RBI Governor blames UPA govt’s loose fiscal stance for Rupee’s sharp plunge

30 Aug 2013 Evaluate

The differences between Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s outgoing governor D Subbarao and the government came out in open, with the former squarely blaming the government for the domestic currency's sharp plunge, which he widely attributed to domestic structural factors, in last public speech. 

Outgoing RBI governor besides blaming the government for its 'loose fiscal stance' for the current economic woes warned that the root cause of rupee depreciation is 'domestic structural factors'. While, he acknowledged that the speed and timing of Rupee’s depreciation was due to market reaction to US Fed’s tapering plan, but was quick to add that the root cause behind depreciation were the problems in domestic structural factors and not solely the global factors, which were overplayed.

Blaming the loose fiscal stance of government during 2009-12 for slow growth and high inflation, the retiring governor underscored that faster fiscal consolidation could have made the monetary policy calibration less tight. Given that the governor has often been criticized from within the government for his tight money policy at the cost of growth. He blamed the government for mismanaging the Current Account Deficit (CAD), which has been running well above the sustainable level for three years in a row.

He reiterated that only reduction in CAD to a sustainable level could ensure some stability in the currency. Subbarao, however said, that in the interim 'we need to stabilise the market volatility, a task that falls within the domain of the Reserve Bank'.

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