RBI to remain watchful on growth, financial stability; GDP will reach 7.2% in current fiscal: Shaktikanta Das
FirstpostInflation has remained below target, averaging 3.6 percent for the period under the inflation targeting framework so far, RBI governor said Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India will remain vigilant and strive to revive growth in Asia’s third-largest economy, as well as pushing to maintain macroeconomic, financial and price stability, its governor said in a speech on Friday. But RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said the country’s real gross domestic product growth was expected to reach 7.2 percent in the fiscal year to March 2020, which he described as the strongest among the world’s large economies. “Inflation has remained below target, averaging 3.6 percent for the period under the inflation targeting framework so far,” Das said in the speech, uploaded on the RBI website early on Saturday. Emerging market economies also remain exposed to financial market volatility, Das said, and financial conditions could heighten existing stress on the balance sheets of lending institutions in some countries.