To maintain resilience, the committee suggested a relatively smaller transfer than what was anticipated.
The surplus transfer, commonly called as "dividend" to the government, is almost double of the previous record of Rs 65,896 crore
Subhash Chandra Garg was expecting around Rs 1.5 trillion from the RBI
This follows the RBI board accepting the recommendation of a high-level panel headed by its former Governor Bimal Jalan on transfer of excess reserves to the government.
Jalan committee has recommended transferring the RBI's surplus reserves to the government in a staggered manner over three-five years.
The Jalan committee report will not have the views of former finance and economic affairs secretary Subhash Chandra Garg
According to various estimates, the RBI has over Rs 9 trillion of surplus capital with it
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This will be the first meeting of the six-member expert committee since Subhash Chandra Garg was abruptly shifted from finance to power ministry last month
The former RBI governor shares his views on the slowdown.
Jalan further said the government has already announced many reforms, and it is now a question of implementation, particularly in terms of investment
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her budget this month, raised taxes on people earning more than Rs 1 crore a year to at least 42.7%.
He says no one in govt had opposed sovereign bonds
Former Reserve Bank of India Governor Bimal Jalan joined the debate on whether or not the nation should go for an offshore bond sale
According to reports, Finance Secretary will be putting up a dissent note in Jalan committee report and he is not going to be the first one to put in a dissent note in a financial sector report
Transfers from RBI are unlikely to change fiscal reality
The committee has recommended a periodic review of the RBI's economic capital framework, according to a source
The surplus capital transfer would help the government meet its fiscal deficit target as it will come as a windfall to the exchequer
Interference by finance ministry in the working of Reserve Bank of India is glaring
Garg wants the panel to recommend tapping the 'unrealised gains' in the revaluation accounts of the central bank, while Jalan is not in favour of it