Retail inflation averaged scorching 10% in that period. Between March 2010 & October 2011, central bank raised repo rate 13 times, from 4.75% to 8.5% per annum.
In my view as the finance secretary during UPA II govt, the least RBI could have done was not to further depress the sentiment with doomsday prophecies.
In its monetary policy statement, the RBI projected the real GDP growth for the current fiscal at 6.5%, while the retail inflation was projected at 5.4%.
Speaking at an event organised by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Das said policy challenges for the region have accentuated due to the Covid-19 pandemic & the war in Ukraine.
With the second term of three years, Das will head the RBI till December 2024. The decision was taken by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet headed by PM Narendra Modi.
Speaking at the National Academy of Audit and Accounts, Das emphasised the need to improve the quality and depth of audit and said RBI has taken a host of steps in that direction.
Shaktikanta Das said a lockdown, like the one experienced last year, is unlikely and asserted there was no need for a downward revision of RBI's 10.5% GDP growth forecast for FY22.
The Southeast Asian theatre is central to the Great Power contest between the US and China. It’s also a landscape where middle powers—France, the UK, Turkey—are shaping the strategic environment.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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