The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has left the key lending rate (repo rate) unchanged at 6.50% in view of inflationary concerns and the possibility of a flare-up in the Middle East crisis that could jack up commodity prices. This is the tenth straight instance of the policy repo rate being left unchanged by the country’s central bank. The RBI MPC also left the Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) and Standing Deposit Facility (SDF) rates unchanged at 6.75% and 6.25%, respectively. However, it has changed monetary stance to ‘neutral’ from ‘withdrawal of accommodation’ earlier. Besides, India's GDP forecast for the current financial year have been left unchanged at 7.2% by the RBI.