RBI should strike a balance between needs of pushing growth and controlling inflation: FM

23 Jan 2013 Evaluate

Finance Minister P Chidambaram, ahead of next week's monetary policy has said that Reserve Bank of India (RBI) must strike a balance between needs of pushing growth and controlling inflation. In order to contain inflation, the RBI has refrained from lowering interest rates despite nudging by Finance and Commerce ministries that it should take steps to address concerns on growth.

RBI is scheduled to announce its third quarter review of monetary policy on January 29 amid demands by the industry that it should lower interest rates to boost industrial output, which contracted by 0.1 percent in November. Before announcing the policy, the RBI Governor holds a customary meeting with the Finance Minister.

The Mumbai-headquartered central bank has, at many occasions, said inflation should be at around 5 percent. In its December policy review, the RBI had kept the key interest rate (repo rate) unchanged on concerns of inflation, but provided sufficient hints that it would reduce it in January.

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