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1. Prologue
2. What is monetary policy?
3. Quantitative Tools
1. #1: Reserve Ratios (SLR and CRR)
2. #2: Open Market Operation (OMO)
3. #3: Policy Rate
4. Bank Rate
1. Liquidity Adjustment facility (LAF)
2. LAF Repo Rate
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3. Marginal Standing facility (MSF)
4. Reverse repo Rate
5. Repo Rate in recent years:
4. Monetary Policy: limitations
5. Qualitative Tools
1. #1: Margin Requirements/ LTV
2. #2: Consumer credit regulation
3. #3: Selective credit control
4. #4: Moral Suasion
6. Monetary policy tools: Quantiative vs Qualitative
7. Appendix
1. #1: Why High SLR and High CRR are bad?
2. #2: Narsimhan (I) Committee 1991
3. #3: Narsimhan (II) Committee 1998
8. Mock Questions
Prologue
Next article is about RBI appointed Urjit Patel Committee on Monetary policy framework.
But before dwelling into that, we must recap the basic concepts of what is monetary policy: its tools
and limitations. Otherwise Urjit won’t make much sense.
Hence in a way, this whole article is a prologue to next article.
Initially people used barter system for trading. But the barter system had many problems (click me
(https://mrunal.org/2013/12/economy-barter-money-bitcoin-fungibility-double-coincidence-of-wants-
division-of-labour-part-1.html#barter-lim)). Therefore, people switched to money system.
Financial intermediates = middlemen who help in the circular ow of money between households
and business rms.
There are two types of nancial intermediaries: banking institution and non-banking nancial
institutions.
RBI controls (all) banks and (some) non-banking nancial institutions.
RBI’s main job is to control Money supply in this game, and thereby ght in ation and de ation.
In ation = price rise = bad for economy, you know that by common sense.
But De ation = price decrease = we can buy things at a lower price. Isn’t that good? Why is de ation bad
for economy?
Ans. Every business has ‘ xed cost of production’ say minimum light bill, phone bill, o ce rent, sta
salary etc. So, if prices keep falling and falling (say of Nano car), then car marker will su er losses. He
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has no motivation to expand business. He wants to cut down his production costs, by ring some of
the employees= less new jobs created= unemployment = social unrest.
If prices of everything fall- then custom duty, VAT, excise duty, service tax- their collection will also
decrease. Then government has less money to spend on education, healthcare, social sector, defense,
law and order = poverty, disease, crime.
by the way
Does RBI
TERM meaning
want it?
stagnation + in ation
policy to stop the fall in price levels, but without causing rise
REFLATION yes
in the price levels (in ation).
Quantitative Tools
SLR A Bank has to set aside this much money into gold or RBI approved securities. 23%
A Bank has to set aside this much as reserve. Bank cannot lend it to anyone. Bank earns
CRR 4%
no interest rate or pro t on this.
Observe:
Right now
People deposited total this much money in SBI (net demand & TIME liabilities
100 cr.
NDTL)
CRR (4%) [SBI has to keep this much cash aside for reserve] -4 cr
SLR (23%) [SBI has to invest this much money in RBI approved securities] -23 cr.
100-4-23=73
Money left with SBI
Cores.
Originally 100 cr
SLR 40 -40
CRR 15 -15
You can see, when Rajan has raised reserve ratio, money with SBI is reduced (from 73 crores to just 45
crores.)
Imagine you’re a money lender. You’ve 100 crore rupees and you must make Rs.1 crore pro t in a
year.
Obviously, you should lend it @1% interest rate. (because 1% of 100 crore = 1 crore.)
But what if you’ve only 2 crore rupees, and you still want to make Rs.1 croer pro t in a year?
Now you must lend it @50% interest rate. (because 50% of 2 cores = 1 crore.)
Observe that as money decreased (from 100 to 2), loan interest rate increased (from 1% to 50%).
Same happens when SBI is left with less money (after RBI increases reserve ratio).
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Situation: Economy has in ationary trend. Prices of goods and services increasing every day.
