RBI constitutes 'technical advisory group' to enhance share of export credit

30 Jan 2013 Evaluate

To enhance the share of export credit in the books of banks, Reserve Bank Governor D Subbarao on January, 29 constituted a technical advisory group to look for solutions to help the export orientated sector. Worried over the declining export, Subbarao said that the burgeoning current account deficit as 'biggest risk for inflation and macroeconomic management'.

The RBI governor D Subbarao said that banks' exposure to the exports sector still stands at a poor 5 percent or less in some cases, even when the RBI has allowed them to go up to 12 percent. By adding further, Subbarao said ‘apart from cost of financing, there are a number of non-cost issues for export sectors like transaction costs, accounting norms, documentation required, procedural difficulties. So, we decided to constitute a technical working group to go into these issues.’

Meanwhile, the constituted technical advisory group will be headed by RBI Executive Director G Padmanabhan. Apart from officials from the central bank, the committee will also be represented by Export Credit Guarantee Corporation, the Exim Bank, the Indian Banks Association and the Federation of Indian Exporters Organisation.

Further, as per the governor, in the last six months, the apex bank has taken certain steps to improve the export like raising the rupee export credit refinance facility to 50 percent from 15 percent and the recent dollar-rupee swap facility to $6.5 billion.

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