Relevance: Prelims: Economy
ROLE DESCRIPTION
Monetary Authority
- Formulates, implements and monitors the monetary policy.
- Objective: maintaining price stability while keeping in mind the objective of growth.
Regulator and supervisor of the financial system
- Prescribes broad parameters of banking operations within which the country’s banking and financial system functions.
- Objective: Maintain public confidence in the system, protect depositors’ interest and provide costeffective
banking services to the public.
Manager of Foreign Exchange
- Manages the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999.
- Objective: to facilitate external trade and payment and promote orderly development and maintenance of foreign exchange market in India.
Issuer of currency
- Issues and exchanges or destroys currency and coins not fit for circulation.
- Objective: to give the public adequate quantity of supplies of currency notes and coins and in
good quality.
Developmental role Performs a wide range of promotional functions to support national objectives.
Other functions
- Banker to the Government: performs merchant banking function for the central and the state governments; also acts as their banker.
- Banker to banks: maintains banking accounts of all scheduled banks.
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