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Consistent fall in both headline and core inflation gives room for some measured policy easing sometime during FY25, if not immediately.

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Jayanth R Varma asserts that the current policy rate of 6.5% establishes a real rate of 2%, which he views as too high to drive projected inflation down to the 4% target.

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Varma, one of the three external members on the RBIs Monetary Policy Committee, also said that real rates have to stay elevated until inflation is in the vicinity of 4 percent.

Goyal, one of the three external members of the RBIs Monetary Policy Committee, also said that oil marketing companies should start cutting fuel prices now that they have made up for their previous losses.

Bhide, one of the three external members on the Monetary Policy Committee, also said the RBIs inflation forecast of 5.2 percent for January-March 2024 appeared likely, for now.

Indias inflation is likely to come in below 5 percent in April. While this may allow the Reserve Bank of India to leave the repo rate unchanged again in June, falling inflation will lead to higher real interest rates. But which is the real real rate?

In March, last year, CBT trimmed the EPF interest rate to its lowest level in 40 years to 8.1% for fiscal 2021-22. The last time, the EPF rate was lowest was in 1977-78 at 8%.