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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | India's forex reserves are falling $2 billion per week as RBI fights to save sliding rupee -Mahua Venkatesh

India's forex reserves are falling $2 billion per week as RBI fights to save sliding rupee -Mahua Venkatesh

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published Published on Jul 3, 2018   modified Modified on Jul 3, 2018
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The dip in forex reserves has been due to the intervention of the central bank to arrest the slide in the rupee.

New Delhi:
India’s foreign exchange reserves have fallen by about $2 billion per week for seven weeks now but top government officials said they were monitoring the trend and there is no cause for alarm.

Economic affairs secretary Subhash Chandra Garg said funds would be raised through foreign currency non-repatriable (FCNR) deposits or even sovereign bonds, if the need arose.

In September 2013, then RBI governor Raghuram Rajan had raised funds through FCNR bonds and the scheme fetched $30 billion.

India’s forex reserves crossed the $400 billion mark for the first time last September but have remained volatile since. They declined to $407.81 billion on 22 June from a record high of $426 billion in April, largely on the back of a weakening rupee.

Insiders said that the dip in forex reserves has been due to the intervention of the central bank to arrest the slide in the rupee.

“We are monitoring (the situation) but there is no need to take any action now,” said an RBI official.

“Our forex reserves are adequate and this dip does not call for any policy action at this point. This is due to global developments. There is no need for any knee jerk reaction,” said another finance ministry official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“This is a natural phenomenon and this is most likely happening due to RBI’s stepping in by selling dollars to support the rupee. No amount of reserves is ever adequate,” said Soumya Kanti Ghosh, chief economic adviser, State Bank of India group. The reserves, he added, had crossed $400 billion only last year.

China’s foreign exchange reserves in May stood at $3,111 billion. However, its reserves in April was at $3,125 billion.

High foreign exchange reserves not only help in international payments but also provide a cushion against exchange rate risks and boost sentiments.

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ThePrint.in, 2 July, 2018, https://theprint.in/economy/indias-forex-reserves-are-falling-2-billion-per-week-as-rbi-fights-to-save-sliding-rupee/77898/


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