RBI to conduct Rs 75,000-crore 4-day variable rate repo auction today
Currently, liquidity in the banking system is estimated to be in deficit of around Rs 1.93 lakh crore.
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Currently, liquidity in the banking system is estimated to be in deficit of around Rs 1.93 lakh crore.
Usually, the central bank conducts variable rate repo auction to inject liquidity in the banking system when it turns into deficit mode or tight.
The six-member Monetary Policy Committee of the RBI meets from April 3 to 5 to decide on interest rates.
An interesting observation in this MPC meeting is that while 5 MPC members voted for staying the course, 1 MPC member, Professor Jayanth R. Varma, actually voted to reduce the policy repo rate by 25 bps.
The central bank on January 29 conducted a 2-day VRR auction, in which banks submitted bids worth Rs 73,290 crore and the RBI only accepted bids worth Rs 25,001 crore at a 6.74 percent cut-off rate.