RBI expresses the need of policy interventions to bring down inflation

04 Feb 2013 Evaluate

To bring down inflation on a sustained basis, the Reserve Bank (RBI) has expressed the need of policy interventions on several fronts. RBI executive director Deepak Mohanty said 'it is important to aim for nutritional security not only to harness the demographic dividend stemming from our sizable young population but also to contain food prices. This will require addressing the supply-demand imbalance in the agricultural sector and modernising the supply chain.'

While, wholesale Price Index (WPI) based inflation declined to 7.18% in December from 7.74% over the same period a year ago. But still it is much above the comfort level of RBI. The apex bank’s technical assessment has also suggested that the threshold level of inflation for India is in the range of 4 to 6% and if inflation persists beyond this level, then it could lower economic growth over the medium-term. 
 
RBI executive director stressed the need of depth financial markets as well as calibrating monetary policy with growth-inflation dynamics. He said that to ensure industrial capacity utilisation and productivity improvement India needs to have a reliable power supply as well as availability of industrial raw materials, which will reduce reliance on imports of products for which domestic capacity exists and will moderate inflation. By adding further he said that maintaining the exchange rate stability is important to cushion transmission of international price pressures in commodities, particularly crude oil. 'This will require management of the current account in our balance of payments with the rest of the world at sustainable levels'.  

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