What is DICGC? Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the RBI, created by an act of parliament in 1961. The idea behind the DICGC is to boost the faith of the public in …
About Liberalized Remittance Scheme The liberalized remittance scheme allows Indian residents to remit funds abroad for various specified purposes without any restrictions or prior approval from the RBI. It has several advantages but is subject to certain eligibility criteria. The …
About RRBs The Narasimham committee on rural credit recommended the establishment of Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) on the ground that they would be much better suited than the commercial banks or co-operative banks in meeting the needs of rural areas. …
About MPC The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is a committee of the RBI which is entrusted with the task of fixing the benchmark policy interest rate (repo rate) to contain inflation within the specified target level. Under the flexible inflation …
About SDB In 2022, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) introduced the Standing Deposit Facility (SDF), allowing banks to park their excess funds at a higher rate but without taking any collateral from the central bank. Currently, the SDF rate …
About WMA The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) gives temporary loans to the centre and state governments as a banker to the government. This facility is called Ways and Means Advances (WMA). This facility was introduced in 1997. Thus, WMA …
About RuPay RuPay is the first-of-its-kind global Card payment network of India, with wide acceptance at ATMs, POS devices and e-commerce websites across India. RuPay fulfils RBI’s vision of initiating a ‘less cash’ economy. RuPay is a product of the …
What is the digital rupee? The digital rupee, or the e-rupee, is a central bank digital currency (CBDC) issued by the RBI. It is similar to the physical cash that you hold in your wallet except that the e-rupee is …
What is it? Foreign Exchange Reserve indicates the reserves held by RBI in the form foreign currency assets, gold, SDR and reserve tranche. Components of foreign exchange reserve: Foreign Currency Assets: Currencies of foreign countries are held in foreign exchange …
Definition: Dependency syndrome refers to a situation where local self-governing(LSG) bodies, like Panchayati Raj institutions, rely heavily on external sources of funding, particularly grants from central and state governments, rather than generating their own revenue through local taxation and other …