“According to a notification issued by the Government of India dated February 25, Sinha will continue as the deputy governor, RBI, until January 18, 2014, when he completes the tenure of three years from the date on which he assumed office, that is, January 19, 2011,” RBI said in a press release on Tuesday. Sinha, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, has served the central bank for four decades.
The move comes after RBI Governor D Subbarao requested the finance ministry to extend Sinha’s tenure by a year. Sinha, architect of the recently-released bank licence norms, will help vet the application of bank aspirants and granting of licences. Last week, RBI had said though an external committee would be appointed to vet the applications and advise RBI, the central bank would take a final call on whom to issue the licence.
He will continue to look after the department of banking operations and development, department of non-banking supervision, urban banks department and the departments of risk monitoring, information technology, expenditure and budgetary control, legal and premises.