RBI will take a note of falling inflation: Subbarao

15 May 2013 Evaluate

With India’s headline wholesale inflation falling below 5% in April, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor D Subbarao said, the central bank will take a note of falling inflation while discussing potential interest rate cuts. Inflation measured in terms of Wholesale Price Index (WPI) fell to over 3-year low of 4.89% in April compared to 5.96% in March this year and 7.50% April 2012 and has returned to the RBI comfort zone.

By adding further, the governor said that the country’s economic growth is expected to pick up speed in the second half of this year, and added that India would control its current account deficit and bring it down to 2.5% from the current level of 5%.

In the last fiscal, India’s GDP growth slowed down to around 5%, which was decade low. However, the government expects the economy to grow by 6.1-6.7% in the current fiscal. Moreover, the country macro-economic indicators such as industrial production and inflation are also improving. The industrial output grew by 2.5% in March this year revealing that there is acceleration in production. 

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