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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 ...
The government initially proposed a seven-member committee [5] - 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. [citation needed] The Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Department (MPD) assists the MPC in formulating the ...
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 preamble of the Reserve Bank of India describes the basic functions of the reserve bank as: [13]...to regulate the issue of Bank notes and keeping of reserves with a view to securing monetary stability in India and generally to operate the currency and credit system of the country to its advantage; to have a modern monetary policy framework to meet the challenge of an increasingly complex ...
India's total foreign exchange (forex) reserves stand at around US$704.89 billion on 27 September 2024, with the foreign currency assets (FCA) component at around US$616 billion, gold reserves at around US$65.7 billion, special drawing rights (SDRs) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of around US$18.547 billion and around US$4.3 billion ...
Raghuram Rajan was born on 3 February 1963 in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, [10] some metres from where the Gas Tragedy took place. [11] Raghuram Rajan was born to Raghavachari Govindarajan who was the topper of the 1953 batch of Indian Police Service who was then chosen to hold key positions in IB under the earmarking scheme and then R&AW when it was segregated from IB in 1962.
Sovereign Gold Bond, abbreviated as SGB, is a government security issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on behalf of the Government of India. It is denominated in grams of gold and is linked to the price of gold in India. It is also an interest-bearing bonds, carrying an interest of 2.5% p.a. paid in two installments in a year. [1] [2]
Urjit Patel (born 28 October 1963) is a Kenyan-born Indian economist, who formerly served as the 24th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and also Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India, looking after monetary policy, economic research, financial markets, statistics and information management. He resigned from his post on 10 December 2018 ...