Chief Economic Adviser Raghuram Rajan said that all options to fund the country's record-high current account deficit are being considered. India's Current Account Deficit (CAD) stood at $18.1 billion, or 3.6% of the GDP in the March quarter, sharply lower from the historically high level of 6.7% seen in the December quarter. However, the current account gap for the full fiscal year ending in March 2013 widened $87.8 billion, which was 4.8% of GDP, compared with $78.2 billion or 4.2% of GDP, a year earlier.
Further, finance ministry's chief economic adviser defending Reserve Bank of India's move to manage volatility in the rupee, said that policy measures were geared in such a way that they would stabilise the weak rupee but do only 'minimal damage' to growth.
Notably, Raghuram’s comments came a day after State Bank of India chairman Pratip Chaudhuri opined that RBI to consider more transparent measures such as hiking interest rates in order to stabilise the domestic currency instead of simply tightening liquidity.
The RBI, in its latest attempt to shore-up the Indian currency, reduced the liquidity adjustment facility for each bank from 1% of total deposits to 0.5% and also asked banks to maintain higher average CRR (cash reserve ratio) of 99% of the requirement on daily basis as against earlier 70%.
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