The number of free withdrawals from third-party ATMs is soon set to come down 
from five a month to two for account holders in cities. The Reserve Bank of 
India (RBI) has asked banks to continue with the existing facility for rural 
ATMs and provide them details of the number of machines that are there in 
villages.
The downside for customers is that if there is no home bank ATM nearby and they 
have exhausted their free usage, they will have to pay up to Rs 20 for a cash 
withdrawal from athird-party ATM.

Banks have been lobbying for a cap on free usage and an increase in the fee 
that they pay each other for their customers using other banks' ATMs. Their 
argument is that the free access is being misused and accountholders have 
increased their frequency of withdrawals. This results in a loss to the 
card-issuing bank. At the same time, ATM deployers are complaining that they 
are facing an increase in charges following RBI and policy directives on new 
security features.

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