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Purpose codes  /  Group 03

Travel purpose codes

Group 03 of RBI’s receipt purpose codes, Travel, carries 6 codes. Receipts from travel: purchases towards travel, business, medical and education travel, and currency surrendered by returning tourists.

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Every code in group 03

CodeRBI wordingeBRC on DGFT
P0301Purchases towards travel (Includes purchases of foreign TCs, currency notes etc over the counter, by hotels, Emporiums, institutions etc. as well as amount received by TT/SWIFT transfers or debit to Non-Resident account).Service export, not named
P0302Business travelService export, not named
P0304Travel for medical treatment including TCs purchased by hospitalsService export, not named
P0305Travel for education including TCs purchased by educational institutionsService export, not named
P0306Other travel receiptsService export, not named
P0308Foreign Currencies/TCs surrendered by returning Indian tourists.Service export, not named

Where the wording and the rules come from

The wording in the table is RBI’s, from the receipt purpose list in Annex I to A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 84 dated 29 February 2012, the list Authorised Dealer banks report foreign exchange receipts against. The eBRC column is DGFT’s, from its General Guidelines for Generating eBRC (last updated 26 March 2024), and each code’s page quotes the rule behind its entry. How the purpose code is checked when a remittance is mapped is in RBI purpose codes on your eBRC.

RBI's receipt purpose list carries 6 codes in group 03: P0301, P0302, P0304, P0305, P0306, P0308. Receipts from travel: purchases towards travel, business, medical and education travel, and currency surrendered by returning tourists.

DGFT's guidelines do not name P0301. They say that for a service export the exporter can attach only invoices whose SAC code matches the description of the service, and that no two purpose codes may be clubbed in one eBRC except with P0103. So where P0301 is the right description of a service you exported, the eBRC is generated with P0301 on its own, or clubbed with P0103, against an invoice whose SAC code matches that service. The same holds for every code in group 03; each code's page on ebrc.in states the rule that applies.

The AD bank that receives the payment. It reports the remittance to the RBI with the code that describes it, and that report is the IRM the eBRC is generated from. A code that looks wrong is corrected through the bank.

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