#309

RBL Jalsa

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A ₹999 card that exists in exactly one RBL document and nowhere else.

Not valued

no published earn rate to price

Verified · 3 documents

Skip the arithmetic — the board, ranked → · nothing to sign up for

What it's worth to you, after the fee

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. Everything we can source — the fee, the charges, the migration that put this card in your hand — 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 RBL Bank publishes terms we can cite.

Why we decline to value some cards, and what it takes to change that →

2 notes on the card itself: how it is issued · why it ranks #309

RBL Bank · Not published · entry

Why #309 Carried, not valued. Jalsa exists in exactly one RBL document — a ₹999 row in the MITC fee table — and in no other place the bank publishes.

₹999 + GST
Annual fee1
None
Fee waiver

The take

Jalsa is the most thinly documented card RBL has. It occupies a single row in the bank's MITC fee table — ₹999 in the first year, ₹999 thereafter, ₹200 for an add-on card, no waiver — and it appears nowhere else at all. It is not in the Schedule of Charges, which prices 64 other variants including five that have no product page. It is not in RBL's 1,955-URL sitemap. It was not in our own catalogue census of 17 August 2026, which read both of those sources. That makes the MITC the only place the bank has published anything about it, and a fee is all it publishes. So the card is here because readers who hold one deserve to find it, with the fee stated to the rupee and nothing invented around it. If you have this card, ask RBL for the product terms in writing — there is no page to read.

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 how it earns — every net-value number here would be a fee subtracted from rewards nobody has described. 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.

The downgrade

RBL 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

  • 7 Jan 2026 RBL bolts a 1% fee onto FASTag loads and tolls — the fifth 1% line on its charge sheet issuer-wide
  • 1 Jul 2025 RBL gates domestic lounges behind ₹35k a quarter issuer-wide
  • 15 Oct 2024 RBL strips points from education, government and wallet spends 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 →

The desk publishes subscribable .ics feeds for the dates it knows — offer deadlines, devaluations, expiry audits. Your renewal date is not one of them: only your statement knows it.

What's good

  • ₹999 a year, published in RBL's MITC fee table

Watch out

  • Jalsa appears in ONE RBL document — the MITC fee table — and in no other the bank publishes
  • No product page, and no row even in the Schedule of Charges, which prices 64 other variants
  • The ₹999 fee has no spend-based reversal
  • RBL publishes no reward rate, benefit, lounge access or eligibility for it
  • RBL charges 1% on FIVE transaction types its Schedule of Charges lists separately from the reward exclusions: rent (MCC 6513, on every transaction), fuel and auto above ₹10,000 a transaction (capped at ₹3,000), utility spends above ₹50,000 a month, education paid through third-party apps such as CRED, PhonePe or Paytm (school and college websites are exempt), and — with effect from 7 January 2026 — FASTag loading and tolls above ₹10,000 a transaction. These are FEES, listed nowhere near the reward exclusions: a category can both cost you 1% and earn you nothing

What these points actually fly

RBL Bank has not published what this card earns, so there are no points here to fly with — not zero points, and not points that go nowhere: nothing stated either way. The moment a benefit sheet exists we will price whatever it names.

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.

Route Invite-only
Income · salaried not published
Income · self-employed not published
Age band not published

Invite-only — there is no public application form. The bank calls you.

There is no public application. RBL runs no product page for Jalsa and does not list it among the credit cards it markets. The card is live enough to be priced: the MITC carries a current ₹999 fee row and a ₹200 add-on fee, so holders are being billed and serviced under the document's card-wide terms.

RBL Bank publishes no income or age cutoffs for this card. Blank means blank — we don't invent numbers to fill a grid.

per the official RBL Bank 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.

Forex markup Up to 3.5% on foreign-currency, dynamic and static conversion transactions; also levied on rupee transactions at an international location or at a merchant registered overseas
APR Up to 3.99%/mo (47.88%/yr) on both revolving credit and cash advances; interest-free grace period up to 50 days
Late fee 12.5% of the total outstanding amount, min ₹5, max ₹1,300
Cash advance 2.5% of the cash amount withdrawn, min ₹500
Add-on card ₹200/yr per add-on card
Overlimit Nil
Redemption fee ₹99 + GST per redemption day — one fee covers all redemptions made that day; the exempt list is Lumière, Nova, Insignia, Insignia Prime and World Xclusive only

RBL Bank MITC cum Key Fact Statement, read 2026-08-17, plus the Schedule of Charges RBL-CC-SOC-V2-12-12-2025. FEE COLUMN PROVENANCE: RBL's tables have two columns headed "Annual membership Fee (1st year)" and "Annual membership Fee (2nd year onwards)" and they are NOT inverted — the first is the charge to GET the card, the second is the recurring charge. This card: Jalsa ₹999/₹999, with no fee-reversal clause — the only RBL document that names this card. RBL publishes no income or age criteria for any card in the MITC. Other card-wide charges: cash deposit at an RBL branch ₹100; cheque return or auto-debit reversal ₹500; merchant EMI processing 1.5% or ₹150, whichever is higher; 1% on rent (MCC 6513); 1% on fuel and auto transactions above ₹10,000, capped ₹3,000; 1% on utility spends above ₹50,000 a month; 1% on education payments made through third-party apps; 1% on FASTag loading and toll transactions above ₹10,000 with effect from 7 January 2026; fuel surcharge 1% or ₹10, whichever is higher. All charges attract GST at 18%.

per the official RBL Bank MITC · reviewed 10 Jul 2026

What's changed for this card

4 dated changes

Full tracker →

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.

  • 22 Aug 2026
    Launch minor RBL Bank
    RBL relaunches the Shoppers Stop co-brand as a Gold / Platinum / Black trio
    An older single Shoppers Stop co-brand line → Three tiers — Gold (₹1,000), Platinum (₹5,000), Black (₹10,000) annual — earning 10 RP/₹200 (Gold, Platinum) or 15 RP/₹200 (Black) across the Shoppers Stop Universe, with points worth ₹0.25 / ₹0.50 / ₹1.00 respectively

    RBL rebuilt its Shoppers Stop co-brand into a three-card ladder. The fee rung buys a richer point, not just more of them: a Reward Point is worth ₹0.25 on Gold, ₹0.50 on Platinum and ₹1.00 on Black, so Black's 15 RP per ₹200 at ₹1 a point is a genuine 7.5% back on First Citizen days inside the Shoppers Stop Universe. Welcome vouchers scale the same way (₹500 quarterly on Gold, ₹2,000 plus Platinum membership and a makeover on Platinum, ₹1,500 quarterly on Black). No lounge access on any of the three — these are store cards and earn like it, with value only inside Shoppers Stop. All three are already on our board.

  • 7 Jan 2026
    Fee minor RBL Bank
    RBL bolts a 1% fee onto FASTag loads and tolls — the fifth 1% line on its charge sheet
  • 1 Jul 2025
    Lounge moderate RBL Bank
    RBL gates domestic lounges behind ₹35k a quarter
  • 15 Oct 2024
    Devaluation moderate RBL Bank
    RBL strips points from education, government and wallet spends