The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) could relax the repo rate by at least 50 bps in the next 6-12 months to kick-start investments if growth conditions remain weak, while consumer price index based inflation moderates, as per the industry body Assocham. Indian industrial output for the period April-January 2013-14 stood flat over the corresponding period of the previous year. On the other hand, CPI inflation eased to a 25-month low of 8.10% in February, as against 8.79% in January.
Assocham President Rana Kapoor has asserted that the RBI should adopt proactive liquidity management through a term repo calendar, along with expansion of the term repo window from the current Rs 89,000 crore in order to ease money market volatility and ensure credit flow to productive sectors. Further, the central bank could recalibrate savings bank deposit rates to a minimum of 6% and keep it deregulated for rates above 6% in order to incentivise financial savings.
Further, the Assocham President suggested that well-rated Indian banks with strong balance sheets should be allowed the flexibility to borrow through bonds and medium-term notes, in order to garner medium/long-term funds from good quality institutional investors. This borrowing should be over-and-above 100 per cent of Tier-I capital and considered only for banks with acceptable International Risk Ratings with minimum tenor of three years. Banks were allowed to borrow up to 100 per cent of Tier-I Capital and swap it with RBI at a concessional rate- a facility that expired on November 30, 2013.
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