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RESERVE BANK OF INDIA SYSTEM
RESERVE BANK OF INDIA SYSTEM
However, later, the Government of India passed the Reserve Bank of India (Transfer to Public
Ownership) Act, 1948. As per its provisions, the ownership of the Reserve Bank of India was
transferred from private entities to the government. This is called the nationalization of the RBI, which
transformed it from a privately owned entity to a fully government-owned entity.
After nationalization in 1949, it emerged as the Central Bank of India and no more remained a ‘bank’ in the
technical sense.
The structure of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) can be seen as follows: