RBI MPC kees repo rate unchanged at 6.5%, inflation for FY25 at 4.5%
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das at the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting on Friday announced the policy rate unchanged at 6.5 per cent.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das at the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting on Friday announced the policy rate unchanged at 6.5 per cent.
“The path-breaking structural reforms, such as the enactment of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) and the adoption of Flexible Inflation Targeting in the recent years, have helped us to deal with the challenges in the banking system and the task of maintaining price stability more effectively,” he said.
In the throes of economic dynamism, India finds itself at the intersection of contrasting forces, with its annual retail inflation surging to a four-month high in December.
Intolerance of economic crimes is not unique to India; Bernard Madoff the mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme, worth an estimated $18 billion, was sentenced by a US court to 150 years in prison, making people wonder if financial fraud was worse than violent crimes like rape and murder.
The Reserve Bank of India asked banks to be more transparent in resetting interest rates and EMIs of floating-rate home loans under the external benchmark-based lending rate (EBLR) mechanism.
The assets listed in the letter include ultra-luxury cars such as a Rolls Royce Phantom, Bentley Continental, a BMW 730 LD, as well as a humble Ambassador, owned by Rakesh Wadhawan.
Essentially, it is the routine disclosure breach that is most corrosive, indicating collusion, misleading of regulators, inflation of revenues and suppression of delinquency.
'What makes India strong is its diversity, debate and tolerance. What makes it weak is narrow-mindedness, obscurantism and divisiveness,' said former RBI governor Rajan
CLSA said the sustained improvement in housing could drive economic growth revival.
Meanwhile, one can only hope that the massive loss of jobs in the automotive sector will move Modi 2 to accepting the plight of the economy because the farm sector job losses certainly did not.
