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Reserve Bank of India, abbreviated as RBI, is the central bank of India, and regulatory body responsible for regulation of the Indian banking system and Indian currency. Owned by the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, it is responsible for the control, issue, and maintenance of the supply of the Indian rupee. It also manages the country ...
The Government of India, in consultation with RBI, notified the 'Inflation Target' in the Gazette of India Extraordinary dated 5 August 2016 for the period beginning from the date of publication of the notification and ending on 31 March 2021 as 4%. At the same time, lower and upper tolerance levels were notified to be 2% and 6% respectively.
Narasimham was a RBI research officer who served as an additional Secretary to the Department of Economic Affairs prior to becoming the governor. 14 I. G. Patel: 1 December 1977 — 15 September 1982 4 years, 288 days Patel was an economist who served as a secretary in the Ministry of Finance prior to becoming the governor.
The committee suggested a five-member MPC - three members from the RBI and two nominated by the government. [5] The government initially proposed a seven-member committee [6] - three from the RBI and four nominated by it. Subsequent negotiations led to the current composition of the committee, with the external members having a four-year term.
In the latest occurrence, the council was reconstituted by Prime minister Modi on 25 September 2017. Currently EAC-PM chairman post is held by Bibek Debroy. [4] The previous chairman, Chakravarthi Rangarajan [5] resigned on 19 May 2014. He sent his resignation to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.He resigned following the defeat of the Congress ...
On 19 January 2011, Anand Sinha was appointed as deputy governor of RBI for a period of two years. [3] His appointed was extended for a further period of 11 months till 18 January 2014. This extension was given to Sinha to smoothen the process of issue of new bank licences, an area being handled by him as the deputy governor in charge of ...
Due to RBI efforts and the Board for Regulation and Supervision of Payment and Settlement Systems (BPSS), now over 75% of all transaction volume is electronic, including both large-value and retail payments. Out of this 75%, 98% come from the RTGS (large-value payments) whereas a meager 2% come from retail payments.
Liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) is a monetary policy tool which allows banks to borrow money through repurchase agreements (repos) that is primarily used by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). [ 1 ] The LAF is used to aid banks in adjusting the day to day mismatches in liquidity .