Directives – regarding loan advances to crops & fixing lending rates. Fixation of margin requirements Credit rationing – to ensure overall development 5 Qualitative instruments or tools of RBI
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Repo rate is the rate at which the RBI lends to commercial banks by purchasing securities while bank rate is the lending rate at which commercial banks can borrow from the RBI without providing any security. Repo rate Vs. bank rate 10
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Current rates (as of July 202 3 ) of key RBI indicators: 12 To control inflation RBI will follow dear or contractionary monetary policy to reduce money supply in the economy. It will increase reserve ratios (CRR,SLR), sell government securities under OMOs or raise various rates such as REPO, MSF, Bank rates, etc.