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Reserve Bank of India also works as a central bank where commercial banks are account holders and can deposit money. RBI maintains banking accounts of all scheduled banks. [79] Commercial banks create credit. It is the duty of the RBI to control the credit through the CRR, repo rate, and open market operations.
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The PCR is the culmination of recommendations given by the committee headed by Y.M. Deosthalee. The idea behind creating the public registry is to collate the financial information of individual and corporate borrowers under one platform, inclusive of financial delinquencies, pending legal suits, and willful defaulters.
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 business as the central bank of India. The RBI can accept deposits from the central and state governments without interest.
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
If the customer has accounts in different branches of the same bank, all of those accounts are clubbed together and the total sum is insured to a maximum of ₹5,00,000. [6] However, if there are more accounts in same bank, all of those are treated as a single account. The insurance premium is paid by the insured banks itself.
A 2010 stamp dedicated to Sorabji Pochkhanawala and the 100th anniversary of the Central Bank of India. The Central Bank of India was established on 21 December 1911 by Sir Sorabji Pochkhanawala with Sir Pherozeshah Mehta as chairman, [6] and the first commercial Indian bank completely owned and managed by Indians.
The committee suggested a six-member MPC - three members from the RBI and three nominated by the government. 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.