Finance minister Arun Jaitley will address the board of the Reserve Bank on August 9 amid expectations that the central bank will complement government actions by reducing rates to boost growth.
“The meeting has been scheduled for August 9 where he would be addressing the board members and talk about announcements made in the Budget to perk up growth," a source said.
Jaitley is likely to inform the RBI board about the steps taken to contain the fiscal deficit and may underline the need to reduce interest rates to promote growth.
It has been a custom that the finance minister addresses RBI board, consisting of RBI governor and existing three deputy governors, after the Budget.
The meeting comes in the backdrop of the persistent high food inflation and deficient rain. Food inflation is still hovering around 8%. For the month ended June, it stood at 8.14% against 9.5% in the previous month.
“If inflation moderates and RBI agrees, which I am sure will agree, (the government would like) to bring down rates... We want to go back to a situation of Vajpayee’s time when buying a flat becomes cheaper than taking on rent. So that installments becomes less than rent," the finance minister had said recently.
In the last policy review in June, RBI chose not to tinker with the policy rate. Thus, it was the second consecutive time that RBI governor Raghuram Rajan kept interest rates unchanged.
The repo rate, at which the RBI lends to banks, was retained at 8% and the cash reserve ratio (CRR) was kept unchanged at 4%.
The statutory liquidity ratio (SLR), the mandatory amount of bonds lenders must park at the RBI, was cut by 0.5% to 22.5% of their net demand and time liabilities (NDTL) with effect from June 14.
RBI is likely to announce its second bi-monthly policy review on August 5. As far as economic expansion is concerned, the country has witnessed GDP growth of sub-5% level for last two years. For 2013-14, the economic growth was restricted to 4.7%. However, the growth is expected to improve to 5.4-5.9% during the current fiscal as per the latest Economic Survey.
Source : http://www.financialexpress.com/
“The meeting has been scheduled for August 9 where he would be addressing the board members and talk about announcements made in the Budget to perk up growth," a source said.
Jaitley is likely to inform the RBI board about the steps taken to contain the fiscal deficit and may underline the need to reduce interest rates to promote growth.
It has been a custom that the finance minister addresses RBI board, consisting of RBI governor and existing three deputy governors, after the Budget.
The meeting comes in the backdrop of the persistent high food inflation and deficient rain. Food inflation is still hovering around 8%. For the month ended June, it stood at 8.14% against 9.5% in the previous month.
“If inflation moderates and RBI agrees, which I am sure will agree, (the government would like) to bring down rates... We want to go back to a situation of Vajpayee’s time when buying a flat becomes cheaper than taking on rent. So that installments becomes less than rent," the finance minister had said recently.
In the last policy review in June, RBI chose not to tinker with the policy rate. Thus, it was the second consecutive time that RBI governor Raghuram Rajan kept interest rates unchanged.
The repo rate, at which the RBI lends to banks, was retained at 8% and the cash reserve ratio (CRR) was kept unchanged at 4%.
The statutory liquidity ratio (SLR), the mandatory amount of bonds lenders must park at the RBI, was cut by 0.5% to 22.5% of their net demand and time liabilities (NDTL) with effect from June 14.
RBI is likely to announce its second bi-monthly policy review on August 5. As far as economic expansion is concerned, the country has witnessed GDP growth of sub-5% level for last two years. For 2013-14, the economic growth was restricted to 4.7%. However, the growth is expected to improve to 5.4-5.9% during the current fiscal as per the latest Economic Survey.
Source : http://www.financialexpress.com/
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