Consequences:
You may doubt- what about supply side bottlenecks, what about cost push and demand pull in ation : I’m
not going into all that details at the moment, else this article will become longer than ve kilometers.
Open Market Operation= when RBI starts buying/selling government securities to control money
supply.
Government securities= piece of paper. It says something like this “give me Rs.100, I’ll give you 8%
interest rate for next ten years and after that I’ll repay the principle of Rs.100.” This is how government
borrows from others.
Situation: Economy has in ationary trend. Prices of goods and services increasing every day.
Solution: RBI starts selling government securities in open market.
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Result: SBI buys them and thus SBI’s lending money is reduced. Wait. How?
Imagine Rajan is selling “sabzi” (vegetables). If SBI’s chairman Arundhati Madam goes to buy vegetables.
Obviously madam’s money will decrease when she buys vegetables.
During de ation, RBI will do the reverse. (i.e. RBI buys “Sabzi” from SBI). How will it stop de ation? Think in
your head.
Open Market Operation (OMO) RBI sell securities RBI buy securities
Mock Question
In 2013, UPSC walla asked a very chillar question from this topic.
It means you’ve unsure of the answer. 50:50. So you mark the question number (say 45), at
Mark n
the back of your question paper. At the end of exam, if you’re left with 10-15 free minutes.
Review.
You look at the question again, and try to solve it.
No.
Because it’s a de nition based question. If you don’t know the de nition of “OMO” you might tick a
wrong answer and fail. Most of the sincere players fail in prelims because of this reason. They push
their luck in negative marking to overcome an ‘imaginary’ cuto and thus dig up their own grave.
(especially during last 10-15 minutes of the exam.)
Moral of the story: never put “fact/de nition” type MCQs in Mark-n-Review.
Let’s solve a bit more complicated MCQ from 2012’s CSAT paper.
Q.Which of the following measures would result in an increase in the money supply in economy?
Answer choice
a. Only 1
b. 2 and 4
c. 1 and 3
d. 2, 3 and 4
Whenever you face such multiple statement type MCQs, always use “elimination method”. First nd a
statement that is de nitely right or de nitely wrong and eliminate choices accordingly.
Focus on rst statement “Purchase of government securities from public by central bank”: will it
increase money supply in the system?
Imagine Rajan puts an ad in newspaper: bring your Sabzi (vegetables), I’ll buy it. Junta gives him their
own veggies, Rajan gives them money. (a classic buy and sell).
Ultimate result: money supply increased in the system- because junta got the money. Meaning #1
de nitely correct.
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If you think it on technical terms. Central bank purchases government securities=OMO (Open market
operation), where money shifts hands from RBI to people.
Hence money supply increased. (In reality, money doesn’t go to ‘aam admi’ directly, but those bankers
and non-banking institutions who participate in OMO). Anyways, #1 is right, Eliminate choices that do
not have #1
a. Only 1
b. 2 and 4
c. 1 and 3
d. 2, 3 and 4
Statement #3 says “Borrowing by government from the central bank.” (So, will it increase money
supply?)
How does Government borrow from Central bank? Does Mohan just callup Rajan and demand 1 lakh
crores? No. Mohan will have to give Rajan that much government securities (vegetables) and Rajan will
give him cash.
Is money supply increased? Yes Mohan sold veggies to Rajan and got Money. Whenever Rajan buys
veggies and pays – the money supply is increased. (this is similar to Open Market operation)
Besides, Mohan can then use money to pay salaries of government sta , pay for rail-road-bridges and
other infrastructure projects, pay for MNREGA and so on. Therefore Answer C: 1 and 3 correct.
Counter- argument?
What if Rajan subsequently sells those (Mohan’s) securities to bankers. Then banker’s money reduced.
Hence #3 is wrong. Therefore nal answer A only 1.
In 2012’s Question paper Test series “A”, this is Q77: and its o cial answer is “C”. Therefore, both 1 and 3
are correct.
Attempt This question is attemptable if you don’t drag the logic too much in statement #3.
