ICICI Insta Education Loan facility: The cost of education is rising and if funds are keeping you away from pursuing your favorite course, here’s a helping hand.  ICICI Bank today announced the launch of a facility that empowers one to get instant sanction letters for education loans up to Rs. 1 crore to finance higher studies for themselves or their children, siblings and grand-children in accredited colleges and universities across the world.

This facility enables lakhs of pre-approved customers to take education loans in a fully digital process against their fixed deposits with the bank. The Insta Education Loan facility can be used by the borrower to finance higher studies for themselves or their children, siblings and grand-children in accredited colleges and universities across the world. They can furnish the sanction letter to the educational institute to confirm their admission.

Typically, it takes a few working days for a customer to get the sanction letter of an education loan. Also, it does away with the need of having to visit a bank branch and submitting a whole lot of documents,” ICICI Bank stated in a press release.

“We believe that this facility surely brings in exceptional convenience to customers as they can avail finance for higher studies without breaking their fixed deposit/ savings,” said Sudipta Roy, Head – Unsecured Assets, ICICI Bank.

Important features
Here are some key features of the Insta Education Loan:

  • Flexibility: Customers can apply for loans up to 90 percent of their fixed deposits for their children, siblings, grandchildren, or themselves.
  • Wide range of loan amount: For students seeking admission in international institutes, the loan amount ranges between Rs 10 lakh and Rs 1 crore. The amount varies between Rs 10 lakh and Rs 50 lakh for students seeking admission in domestic institutes.
  • Easy to apply: Customers can choose the loan amount and tenure of repayment up to 10 years through the Internet banking platform.
  • Tax benefits: Full interest payment on the amount of ‘Insta Education Loan’ up to 8 years is allowed as a deduction from annual taxable income, as per the Section 80E of Income Tax Act, 1961.

Customers can avail the sanction in a few simple steps below:

1. Log in: Customers can log in to the Bank’s internet banking platform and check the pre-approved offer

2. Enter loan details: They need to enter details like loan amount, repayment tenure, name of college/university and cost of study. The calculator automatically displays the details of the Equated Monthly Instalment (EMI).

3. Enter student details: They are required to enter details of the student like name, date of birth and relation with the student. Further, they need to check the final offer, agree to terms & conditions and authenticate via a One Time Password (OTP) received on their registered mobile number. Thereafter, on payment of processing fee, a sanction letter is generated instantly.

4. Receive sanction letter: The provisional sanction letter is sent to the registered email ID along with details of the designated relationship manager.

For the final disbursement of the loan, customers are required to get in touch with the relationship manager mentioned in the email of the sanction letter. Post collecting required documents like admission letter, financial documents, and signatures, the Bank will disburse the loan amount to the educational institution. One can also visit the nearest ICICI Bank branch for the submission of the documents.