CHIT provides a good source of finance for different type of people viz., small investors, businessmen, small scale industrialists etc. CHIT is a good means of savings for any contingency requiring substantial amount. It serves all persons whether they desire for savings or borrowing to meet extraordinary expenses on special occasions like Marriages, Construction of houses , business , Education etc., Adequate care is necessary to choose a suitable Group. The selection of a particular Group, largely depends on the subscriber’s capacity to provide surplus funds month after month from his normal income for this purpose. This aspect is very important for the subscriber as well as the company’s point of view to avoid any embarrassment at the time of releasing the prize money or in releasing chit instalments month after month.

Any person under the Act responsible for the conduct of the chit and includes any Person, such as branch manager, discharging his functions.

The Chit agreement is a contract between the foreman and the individual subscribers to a chit group. It is a set of bye-laws or regulations dealing with the procedure for the conduct of chits. It will be signed in duplicate, duly witnessed. The chit agreements shall contain the name and address of the subscriber, the number of tickets allotted to him, the number of instalments and the instalment amount payable, the interest/penalty for delayed payment, the probable date of commencement of chit and its duration, the manner of deciding the prize winner at each instalment, the maximum discount to be foregone at each instalment, the mode and proportion of dividend and foreman's commission, the date, time and place of auction, the instalment at which the foreman is to get the chit amount, the name of the bank, the security to be furnished by prized subscriber etc., Though each subscriber is supposed to sign the chit agreement, in practice, each subscriber signs a declaration in the application form that he has read and understood the terms and conditions of the Chit Agreement. The declaration of all the subscribers are detached from the application form, pasted in a piece of paper and filed with the registrar.