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Yes, it can be put under “mark and review” because this is not an absolute fact/ absolute
Mark n de nition type MCQ. If you apply some concepts, you can eliminate wrong choices. But still if
Review. doubt persists in the mind (e.g whether Statement 3 is right or not) then it’s always safe to
skip and avoid negative marking.
By the way, What about Statement #2: Deposit of currency in commercial banks by the public. (Will it
increase money supply or not?)
Viewpoint 1: yes. Because bank can used it to expand loanable credit. (as explained in Money creation
topic in Class 12 NCERT Macroeconomics page 39 onwards).
Viewpoint 2: no. (Because Bank will have to put some money aside as CRR- so that much money is less
in the system.)
Either way it doesn’t change the answer. Because We know that statement 1 is de nitely correct. And
there is no option where (1,2) are given simultaneously.
Anyways, Moving on…So far, RBI has two tools under monetary policy:
“Policy rate”= in case of India its Repo rate. Before moving further, let’s refresh our concepts of Bank rate,
LAF, MSF, Repo and Reverse repo.
Bank Rate
When banks borrow long term funds from RBI. They’ve to pay this much interest rate to RBI. [Note:
di erent books give di erent explanation of Bank Rate. I’ve used NDTV’s de nition
(http://pro t.ndtv.com/news/corporates/article-repo-rate-and-other-terms-explained-302105)]
At present, Bank rate= 9%
Collateral: nothing. (Bank can borrow money without pledging government securities to RBI)
Bank rate is not the main tool to control money supply these days.
Nowadays, RBI uses LAF Repo rate as the main tool, to control money supply.
Penal rates are linked with Bank rate. For example, If a bank doesn’t maintain CRR, SLR as per the
prescribed limit.
Then RBI can impose penalty interest on such notorious bank.
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At present, Penalty rate = Bank rate + 3% (or 5% in some cases)
Meaning if Bank rate = 9% then penalty rate=9+3=12%
Anyways, what if RBI wants to ght in ation using bank rate as a “tool”?
Obviously they should increase bank rate. That way it becomes harder (more expensive) for banks to
borrow from RBI.=> SBI increases its loan rates (to keep the pro t margin same). Result?
Open Market Operation (OMO) RBI sell securities RBI buy securities
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If client borrows money from RBI (for short term) then client has to pay this much interest
Repo
rate to RBI. At present Repo is 8%. (article written on 29th Jan 2014)
If client lends money to RBI (for short term) then RBI has to pay this much interest rate to
Reverse
client. RBI doesn’t like headache. So they made a simple formula: Reverse repo rate= Repo
Repo
MINUS 1%=8-1=7%.
Collateral:
Problem with running a “adda/gambling-den” = sometimes client drinks too much desi liquor and
passes out on oor. Sometimes he even dies because of ‘hooch’. Sometimes police raids the den, and
clients run away with cash and register.
If such things happen, Rajan will be at loss. So, he demands “government securities” as collataral. So
even if client doesn’t repay money on time, Rajan can sell those securities (in open market operations)
and recover money.
(http://www. ickr.com/photos/97816112@N02/12220419083/)
Scenario
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SBI chairman Arundhati ma’m wants to borrow Rs.100 crore (for short term).
She gives her stash of government securities to Rajan.
Rajan gives her Rs.100 crore.
Madam Also signs an agreement
“I, Arundhati Bhattacharya, agree to buy same securities from Rajan, at 108 crores after 14 days.”
Notice that she has agreed to “re-purchase” same securities from Rajan. Therefore its called “Repo.”
And how much interest rate did she pay on this “loan”? [108-100]/100=8%. That’s our repo rate.
Important:
Recall that SBI also has to keep part of her money in RBI approved securities (under SLR).
So Madam cannot USE those government securities to borrow under Repo Rate from Rajan.
No limit. You may borrow as Maximum 0.75% of NTDL. To put this in crude words, if SBI
much as you want. (as long as you received 100 crores from aam-admi under savings account,
have government securities to current account, xed deposit etc. then SBI can borrow only upto
pledge to me.) Rs.75 lakhs from RBI.
