The distance between North Block and Mint Road has been growing for quite some time. The latest evidence of tension is the finance ministry’s decision to introduce a clause in the Banking Amendment Bill allowing banks to trade in commodity futures, despite the central bank’s reservations on the issue. The ministry has argued that this will enable banks to hedge exposure to agricultural lending arising out of price fluctuations. While it is the ministry’s prerogative to submit to Parliament the laws under which regulators like the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will have to work, it is possible that it has not listened closely enough to the regulator’s arguments, as a major stakeholder.........
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