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The Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (RBI Act) was amended by the Finance Act, 2016, to provide a statutory and institutionalised framework for a Monetary Policy Committee, for maintaining price stability, while keeping in mind the objective of growth. The Monetary Policy Committee is entrusted with the task of fixing the benchmark policy rate ...
Monetary Policy Committee came into force on 27 June 2016. [ 2 ] Suggestions for setting up a monetary policy committee is not new and goes back to 2002 when YV Reddy committee proposed to establish a MPC, then Tarapore committee in 2006, Percy Mistry committee in 2007, Raghuram Rajan committee in 2009 and then Urjit Patel Committee in 2013.
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.
Until the Monetary Policy Committee was established in 2016, [7] it also had full control over monetary policy in the country. [8] It commenced its operations on 1 April 1935 in accordance with the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934. [9] The original share capital was divided into shares of 100 each fully paid. [10]
Thus India's central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has to make policies and use instruments accordingly. The RBI uses Open Market Operations (OMO) along with other monetary policy tools such as repo rate, cash reserve ratio and statutory liquidity ratio to adjust the quantum and price of money in the system.
Patra is a 1985 batch RBI Grade B officer. [3] [4] Before his appointment as deputy governor, Patra served as the executive director of the monetary policy department of RBI—where he moved to in 2006—and as such, was an internal member of the powerful Monetary Policy Committee.
Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934: This act provides the legal framework for the functioning of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which is the central bank of India. The RBI is responsible for regulating the monetary policy of the country, managing the foreign exchange reserves, and supervising the banking sector. [44] [45] [46] [47]
According to some experts the policy of RBI to absorb all dollars coming into the Indian economy contributes to the appreciation of the rupee. [5] When the U.S. dollar has shrieked by a margin of 30%, the RBI had made a massive injection of dollar in the economy make it highly liquid and this further triggered off inflation in non-traded goods.