Rajan decides Repo rate (8% right MSF = Repo Rate +1% = 8+1=9%. (earlier this margin of 1% used to
now) be higher. But nowadays just 1%!)
We already know how to apply SLR, CRR and OMO to ght in ation (and de ation.) let me paste the table
again.
Reserve Ratio
Increase them. Decrease them.
(CRR, SLR)
Open Market
Operation RBI sell securities RBI buy securities
(OMO)
Reverse Repo it’s value is linked with Repo, hence cannot be increased/decreased independently.
Marginal it’s value is linked with Repo, hence cannot be increased/decreased independently.
Standing Facility Besides MSF= temporary re ghting, cash mismanagement.
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We learned that Rajan doesn’t use Bank rate much, to control money supply.
We learned that Rajan doesn’t decide Reverse repo and MSF. (they’re automatically -1% and +1% of
Repo rate).
Thus the only thing Rajan has to decide under monetary policy= Repo rate. Therefore, Repo rate is
called the “policy rate”
Situation: Economy has in ationary trend. Prices of goods and services increasing every day.
Solution: Rajan increases “Repo rate”. (say from 7.75% to 8%).
Result: it becomes expensive for SBI to borrow from Rajan. They’ll increase their own rates as well.
Wait. How?
If prices of Onion rise in Maharashtra’s wholesale yard (in Lasangaon), then immediately, retail veggie
@Ahmedabad will also raise their onion prices to keep the pro t margin same.
Consequences:
1. SBI raises its loan interest rate (to keep pro t margin same)
2. Businessmen borrow less money from SBI.
3. Businessmen donot start new business. Donot expand existing business.
4. Less jobs
5. Less income
6. Less demand
7. Ultimately shopkeeper will bring down the prices to attract people into buying more things.
Open Market Operation (OMO) RBI sell securities RBI buy securities
(http://www. ickr.com/photos/97816112@N02/12220418853/)
From above above graph, you can see RBI has frequently changed its repo rate to combat both
in ationary and de ationary trend. But You’d agree that in ation has not been contained. No matter what
number juggling or statistical interpretations are given- the hardship of common man has not stopped- be
it milk, petrol, onion, LPG anything.
Agreed that prices of onion, sugar, pulses and food are subject to vagaries of monsoon and black
marketeering. Rajan cannot do anything about it.
Agreed that crude oil prices are subject to rupee-Dollar exchange rate, external factors and
government’s de-regulation of their prices. Rajan doesn’t have much control over this.
But still even in the non-food, non-fuel type commodities- RBI’s monetary policies have failed to curb
in ation. WHY? Observe the following image.
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(http://www. ickr.com/photos/97816112@N02/12220829396/)
Suppose Vijay Mallay got 100 crore loan from State Bank of India. If you trace the ‘source’ of that money,
it’ll turnout 60-70 crores came from bank’s savings account, xed deposit etc. Rajan lends money in repo
rate –yes, but that doesn’t mean banks depend only on Rajan to arrange the cash for its clients.
Suppose Rajan reduces repo rate from 8% to 5%. Banks are not legally required to reduce their loan
interest rates.
Home loan for women (upto 75 lakh) 0.10% above base rate 10.10%
Meaning if SBI changes her Base rate then all of above loan interest rates will change automatically.
If Rajan changes his repo rate, will SBI change her base rate?
Not always.
Because those common men are the main suppliers of money to SBI.
RBI is not the main supplier of money to SBI.
SBI will only change its base rate, when she feels necessary for its own pro t / loss compared to its
competitors.
Not always.
In developing countries like India, most people park their money in only four things: savings account,
xed deposit (FD), provident fund and LIC. We’ve mutual funds, we’ve NPS, we’ve ULIPs, we’ve Rajiv
Gandhi equity savings scheme –
but most people (particularly the older generation) feels insecure in into such new things. Therefore
lot of money ows into Savings accounts and xed deposits= SBI’s main source of money.
But, In advanced economies, like USA, people don’t invest large portion their income in savings
account or FD. They’ve variety of investment options. So, for those American banks, their own Central
bank (US Feds) is a signi cant money supplier.
