Deviating from the recommendations made by the expert committee headed by Deputy Governor Urjit R. Patel, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has given a nod for a major overhaul of the current monetary policy framework, wherein the Centre will specify ‘inflation targets’ for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to achieve. Under the proposed new regime, the RBI will set inflation as its top priority in its policy statements.
Headed by Reserve Bank Deputy Governor Urjit R. Patel, an expert committee of the RBI was appointed to examine monetary policy, which had recommended that the monetary policy decision-making should be vested with a monetary policy committee, chaired by the RBI governor. Among other recommendations, it suggested apex bank to adopt new Consumer Price Index (CPI) as the measure of the nominal anchor for monetary policy and that the RBI set the target CPI inflation level at 4 per cent (+/- 2 per cent) to be achieved through its monetary policy tools.
However, Modi government has decided to take the onus of fixing the inflation targets as it felt that RBI shouldn’t’ set it for itself an inflation target of ‘4% for all times to come. In 2014-15 budget speech Mr. Jaitley said the Modi government was keen on moving to a modern monetary policy framework to meet the challenges of an increasingly complex economy.
RBI, in its fourth bi-monthly monetary policy stance and rationale, expressed upside risk to its target to bring consumer inflation down to 6% by January 2016, which continued to warrant policy preparedness to contain pressures if the risks materialized. However, the central bank highlighted that its immediate target in containing the consumer price index (CPI) inflation at 8% by January 2015, looked achievable.
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