The RBI said in order to address additional demand for liquidity and with a view to provide flexibility to the banking system in its liquidity management towards March-end, "It is prepared to inject adequate additional liquidity using a combination of appropriate instruments."
This will be in addition to normal Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) operations.
"After reviewing the current and evolving liquidity conditions in the banking system, it has been decided to conduct additional variable rate repo operations for longer tenors to provide additional liquidity support to the banks during March 2018," it said.
Commenting on the RBI's decision, Karthik Srinivasan of ICRA said the proposed injection of additional liquidity using longer term repo that extends beyond March 31, 2018 "should help cap the short-term rates and also aid in lowering the rate volatilities" for the rest of the month.
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