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Sir C. D. Deshmukh was the first Indian to serve as the governor. Sir Benegal Rama Rau was the longest serving governor. I. G. Patel, the fourteenth governor Manmohan Singh, the fifteenth governor, later served as the thirteenth prime minister of India Raghuram Rajan, the twenty-third governor Shaktikanta Das, the twenty-fifth governor Sanjay Malhotra, the twenty-sixth and the incumbent governor
An Act to provide to the responsibility of the Central Government to ensure inter – generational equity in fiscal management and long-term macro-economic stability by removing fiscal impediments in the effective conduct of monetary policy and prudential debt management consistent with fiscal sustainability through limits on the Central Government borrowings, debt and deficits, greater ...
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.
The RBI serves this purpose for the Government of India (GoI). The RBI is also a banker to the government and performs merchant banking function for the central and the state governments. As a banker to the Government of India, the RBI maintains its accounts, receive payments into and make payments out of these accounts.
In macroeconomics, an open market operation (OMO) is an activity by a central bank to exchange liquidity in its currency with a bank or a group of banks. The central bank can either transact government bonds and other financial assets in the open market or enter into a repurchase agreement or secured lending transaction with a commercial bank.
This led to uncertainty and resulted in friction between the government and the RBI, especially during the times of low growth and high inflation. Before the constitution of the MPC, a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) on monetary policy with experts from monetary economics, central banking, financial markets and public finance advised the ...
The minimum balance required to be maintained by Govt. on Fridays and at the close of the Govt.’s or RBI's financial year shouldn't be less than Rs.100 cr and on any other working day not less than Rs.10 cr. Further when 75% of WMA is utilised, the RBI may consider fresh flotation of market loans depending on the market conditions.
Although this section has been used only once by the central govt, [3] it puts a restriction on the autonomy of the RBI. Section 7 states that the central government can legislate the functioning of the RBI through the RBI board, and the RBI is not an autonomous body. Section 17 of the Act defines the manner in which the RBI can conduct ...