All You Need To Know About MONETARY POLICY COMMITTEE

           MONETARY POLICY COMMITTEE

The Aim of the MPC is to decentralize the Powers of the Governor of the RBI. Earlier the Governor used to single-handedly take the MONETARY POLICY decision in order to contain the Inflation rate.

Governor alone was entrusted with the responsibility of deciding the Bank Rates , but now with the coming up of MPC the task of deciding the MONETARY POLICY rates will be done by a committee of 6 persons who will take the decision by consensus.

1. What is a monetary policy committee : The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is a committee of the central bank — Reserve Bank of India, headed by its Governor.

It was set up by amending the RBI Act after the government and RBI agreed to task RBI with the responsibility for price stability and inflation targeting.

The RBI and the government signed the Monetary Policy Framework Agreement on February 20, 2015.


2.How is this committee structured? According to the government, the MPC will have six(6) members. Three each will be nominated by the government and the RBI and each member will have one vote. While the majority voice of the committee will be final in deciding the interest rates and the RBI will have to accept the verdict, the governor gets a casting vote in case of a tie.


3. What is the committee’s mandate? The MPC is entrusted with the task of fixing the benchmark policy interest rate (repo rate) to contain inflation within the target level. The government may, if it considers necessary, convey its views, in writing, to the MPC from time to time. RBI is mandated to furnish necessary information to the MPC to facilitate their decision making.



4.How is it different from the current practice followed by the RBI? Currently, a technical advisory committee constituted by the RBI, which consists central bank’s top brass including the deputy governor and the governor and external advisors, give their opinion and suggestions on what the RBI should do. But the governor’s word is final on the rates and the advice of the technical advisory is not binding on the RBI.


5. What is the global experience in this regard? Most of these countries have implemented their monetary policy targets through MPCs after formally adopting inflation targeting as a monetary policy objective. Notable among countries which have adopted inflation targeting as a monetary policy objective is New Zealand, England, Canada, South Africa, Sweden, among others. Research has found that inflation, in general, had come down to a much acceptable level in many countries after adopting inflation targeting than before.


Related Topic :- INFLATION TARGETING :- Inflation Targeting means applying all possible Monetary Policy Measures in order to meet a preset Inflation value or Range, for example In India it's a range of 2 to 6% at the CPI (consumer Price Index).


Urjit Patel (who is presently the RBI Governor ) has recommended for
Inflation rate of 4+2% i.e from 2 to 6 % and that too for CPI
(earlier WPI was seen).

Thank You Friends !!

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News Credits :- Economic Times