Govt wants RBI rate cut before March: Finance Ministry sources

We expect the RBI to cut policy rates, if not in December then in its next policy review: Finance Ministry

Impatient for faster economic growth, India's government is lobbying for a reduction in official interest rates in coming months as it expects inflation to stay close to a 4 percent target, finance ministry officials said.

At its last meeting in October, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) left the repo rate at 6.0 percent, near a seven-year low, and a Reuters poll found that economists expected the rate to stay there through to the second quarter of next year.

The finance ministry, according to officials, wants a rate cut sooner than that, putting a focus on the MPC meeting on Dec