RBI policy: What should determine interest rates

….So, they do not have to worry if, in following the RBI's 'diktat', they end up making losses. But as we have pointed out in the past, the repercussions of banks blindly following the RBI's diktat go well beyond the banking sector. The sharp increase in the bad loans of public sector banks and, hence, in taxpayerfunded capital infusions, for instance, is the direct consequence of PSBs lending aggressively at the RBI's behest during the downturn when commercial considerations called for a cutback in lending. It is unfortunate that instead of learning from past mistakes, we seem determined to repeat them.

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