RBI to focus on containing CAD, Inflation: RBI Governor

31 May 2013 Evaluate

Diminishing the hopes of further rate cut, RBI Governor D Subbarao said that there is upside risks to inflation and containing the high current account deficit (CAD) would be priority, adding that India’s economic growth is significantly moderated, while retail inflation is still high. The growth has slowed down to decade low at around 5 percent in FY13. While, the wholesale price based inflation (WPI) fell to over three-year low of 4.89% in April, retail inflation was high at 9.39%.

By adding further, Subbarao said that the country’s balance of payment is under stress and high CAD is leading to the weakening of rupee. The governor emphasized that large CAD is the biggest risk factor to the economy and said ‘global prices especially commodity prices had certainly softened in the last few months, but it would not take the soft prices for granted’. High oil and gold imports pushed Current Account Deficit (CAD) to a record high of 6.7% in the third quarter of   previous fiscal.

The central bank is scheduled to announce its mid-quarter policy review on June 17. In its last review, the RBI had cut the key interest rates by 0.25 percent.

 

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