On February 20, 2015, a MoU on the issue of monetary policy framework (regarding inflation target) between the Union Finance Ministry and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Which was made public on March 2, 2015. The main goal of this agreement is to maintain value stability in view of the objective of economic growth. Under this, central bank will keep retail inflation below 6 percent by January 2016 and up to 4 percent by March 2017.
Agreement on the issue of monetary policy framework between the Central Government and the Reserve Bank of India
• The Reserve Bank will aim to bring down inflation to below 6 percent by January 2016. The target for the financial year 2016-17 and the subsequent years will be 4%, which would include a scope of 2% increase or decrease.
• In order to achieve the goal of inflation, RBI has been given an exemption to decide on the initiatives of monetary policy, but under this, it is necessary for the RBI that if there is a default in achieving the target in any period, The government has to report.
• The RBI will have to make a document public on every six months, giving details of inflation sources and estimates of inflation for a period of six to eight months.
• According to this agreement, the Finance Ministry has fixed two criteria, under which the inflation is more than six percent in the three consecutive quarters or the subsequent years of the financial year 2015-16 or the continuous three quarters of the year 2016-17. If there is less than two percent in the year, the RBI will be considered as unsuccessful in deciding the target.
• If there is a dispute regarding the presentation of the agreement, it will be resolved through a meeting between the RBI governor and the central government.
Be aware that the base year of inflation by the government was changed to year 2012 instead of 2010. In addition, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation rose to 5.11 percent in January 2015, which was 4.28 percent in December 2014.
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