Friday, November 30, 2012

A flawed Approach - S.S.Tarapore

......The leitmotif of the Approach Paper is that all that needs to be done is to dismember the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), create a unified financial regulatory agency and concentrate even greater powers in an already all-powerful Ministry of Finance. While doing so, the Commission appears to be oblivious of the fact that the macroeconomic management would be greatly attenuated by its passion to hive off activity from the RBI. The endeavour should be to see how the present financial legislation should be strengthened to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of policies and to be able to enforce the regulations in a more purposeful manner. In yielding to its great passion to overhaul the system, the Commission has deviated from its central objective.......

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