Reserve Bank of India
Reserve Bank of India
Reserve Bank of India
SCIENCE
NAME-PRACHI DEEPAK PATIL
DIV-SY BMS(C)
ROLL NO-6162
RESERVE BANK OF INDIA
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is India's central bank, responsible for the issue and supply of the Indian rupee
and the regulation of the Indian banking system. It also manages the country's main payment systems and works
to promote its economic development.
• Until the Monetary Policy Committee was established in 2016,[6] it also had full control monetary policy in
India.[7] It commenced its operations on 1 April 1935 in accordance with the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934.[8]
The original share capital was divided into shares of 100 each fully paid.[9] Following India's independence on
15 August 1947, the RBI was nationalised on 1 January 1949.
• The overall direction of the RBI lies with the 21-member central board of directors, composed of: the governor;
four deputy governors; two finance ministry representatives (usually the Economic Affairs Secretary and the
Financial Services Secretary); ten government-nominated directors; and four directors who represent local boards
for Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, and Delhi. Each of these local boards consists of five members who represent
regional interests and the interests of co-operative and indigenous banks.
PREMABLE
• The preamble of the Reserve Bank of India describes the basic functions of the reserve bank
as:
• "to regulate the issue of Bank notes and keeping of reserves with a view to securing
monetary stability in India and generally to operate the currency and credit system of the
country to its advantage; to have a modern monetary policy framework to meet the challenge
of an increasingly complex economy, to maintain price stability while keeping in mind the
objective of growth.
STRUCTURE
• RBI Monetary Museum in Mumbai was established by the bank under its educational programme in 2004.
• The central board of directors is the main committee of the central bank. The Government of India appoints the
directors for a four-year term. The board consists of a governor, and not more than four deputy governors; four
directors to represent the regional boards;[two – usually the Economic Affairs Secretary and the Financial Services
Secretary – from the Ministry of Finance and ten other directors from various fields. The Reserve Bank – under
Raghuram Rajan's governorship – wanted to create a post of a chief operating officer (COO), in the rank of deputy
governor and wanted to re-allocate work between the five of them (four deputy governor and COO).
• The bank is headed by the governor, currently Shaktikanta Das. There are four deputy governors B. P. Kanungo,
Mahesh Kumar Jain, M. Rajeshwar Rao,and Michael Patra.
• Two of the four deputy governors are traditionally from RBI ranks and are selected from the bank's executive
directors. One is nominated from among the chairpersons of public sector banks and the other is an economist. An
Indian Administrative Service officer can also be appointed as deputy governor of RBI and later as the governor of
RBI as with the case of Y. Venugopal Reddy and Duvvuri Subbarao. Other persons forming part of the central
board of directors of the RBI are Dr. Nachiket Mor, Y. C. Deveshwar, Prof Damodar Acharya, Ajay Tyagi and
Anjuly Duggal.
Branches and support bodies
• The RBI has four regional representations: North in New Delhi, South in Chennai, East in Kolkata and
West in Mumbai. The representations are formed by five members, appointed for four years by the
central government and with the advice of the central board of directors serve as a forum for regional
banks and to deal with delegated tasks from the Central Board.[56]
• It has two training colleges for its officers, viz. Reserve Bank Staff College, Chennai and College of
Agricultural Banking, Pune. There are three autonomous institutions run by RBI namely National
Institute of Bank Management (NIBM), Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR),
Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT).[57] There are also four
zonal training centres at Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, and New Delhi.
FUNCTIONS
• The central bank of any country executes many functions such as overseeing monetary policy, issuing
currency, managing foreign exchange, working as a bank for government and as a banker of scheduled
commercial banks. It also works for overall economic growth of the country. The preamble of the
Reserve Bank of India describes its main functions as:
• ..to regulate the issue of Bank Notes and keeping of reserves with a view to securing monetary stability
in India and generally to operate the currency and credit system of the country to its advantage .
FINANCIAL SUPERVISION
• The primary objective of RBI is to undertake consolidated supervision of the financial sector comprising commercial banks,
financial institutions, and non-banking finance companies.
• The board is constituted by co-opting four directors from the Central Board as members for a term of two years and is
chaired by the governor. The deputy governors of the reserve bank are ex-officio members. One deputy governor, usually
the deputy governor in charge of banking regulation and supervision, is nominated as the vice-chairman of the board. The
board is required to meet normally once every month. It considers inspection reports and other supervisory issues placed
before it by the supervisory departments.
• BFS through the Audit Sub-Committee also aims at upgrading the quality of the statutory audit and internal audit functions
in banks and financial institutions.
ISSUE OF CURRENCY
• Other than the Government of India, the Reserve Bank of India is the sole body authorised to issue
banknotes in India.
The bank also destroys banknotes when they are not fit for circulation. All the money issued by the central
bank is its monetary liability, i.e., the central bank is obliged to back the currency with assets of equal
value, to enhance public confidence in paper currency. The objectives are to issue banknotes and give the
public adequate supply of the same, to maintain the currency and credit system of the country to utilise it
in its best advantage, and to maintain the reserves.
The RBI maintains the economic structure of the country so that it can achieve the objective of price
stability as well as economic development because both objectives are diverse in themselves.
ROLE OF RBI IN INDIAN BANKING SYSTEM
•:
•1.The Reserve Bank of India has the sole right to issue currency notes except one rupee
notes which are issued by the Ministry of Finance. Currency notes issued by the Reserve
Bank are declared unlimited legal tender throughout the country.
•2.Banker to Government:
•As banker to the government the Reserve Bank manages the banking needs of the
government. It has to-maintain and operate the government’s deposit accounts as well as
It collects receipts of funds and makes payments on behalf of the government.
• The Act contains the definition of the so-called scheduled banks, as they are
mentioned in the 2nd Schedule of the Act. These are banks which were to have
paid up capital and reserves above 5 lakh.
• There are various section in the RBI Act but the most controversial and
confusing section is Section 7. Although this section has been used only once
by the central govt, it puts a restriction on the autonomy of the RBI. Section 7
states that central government can legislate the functioning of the RBI through
the RBI board, and the RBI is not an autonomous body.
RESERVE BANK OF INDIA ACT
•Section 17 of the Act defines the manner in which the RBI(the central bank of India) can conduct business. The
RBI can accept deposits from the central and state governments without interest. It can purchase and discount bills
of exchange from commercial banks. It can purchase foreign exchange from banks and sell it to them. It can
provide loans to banks and state financial corporations. It can provide advances to the central government and state
governments. It can buy or sell government securities. It can deal in derivative, repo and reverse repo.
•Section 18 deals with emergency loans to banks. Section 21 states that the RBI must conduct banking affairs for the
central government and manage public debt. Section 22 states that only the RBI has the exclusive rights to issue
currency notes in India. Section 24 states that the maximum denomination a note can be is ₹10,000 (US$140).
•Section 26 of Act describes the legal tender character of Indian bank notes.
RESERVE BANK OF INDIA ACT,1934
•Section 28 allows the RBI to form rules regarding the exchange of damaged and imperfect notes.
•Section 31 states that in India, only the RBI or the central government can issue and accept
promissory notes that are payable on demand. However, cheques, that are payable on demand, can
be issued by anyone.
•Section 42(1) says that every scheduled bank must have an average daily balance with the RBI. The
amount of the deposit shall be more that a certain percentage of its net time and demand liabilities in
India.[2]
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