RBI Surplus Transfer to Government

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to transfer Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the Central government from its own reserves. RBI Reserves The following three funds of RBI constitute the Reserves. They are: Currency and Gold Revaluation Account (CGRA), ..

Bimal Jalan Committee Report on Economic Capital Framework

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had constituted an Expert Committee to Review the Extant Economic Capital Framework of the Reserve Bank of India. The committee was chaired by Dr Bimal Jalan. The committee has submitted its report. Recommendations of ..

EPFO payroll data for June 2019

The Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) has released the payroll enrollment data for the month of June 2019. The data has shown a net payroll addition of 43% for this month. What does the data say? As per the released ..

Housing Finance Companies to be treated as NBFCs

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued a notification stating that housing finance companies (HFCs) will be treated as one of the categories of Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) for regulatory purposes and it will come under its direct oversight. ..

Partial Guarantee Scheme for NBFCs

In order to address the liquidity issues haunting the NBFC’s, the government has announced Rs 1-lakh crore Partial Guarantee Scheme for NBFCs and HFCs (non-banking and housing finance companies). Partial Guarantee Scheme Under the Scheme, public-sector banks will purchase high-rated ..

Proposed steps by NITI Ayog to slow economic decline in India

The Indian think-tank, the NITI Ayog has declared that the current economic situation in India is unprecedented and nobody had faced this type of a situation in the past 70 years. The NITI Ayog has also proposed several solutions to ..