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PNB Credit Card for Micro-Enterprises

PNB's government-scheme card for micro enterprises — ₹1,000 a year at most, and 12% interest where the guarantee applies.

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Our verdict: keep (ranked #688)

This is Punjab National Bank's card under the government's credit-card scheme for micro enterprises, the one that gives Udyam-registered small businesses a card-shaped working-capital line backed by a credit guarantee.

Our full review 3 good · 4 bad

PNB documents it in exactly one place, its Key Fact Statement, and the two numbers there are the ones that matter. The joining fee is nil. The annual fee is capped at 1% of the card limit or ₹1,000, whichever is lower, before tax — so ₹1,000 for any limit of ₹1 lakh or more, which is how this site prices it. The interest rate is the reason to take it. PNB's current schedule says the APR after the free-credit period "will be 12% where credit guarantee is available for the portfolio", against 35.89% on every retail PNB card. That carve-out is missing from the schedule PNB has published for 1 November 2026 — which may be an editing slip or may not — so get the rate confirmed in your sanction letter. PNB publishes no reward rate, no credit-limit band, no benefit and no application route for this card, so it is carried and not ranked. Ask the branch that holds your business account.

What's good

  • No joining fee; the annual fee is at most 1% of the limit or ₹1,000, whichever is lower
  • 12% APR after the free-credit period where the scheme's credit guarantee covers the portfolio — against 35.89% on PNB's retail cards
  • Built for Udyam-registered micro enterprises under the government's credit-card scheme

Watch out

  • The 12% APR line is in PNB's current Key Fact Statement schedule but NOT in the schedule headed w.e.f. 1 Nov 2026 — confirm the rate in writing
  • PNB HAS NOT PUBLISHED ANY EARN, credit-limit band or benefit for this card, so this site carries it without valuing or ranking it
  • No add-on cards (the KFS add-on row reads NA)
  • No product page on PNB's card portal and no row in its retail MITC; the Key Fact Statement is the only PNB document that names the card

Rewards

Punjab National Bank has not published what this card earns. Not zero: nothing stated either way. We can't value this card until the issuer publishes how it earns — every net-value number here would be a fee subtracted from rewards nobody has described.

Category rules: not published. We have not found where this card earns less.

Fees & charges

₹0 joining, then ₹1,000/yr, plus GST.

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.

We cannot work out a break-even without both the fee and the earn rate. What we can source is under Sources.

Downgrade: Punjab National Bank publishes no card you can step down to, so we name none. That leaves keep or cancel.

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All charges 2 of 7 published
Charges from the bank's terms (MITC)
ChargeWhat the bank saysOur read
Forex markupnot published
Interest (APR)12% a year after the free-credit period "where credit guarantee is available for the portfolio" (current KFS schedule); the schedule headed w.e.f. 1 Nov 2026 omits this line and lists only PNB's 2.95%/mo (35.89%/yr)
Late payment feenot published
Cash withdrawal feenot published
Add-on card feeNot offered (KFS add-on row reads NA)
Over-limit feenot published
Reward redemption feenot published

From Punjab National Bank's most important terms and conditions, checked 10 Jul 2026.

Joining NIL; annual fee "Maximum 1% of card limit or Rs. 1,000 whichever is lower (excluding taxes)" in both KFS schedules. The card is absent from PNB's retail MITC and from the KFS drawal-limit table; no earn, limit band or benefit is published.

The document

Who can get it Not confirmed on sale
Eligibility
RuleWhat the bank says
How you get itNot confirmed on sale
Income, salariednot published
Income, self-employednot published
Agenot published

From Punjab National Bank's terms document.

Not confirmed on sale — the issuer still documents this card but we could not confirm it is open to new applications. Treat any application path with care.

Through your PNB branch. PNB's card portal has no product page or application route for this card; the scheme is for micro enterprises registered on the Udyam portal.

Lounges

No lounge access: opens 0 of 792 lounges we track. Find a card that gets you in.

Welcome & milestones

Welcome bonus: none published.

Spend milestones: none published.

What changed

  • Coming PNB raises late, cash, bounce and redemption charges on every credit card issuer-wide · Announced 6 Oct 2026
  • PNB EMT's cash advance charge goes to 2.5%, minimum ₹400 Fee · about the PNB EMT RuPay Platinum · not in force yet
Every change, before and after 2

We price what is in force today — a change that has not happened yet is not in these numbers.

Coming 1 Nov 2026

PNB raises late, cash, bounce and redemption charges on every credit card

Before

Late fee Nil to ₹750 across four slabs; cash advance 2% with a ₹100–₹300 floor by card and ATM; a bounced payment ₹100–₹250; reward redemption free; no fee on utility payments

From 1 Nov 2026

From 1 November 2026: late fee Nil to ₹1,200 across five slabs; cash advance 2.5% with a ₹400 floor at PNB ATMs and ₹500 elsewhere; a bounced payment 2% of the amount, minimum ₹400; ₹99 per reward redemption; 1% on utility payments above ₹50,000 a billing cycle, capped ₹2,000 a transaction

: PNB EMT's cash advance charge goes to 2.5%, minimum ₹400 (about the PNB EMT RuPay Platinum, not in force yet)

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Alternatives

PNB Corporate VISA

Punjab National Bank

₹1,300 a year at ₹75,000 a month

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Why it ranks #688

A business card carried, not ranked. PNB states the fee formula and an interest rate a third of its retail cards', and nothing about earn, limit or benefits.

More about this card 3 pages

Sources

Last checked . Every fact on this page comes from these 2 documents; the bank's own are marked official.

  1. Official PNB's bank-wide Key Fact Statement — nil joining, an annual fee of at most 1% of the limit or ₹1,000, and a 12% APR where the credit guarantee applies read 18 Oct 2026
  2. Official PNB's Most Important Terms and Conditions for retail credit cards — read for this card and found not to name it read 18 Oct 2026

Not published by Punjab National Bank: the earn rate and the points it earns. We show these as "not published", never as zero.

How we work out the yearly value

Not valued. We can't value this card until the issuer publishes how it earns — every net-value number here would be a fee subtracted from rewards nobody has described. This card is not in our rankings, the calculator or the best-of lists until Punjab National Bank publishes terms we can cite.

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