Hence US Feds’ monetary policy shows faster impact on their American Banks, THAN Rajan’s monetary
policy on Desi banks.
1. People don’t have many investment alternatives. Commercial banks have large deposits. Rajan is not
the main or even prominent money supplier for these banks. Whatever Rajan does, its e ect will be
felt only after 6-8 months but by that time, new factors would cause another rise in in ation and Rajan
will have to start from scratch again.
2. Non-Monetized economy: in rural areas, many transactions are still of barter nature. (E.g. kiranawalla
cum middleman supplies seeds, pesticides, fertilizers- in exchange of share in farmer’s produce.)
3. Lack of nancial inclusion. Since most people are not in the banking net. They rely on Shro s and
moneylenders. Many of them circulate the black money of cops and politicians, and charge 36%
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interest rate on loans. Rajan has no control over them.
4. Monsoon uncertainty, cyclone, ood, draughts and their e ect on food production. Food in ation
=>newspaper walla, washerman, barber, car mechanic everyone will raise their service fees to
accommodate their raised cost of living. Rajan has no control over them.
5. Crude oil and gold import + negative e ect when rupee weakens. Rajan can try to bring 1$=Rs.65 to
$1=63 Rs. But he has not enough forex reserves to bring $1=Rs.50.
6. Fiscal de cit, illogical schemes. e.g MNREGA worker digs a temporary road. After rst rain, t he road is
wiped out= physical infrastructure added to economy… no. Wages raised…..yes. = this mismatch leads
to more in ation.
7. Subsidy leakage, Black money, underground economy.
8. And most importantly, because Rajan uses Multi-indicator approach, he focuses on WPI (minus food
and fuel). That’s why Urjit Patel recommends him to target CPI. More on that in next article.
So far, we learned that RBI has two sets of tools/instruments under monetary policy:
1. Reserve ratios
2. OMO We’ll see them in a moment
3. Policy rate (Repo Rate)
Qualitative Tools
Mallya wants to borrow from SBI. He pledges his company’s shares worth Rs.100 crores as collateral.
For such loans, Rajan can prescribe margin, say 65%.
In that case even if Mallya pledges 100 crores worth shares, SBI can give him 100-65=only 35 Crore
rupees as loan.
Using this tool, Rajan can control money supply. e.g. during in ation, he should increase margin
requirement, so Mallya can borrow less=> less job=>less income=>less demand=>prices reduced.
If Rajan changes repo rate, it is not compulsory for SBI to change her loan interest rates. (we saw how
Alok Nath keeps giving money to SBI, so they are not entirely dependent on Rajan.)
But if Rajan changes margin requirements, then SBI and all other banks must obey it. In other words,
this tool has direct impact on money supply.
Suppose Nano car sells @1 lakh and Rajan has made rule that downpayment cannot be less than 30%.
It means customer must bring Rs.30,000 from his pocket and bank can only give him maximum 70000
as loan.
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How can Rajan ght in ation with this tool?
Increase downpayment from 30%=>50% (meaning bank can give less loan. Customer himself has to
arrange lot of money from his own pocket)
Rajan can make rule “banks cannot accept EMI less than 5000 on car loan.” Observe:
Case #1: 100 EMIs worth 1000 each = 1,00,000. (ignore interest rates)
In case #2: some of the lower-middleclass families may postpone their decision to purchase nano car
(Because they can’t a ord higher EMIs.)
Result= less demand=>prices reduced. (indirectly- because car mechanics get less work, number-plate
painters get less orders etc. so they reduce fees to attract new clients and retain existing clients.)
Thus, Rajan can control money supply by changing downpayment and installment (EMI) rules.
Under this, Rajan can speci cally instruct bankers not to give loans to traders of certain commodities
e.g. sugar, gur, edible oil etc.
even if the said trader is ready to mortgage his shares/bonds/factory/machine/vehicle anything.
this prevents speculations/ hoarding of commodities using money borrowed from banks.
