Ahead of the monetary policy review scheduled on October 4, Reserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Patel met Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in a customary pre-monetary policy meeting where macro-economic developments are discussed.
This will be Patel’s first monetary policy review since he took over as RBI Governor and by the interest-rate setting panel, whose constitution was notified by the government. The government last week named three academics from the country's top institutions as its nominee members to the MPC. Indian Statistical Institute professor Chetan Ghate, Delhi School of Economics director Pami Dua and IIM-Ahmedabad professor Ravindra Dholakia as also three RBI nominees will have one vote each. In case of a tie, Patel will have a casting vote in deciding on the interest rate as guided by a newly established inflation target.
The MPC will be guided by the inflation target set by the government last month. It has to ensure that consumer inflation stays within 2 to 6%. There are expectations that policy rates would be cut in the upcoming review in the backdrop of easing inflation. Governor Patel had recently downplayed the risk of inflation and said that factors like goods and services tax (GST) won’t push inflation. The RBI had since January 2015 had reduced policy rates by 150 basis points with an aim to boost economic growth.
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