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GDP Revival Forecast: RBI

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The Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced the extension of its accommodative policy stance for the rest of this year as well as 2021-22 and forecasted a GDP revival in coming months.

  • RBI had previously introduced a number of measures in its Monetary Policy Report for dealing with the Covid-19 induced economic setback.

Key Points

  • Decisions:
    • RBI has kept key policy rates unchanged to revive growth of the economy and mitigate the economic impact of Covid-19 pandemic.
      • The Repo and reverse repo rate unchanged at 4% and 3.35% respectively because of high inflation.
    • Risk weights, i,e, the capital required to be set aside on individual home loans, have been relaxed and the loan limit for retail and small business borrowers have been raised.
      • This would give a boost to the job-intensive real estate sector that has been suffering in the pandemic.
    • Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) will be available round the clock.
    • Targeted Long Term Repo Operations (TLTRO) of Rs 1,00,000 crore for the revival of specific sectors, and Open Market Operations (OMOs) for State Development Loans (SDLs) have been announced.
      • This will assure market participants of access to liquidity and easy finance conditions.
      • Long Term Reverse Repo Operation (LTRO) is a mechanism to facilitate the transmission of monetary policy actions and the flow of credit to the economy. This helps in injecting liquidity in the banking system.
      • Open Market Operations (OMO) is one of the quantitative monetary policy tools which is employed by the central bank of a country to control the money supply in the economy.
      • OMOs are conducted by the RBI by way of sale or purchase of government securities (g-secs) to adjust money supply conditions.
      • The central bank sells g-secs to commercial banks to remove liquidity from the system and buys back g-secs to infuse liquidity into the system.

Forecasts:
  • GDP Revival
    • Real gross domestic product (GDP) in FY21 will fall by 9.5%.
    • GDP growth may break out of contraction and enter a positive zone by Q4 of the current fiscal year (2020-21)
    • Starting from a modest recovery the economic activity is expected to gain traction in Q3.
    • The real GDP growth in 2020-21 is expected to be negative at -9.8% in Q2 of 2020-21,-5.6% in Q3 and 0.5% in Q4.
    • Real GDP is likely to grow by 20.6% in the Q1 of 2021-22.
  • Decline in Inflation:
    • Inflation is expected to decline in the next 3 months and is likely to ease to the projected target of around 4% (within a band of +/- 2%) by Q4 of FY’21.
    • Supply chain disruptions is the major factor driving up inflation. As supply chains are restored, the inflation would come down.
    • The retail inflation growth was 6.69%, as of August 2020.
  • Restart of Economy
    • The economy is likely to witness a three-speed recovery i.e. individual sectors showing varying paces with fastest, modest and slowest recovery rates.
    • Apart from agriculture, sectors such as fast-moving consumer goods, automobiles, pharma and power would revive first.
Source: The Hindu
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