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The Reserve Bank of India has no plans to intervene to prevent the movement of the rupee at the moment.
“The rupee is essentially a market determined currency. So there is no policy position in terms of intervening to prevent the movement of the rupee,” the RBI Deputy Governor, Dr Subir Gokarn, told media persons on the sidelines of a lecture here on Friday.
His comment assumes significance against the backdrop of the weakening of the Indian rupee today following global fears of another recession. Intervention by the central bank could raise concerns over liquidity as the bank’s dollar purchases could suck out rupee liquidity.
Dr Gokarn said the immediate concern was one of liquidity. “We do not want the market to be disrupted by constraints of liquidity. We are watching the (liquidity) situation,” he said.
He said the two factors that would “shape our stance” in the months ahead are domestic demand pressure and commodity prices. “We saw commodity prices soften a bit in May-June. But the trend did not persist and by the time we started out July process, they had stabilised. Now if this is the beginning of a softening trend, it clearly will have some impact on our thinking in terms of our stance,” he said.
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