Speeches & Media Interactions

October 4, 2019 Participants from RBI: Shri Shaktikanta Das – Governor, Reserve Bank of India Shri N.S. Vishwanathan – Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Shri B. P. Kanungo – Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Shri M.K. Jain – Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Dr. Michael D. Patra – Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India Shri M. Rajeshwar Rao – Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India Shri Yogesh Dayal – Chief General Manager, Reserve Bank of India Mo

October 4, 2019 Participants from RBI: Mr. Shaktikanta Das – Governor, Reserve Bank of India Mr. N. S. Vishwanathan – Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Mr. B.P. Kanungo – Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Mr. M. K. Jain – Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Dr. Michael D. Patra – Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India Shaktikanta Das: Good Morning. I will make the usual customary statement in the beginning following which we will have questions and ans

Interviewer: Mythili Bhusnurmath In the last monetary policy review, the MPC and the RBI reduced the GDP estimate marginally to 6.9%. Since then, we have seen that the numbers for the last quarter came in much lower. In hindsight, how would you look at GDP now? The first quarter number came as a surprise. In fact, almost everybody had projected more than that. We had projected 5.8% for Q1 and all others had projected around 5.5%. So, the Q1 GDP number came as a big su

Edited excerpts from the interview. We are meeting at a time when suddenly the global environment is charged up with the explosion at the Aramco oil refinery. Does this disturb your view of the space that monetary policy has? Before commenting specifically on monetary policy, I would like to take a little longer to analyze various consequences and how the situation is playing out in the next few days because this incident happened just a day or two ago. So we should a

August 07, 2019 Participants from RBI: Mr. Shaktikanta Das – Governor, Reserve Bank of India Mr. N. S. Vishwanathan – Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Mr. B.P. Kanungo – Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Mr. Mahesh Kumar Jain – Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Dr. Michael D. Patra – Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India Mr. Yogesh Dayal – Chief General Manager, Reserve Bank of India Moderator: Good day, ladies and gentlemen. And welcome to the Thi

August 07, 2019 Participants from RBI: Mr. Shaktikanta Das – Governor, Reserve Bank of India Mr. N. S. Vishwanathan – Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Mr. B.P. Kanungo – Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Mr. Mahesh Kumar Jain – Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Dr. Michael D. Patra- Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India Shaktikanta Das: Good afternoon! I will first make the statement on Part A, that is, the matter covering the resolution of the MPC

June 06, 2019 Participants from RBI: Mr. Shaktikanta Das – Governor, Reserve Bank of India Mr. N. S. Vishwanathan – Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Dr. Viral V. Acharya – Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Mr. B. P. Kanungo – Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Mr. Mahesh Kumar Jain – Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Dr. Michael D. Patra – Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India Shri Yogesh Dayal – Chief General Manager, Reserve Bank of India Mod

June 06, 2019 Participants from RBI: Mr. Shaktikanta Das – Governor, Reserve Bank of India Mr. N. S. Vishwanathan – Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Dr Viral V. Acharya – Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Mr. B.P. Kanungo – Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Mr. Mahesh Kumar Jain – Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Shaktikanta Das: Good afternoon, everyone. I will make my statement. We have already shared the MPC resolution with all of you. I will

April 04, 2019 Participants from RBI: Shri Shaktikanta Das – Governor Shri N. S. Vishwanathan – Deputy Governor Dr. Viral Acharya – Deputy Governor Shri B. P. Kanungo – Deputy Governor Shri M. K. Jain – Deputy Governor Dr. Michael D. Patra – Executive Director Mr. Rajeshwar Rao – Executive Director Mr. Jose Kattoor – Chief General Manager Moderator: Good day, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the First Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Conference with Researchers and Analysts

April 04, 2019 Participants from RBI: Shri Shaktikanta Das – Governor Shri N. S. Vishwanathan – Deputy Governor Dr. Viral V. Acharya – Deputy Governor Shri B. P. Kanungo – Deputy Governor Shri M. K. Jain – Deputy Governor Shaktikanta Das: Good morning. At the outset, I will make the usual statement which I have. Thereafter we will take any questions or observations and will try and accommodate as many questions and observations as possible, so will proceed accordingly