Echoing sentiments of the nation, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan said that the decisive election victory for the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance has created a favorable environment for policy actions and should help in reviving economic growth.
In RBI's second Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Statement for this financial year, Rajan underscored that lead indicators continued to point sluggishness in the economy, with retail inflation still remaining at elevated levels and outlook for agriculture being clouded by forecasts of a delay in the onset of the south-west monsoon.
India’s Apex Bank, in its monetary policy guidance and rationale, underscored that it remains committed of keeping the economy on a disinflationary course, by taking CPI inflation to 8% by January 2015 and 6% by January 2016.
However, the former chief economist of International Monetary Fund (IMF) also highlighted that decisive election result, together with improved sentiment is expected to create a favourable environment for comprehensive policy actions and a revival in aggregate demand as well as a gradual recovery of growth during the course of the year.
In a conciliatory gesture to the new government elected on a premise of reviving economic growth, RBI in its second bi-monthly monetary policy statement, 2014-15, much in line with expectations, maintained a status quo stance for policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) at 8.0%. However, India’s Apex Bank decided to reduce the statutory liquidity ratio (SLR) of scheduled commercial banks by 50 basis points from 23.0% to 22.5% of their NDTL with effect from the fortnight beginning June 14, 2014. Additionally, it also slashed liquidity provided under the export credit refinance (ECR) facility from 50% of eligible export credit outstanding to 32% with immediate effect.
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