Denying level playing field

My View on  "‘RBI should be accountable to Parliament’ - Dr.K.C...": 

Preamble of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 had inter alia stated: “…but whereas it is expedient to make temporary provision on the basis of the existing monetary system, and to leave the question of the monetary standard best suited to India to be considered when the international monetary position has become sufficiently clear and stable to make it possible to frame permanent measures;

It is hereby enacted as follows:-“

The opportunity for the review envisaged actually came when GOI appointed the Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (FSLRC) which submitted its report sometime back. The plethora of issues considered by the FSLRC did not allow the Commission to focus on the kind of change envisaged in the preamble of the RBI Act. The ‘cut & paste’ FSLRC report which imported ideas not necessarily suitable in the Indian context, instead of trying to build on the strength of RBI attempted to re-invent a new institutional structure. It is not the lack of RBI’s allegiance to legislative supremacy that is at the root of the present friction between GOI and RBI. The assertion of ‘ownership rights’ by lower level functionaries of GOI over all public sector organisations including statutory bodies like RBI and their interference in the legitimate functioning of institutions even in HR issues deny the top managements of these institutions a level playing field with their counterparts elsewhere. 

- M.G.Warrier