Price stability required for long-term growth: RBI Governor

05 Apr 2013 Evaluate

Concerned over the deteriorating macro-economic conditions in the country, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor D Subbarao expressed the need for a stable price mechanism for ensuring sustainable growth in the long term as it would help investors and consumers to take informed decisions. Regarding the effectiveness of the monetary policy to deal with the current economic woes, Subbarao said that monetary policy should be effective to contain inflation and push the economy towards growth. It is important for the savings rate to go up and the government must improve quality of expenditure to contain the fiscal deficit and reduce the subsidies. 

During an interview Subbarao said “the economic growth in FY13 was expected to be the lowest in a decade and we are going to have the highest current account deficit this year. Inflation has come off the peak but is still quite elevated and investment has decelerated”. The RBI governor was however optimistic about the economic growth in the future and said that India's growth story is robust and its growth drivers are all intact and if we do the right things from now we can achieve the high economic growth in coming years.  

During the April-February period of FY13, India's fiscal deficit was 5.07 trillion Indian rupees, or 97.4 percent of the FY13 target while, the deficit was 94.6 percent of the budgetary target in the same period of the previous fiscal year.

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