RBI governor met finance minister ahead of credit policy review

22 Jul 2011 Evaluate

Ahead of the central bank's monetary policy review on July 26, RBI Governor D Subbarao met Finance Minister Pranab Mukhejee to discuss the macro economic situation of the country. Despite the fear of economic slowdown, RBI is expected to hike its key policy rate to control the sticky inflation.

After meeting finance minister, Governor said, “I have come to review the macro-economic situation with Finance Minister before the policy review, slated for July 26.' The meeting of RBI governor and finance minister was also attended by other senior official of finance ministry. 

On 26 July, the central bank is scheduled to announce the first quarterly credit policy for current financial year. In the quarterly policy review, RBI is expected to hike its short term leading (repo) and borrowing rate (reverse repo) rates by another 25 basis points. Since March 2010, central bank has increased its short term leading and borrowing rates by 2.5% or 250 basis points, as a result of RBI’s non-stop increase in interest rates, capital cost has increased significantly, and it also had adversely affected industry and consumers.  

Despite the anti-inflationary stance adopted by the RBI, headline inflation measured by Wholesale Price Index (WPI) had remained well above the RBI’s comfort level. For the month June, headline inflation increase to 9.44% from 9.06% in May.

RBI is facing challenging task of managing balance between inflation and growth. However, elevated inflation along with RBI’s anti-inflationary stance had affected the health of economic growth. Recently, government also revised its projection of country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) downward from 9% to 8.6 % on account of slower industrial production and stubbornly high inflation. The Index of Industrial Production for May stood at 5.6% which is nine month low level due to poor performance of manufacturing, mining and lower offtake of capital goods.

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