The status of scheduled bank confers on banks certain advantages, especially the facility of obtaining accommodation in the from of refinance and loans and advances from the Reserve Bank and of being considered for grant of authorised dealer's licence to handle foreign exchange business (for which other conditions have also to be fulfilled).
Correspondingly, they bear certain obligations towards the Reserve Bank such as maintenance of cash reserves and submission of fortnightly returns prescribed from time to time under Section 42 of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934. The Reserve Bank is empowered to exclude from the Schedule any bank the aggregate value of whose paid-up capital and reserves falls below Rs. 5 lakhs, or which goes into liquidation or otherwise ceases to transact banking business.
Non-Scheduled banks are banking companies other than those included in the Second Schedule to the Reserve Bank of India Act.


