Putting back his concentration on the inflation, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan has said that the central bank will continue its focus on taming inflation, speeding up resolution of distressed projects and ensuring enough capital for banks through balance sheet clean-up.
While listing out short-term macroeconomic priorities, the RBI governor stated that focus on bringing down inflation in line with the proposed glide path, work with the government and banks on speeding up the resolution of distressed projects and cleaning up bank balance sheets and ensure banks have capital to make provisions, support new lending, and thus pass on future possible rate cuts.
Rajan in the Governor's overview to the annual report noted that despite efforts from both the government and RBI to restore macroeconomic stability, three areas are still 'work in progress' from RBI's perspective. The first being, economic growth is still below levels the country is capable of. Second, inflation projections for January 2016 are still at the upper limits of RBI's inflation objective, and 'Third, the willingness of banks to cut base rates -- whereby they forgo income on existing borrowers to attract more new business -- is muted. Not only does weak corporate investment reduce the volume of new profitable loans, some bank capital positions weakened by NPAs may prevent them from lending freely.'
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