1. Please reduce giving automobile loans- instead park your money in government securities. (above the
SLR requirements.)
2. I’ve reduced my repo rate, now you also reduce your base rate.
Rajan will try to in uence those bankers via- direct meetings, conference, giving media statements, giving
speeches @public seminars, university convocations etc. (even where bankers are not present.) He’ll do
so, to build a public opinion, media opinion and in uence those bankers by making them feel ‘guilty’.
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Means RBI gives punishment to erring banks. Punishment can involve: penal interest,
Direct
refuses to lend them money from LAF etc. and in worst case even cancels their banking
action
license.
Let’s recap
Quantitative Qualitative
Q. RBI Acts as banker’s bank. This would imply which of the following?
Correct Statement
1. Only 2 and 3
2. Only 1 and 2
3. Only 1 and 3
4. 1, 2 and 3
Approach:
Whenever you face such 3 statement MCQ or 4 statement MCQ, Always use “elimination” method. First
you nd out a statement that is de nitely right or de nitely wrong. In above case, we can see #2 is
de nitely right. RBI lends funds to banks in the times of need (Repo, MSF)
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So let’s eliminate choices that don’t involve statement #2
1. Only 2 and 3
2. Only 1 and 2
3. Only 1 and 3
4. 1, 2 and 3
This did not help much. We still have three choices left. Observe statement #1: Other banks retain
their deposits with RBI. That is correct with respect to cash reserve ratio. CRR is one type of deposit
that banks make to RBI. (RBI doesn’t pay interest on it- that’s a di erent story).
Meaning #1 is also correct eliminate choices that donot have #1
1. Only 2 and 3
2. Only 1 and 2
3. Only 1 and 3
4. 1, 2 and 3
Only two choices left and the ultimate solution = is statement #3 is correct or not?
Viewpoint #1 Viewpoint #2
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Upto you. But if you start skipping all such question (OMO, Money supply, Banker’s
bank), because you’re completely unaware of those topics=that is not pardonable.it
Skip
shows you’re underprepared for this exam. You should either change your study
method or change the game- try for some easier exam.
This question is attemptable, if you don’t ‘nitpick’ over the word “advises” in third
Attempt
statement.
If you’ve thoroughly prepared the RBI’s monetary tools (both qualitative and
quantitative), you can solve it by applying concepts/principles- particularly the moral
Mark n
suasion thing. But if you’re still doubtful over whether #3 is right or wrong, then better
Review
skip. If you skip because you’re ‘doubtful’ = that is pardonable. But if you skip because
you’re completely unaware of this topic= non-bailable o ense.
Appendix
These are the topics I wanted to discuss in the article, but they would break the ow of other topics.
Hence writing them @bottom:
From the discussion so far, you might think why Rajan only focuses on Repo rate to control money supply.
Why not simply raise SLR and CRR requirements.
Prior to LPG reforms in 90s, RBI used to keep SLR and CRR very high. Let’s take an example
Using this money, bank has to count its Net Demand and Time liabilities (NDTL), every fortnight.
Suppose its 100 crores.
Both CRR and SLR are counted on this gure. In the old times, these reserve ratios used to be as high
as 15% and 40% respectively. Observe the e ect:
Reserve ratios
From 100 crores, barely 45 crores left with the bank. But adding insult to the injury- even here RBI
mandates Priority sector lending (PSL). Meaning, at least 40% of the loans has to be given to farmers,
small businessmen, students etc. groups.
Reserve ratios
Money left for big borrowers (i.e. big businessmen, upper middleclass) =45-18=27 crores.
By the way, PSL is counted on annual basis while SLR, CRR counted on fortnight basis so above table is
technically incorrect but I’ve plugged in those numbers only for the sake of explanation.
before the 90s- Government would even interfere and order public sector banks to give PSL-loans
@cheap interest rates. The local politicians would coerce the branch manager to give PSL-loans to
ineligible people. They default on loans, Branch manager cannot recover money (because defaulter
will goto civil court then taarikh pe taarikh.) So, bank would have to forget about most of those 18
crores given in PSL loans.
