either. What we can source about this card is under Sources.
Your copy of this card
You hold this card.
Kept on this device, in your browser. It is never sent to us, never synced, and nothing else on the site reads it yet.
The downgrade
IndusInd Bank 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 we cannot price either side of it.
What has changed under this card
- 15 Jun 2026 IndusInd doubles its DCC fee to 2% on the mass shelf, and holds 1% on the premium one issuer-wide
- 25 Mar 2025 IndusInd hikes redemption fee to ₹149, caps cash-outs at 50% 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
- Interest of 2.99% a month (36% a year) — a full point below the base Platinum Aura Edge's 3.95%, and the same tier as Pioneer Heritage and Celesta
- Cash advance charges waived entirely — the MITC names this variant in the waiver list
- 1% cashback on retail spends, credited to the card account the following statement cycle
- Convert spends or outstanding balances into EMI at 1.1% a month (13.2% a year) with nil processing fees
- One complimentary BookMyShow ticket worth up to ₹200 every six months
- 1% waiver on fuel surcharge at any petrol pump in India and on railway surcharge via IRCTC
Watch out
- INDUSIND PUBLISHES NO FEE FOR THIS VARIANT — no MITC row and nothing on the product page. Do not read the base Platinum Aura Edge's NIL/NIL line as this card's: the MITC treats them as two cards and gives them different interest rates
- The 1% cashback is capped at ₹100 a statement cycle — only the first ₹10,000 of spend earns, and IndusInd's own table prints the ₹15,000 and ₹20,000 rows at the same ₹100
- Closed to new applications — the MITC names "Platinum Aura Edge Credit Card (For Government Sector)" in its discontinued list, and the page directs government-sector applicants elsewhere
- The cashback is a statement credit — it reaches no airline, no hotel and no transfer partner
- No UPI linking: the successor Samman card is the RuPay product that does that
- NO airport lounge access of any kind
What these points actually fly
No live transfer route takes Statement cashback (₹) 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 →
Lounge access
0 of 793 tracked doors
No lounge access. This card opens exactly 0 of 793 tracked lounge doors — board with the crowd, or find a card that doesn't →
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.
Closed to new applications — existing cardholders keep the card; there is no way in.
Closed to new applications. The page is headed "Platinum Aura Edge Credit Card Exclusively for Government Sector Employees - (Discontinued)" and carries IndusInd's own notice that the product is displayed only as a reference for existing holders, with a link telling government-sector applicants to apply elsewhere; the MITC names the variant in its discontinued list. Existing holders keep the 2.99% interest rate and the waived cash-advance charge, both of which the same MITC still grants by name. The live replacement is the Samman RuPay Credit Card, which costs nothing to take out, charges ₹199 a year with a waiver at ₹75,000 of spend, doubles the cashback ceiling to ₹200 a cycle and adds UPI linking.
IndusInd Bank publishes no income or age cutoffs for this card. Blank means blank — we don't invent numbers to fill a grid.
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What's changed for this card
8 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.
- 1 Jul 2026Pioneer Legacy's quarterly lounge visit now costs ₹1.5 lakh of spend1 complimentary domestic lounge visit a quarter, no spend condition → From the Jul–Sep 2026 quarter, the visit unlocks only on ₹1,50,000 of previous-quarter spend
The spend-tracking regime IndusInd switched on in April now bites: from the July–September 2026 quarter, Pioneer Legacy's single complimentary domestic lounge visit is granted only if you put ₹1.5 lakh through the card the quarter before. Legacy sits in the same ₹1.5L tier as Pinnacle; Indulge, Solitaire and Crest need ₹5 lakh for theirs. The gate covers the domestic visit — the Priority Pass international allowance isn't part of this condition. On a private-banking card with a ₹50,000 retail joining fee, spend-gating one lounge visit a quarter is a remarkably small door to put a toll on, and IndusInd did it anyway.
- 15 Jun 2026IndusInd doubles its DCC fee to 2% on the mass shelf, and holds 1% on the premium one
- 1 Apr 2026IndusInd Pinnacle's domestic lounge access goes spend-gated
- 25 Mar 2025IndusInd hikes redemption fee to ₹149, caps cash-outs at 50%
- 7 Mar 2025Legend loses lounge access entirely1 complimentary domestic lounge visit per quarter → No complimentary lounge access at all
A year after halving Legend's lounge visits, IndusInd came back and took the rest. From 7 March 2025 the card offers no complimentary lounge access, domestic or otherwise — on a product still marketed with a ₹5,000 joining fee. The lifetime-free Legend crowd shrugs; anyone who paid for this card on the strength of its airport perks got a two-step lesson in how IndusInd sunsets a benefit.
- 1 Mar 2024Legend halves lounge visits, cuts cash value to ₹0.50
- 17 Aug 2023IndusInd launches the Avios card — BA and Qatar in one
- 3 Aug 2023IndusInd's lifetime-free Tiger prowls in
Every IndusInd Bank change we've dated → 10 events since 2016, 8 of them nerfs — worst year 2025.
Verified against IndusInd Bank's own documents on
Not published , and we will not invent it: the annual fee.
Every document behind this page — 2 of them, each with the day we read it
- official The card's own product page — the 1% cashback and its ₹100-per-cycle cap, the 1.1% EMI rate, the BookMyShow ticket, both surcharge waivers and the discontinuation notice
- official IndusInd's credit-card MITC — this variant in the discontinued list with no fee row, yet still holding its own 2.99% interest rate and a waived cash-advance charge