Anyways you can see people deposited 100 crores in the bank yet bank is left with barely 27 crores
(over which, bank has “Freedom” to decide whom they should give the loan.)
1. High cost of credit (because bank will try to make maximum pro t from those 27 crores- so bank will
charge very high interest rate on the business loans- to pay o for the sta salaries, branch o ce
rents and everything.)
2. Businessman cannot expand his business.
3. Less exports.
4. Less tax income for the government.
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So in a way- that was also one of the factors leading to Balance of Payment crisis (and subsequently LPG
reforms.) You can read more about that in NCERT Class 11- chapter 2 and 3.
Plagued by problems and losses in nationalized banks, Government of India formed this Committee.
Recommendations were:
1. Deregulate interest rates. Let the banks decide their loan interest rates. Accepted. Gradually, we
moved to the Base Rate system.
2. PSL loans should be given at normal interest rates. Accepted (but with exception=> interest
subvention- that we saw under Nachiket articles.)
3. NPA/Loan default matter should be handled by separate body and not civil courts. Result: Debt
recovery tribunal created in 1993. Ultimately SARFAESI Act in 2002.
4. Reduce CRR, SLR. Accepted. Today we’ve them @4% and 23% respectively.
5. Allow Private banks and foreign banks. RBI invited applications in 1993. ICICI, Axis, HDFC and many
others got license.
6. Liberate Branch expansion policy. Done (Except that 25% rural branching mandate we saw under
Nachiket articles).
7. Prepare NBFC regulatory framework. Accepted.
8. Government should reduce shareholding (and thereby its o cial in uence) in the public sector banks.
Government agreed. Today government’s shareholding in SBI =~60%.
1. allow VRS in the banks so they can get rid of excessive sta .
2. Suggested additional Legal reforms for loan recovery. =>SARFAESI 2002
(https://mrunal.org/2012/12/economy-sarfaesi-asset-reconstruction-company-arc-security-receipt-sr-
qib-drt.html).
3. Computerization, electronic fund transfer, legal framework => Payment and Settlement Act=>Retail
(ECS, NEFT, credit Card) + Wholesale (RTGS)
4. Permit new private /foreign banks. RBI invited license in 2001= Yes Bank and Kotak Mahindra got
licenses. 2013: RBI again invited applications for bank licenses.
[Note: list of recommendations not exhaustive, I’ve only highlighted important topics that show ‘evolution’
of banking sector in recent times.]
Mock Questions
Q7. To counter the e ect of de ation, which of the following steps should RBI initiate?
Answer choices
a. only 1 and 2
b. only 2 and 3
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c. only 1 and 3
d. 1, 2 and 3
Q8. To counter in ation, which of the following steps should RBI initiate?
Answer choices
a. only 1 and 2
b. only 2 and 3
c. only 1 and 3
d. 1, 2 and 3
Choices:
a. only 1 and 2
b. only 2 and 3
c. only 1 and 3
d. all 1,2 and 3
Choices:
a. only 1 and 2
b. only 2 and 3
c. only 1 and 3
d. all 1, 2 and 3
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Q11. An increase in SLR
choices:
a. only 1 and 2
b. only 2 and 3
c. only 1 and 3
d. all 1,2 and 3
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When RBI varies Reserve Ratios to ght in ation or de ation , banks change
their Interest Rates to keep their pro t margin stagnant.
It’s the seller who really have to compromise with the pro t(he have to
bring down the S.P to increase the sale in time of in ation).
Is it a good thing or is there any other way of interpreting this?
Raghav REPLY
Mrunal Sir I understand that keeping money with RBI under Reverse Repo
rate doesn’t make sense as the bank can surely nd better interest rate
takers in the market. But let us suppose the policy rate is su ciently high
and the bank considers it safe to put some money under Reverse Repo with
RBI, can it put any amount that it wants, or can it “invest” in RBI, even for a
short time? Because the facility decision I guess lies with RBI whether to
sign a Reverse Repurchase agreement or not. Please clarify
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Awesome…
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just captivating,,, this is the way every explanation and example needs to be
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