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Central Office is at Mumbai since inception.
Though originally privately owned, since nationalisation in 1949, RBI is fully owned by the Government of India.
The main functions of RBI include
- Monetary Authority:
- Formulates, implements and monitors the monetary policy.
- Objective: maintaining price stability and ensuring adequate flow of credit to productive sectors.
- Regulator and supervisor of the financial system:
- Prescribes broad parameters of banking operations within which the country's banking and financial system functions.
- Objective: maintain public confidence in the system, protect depositors' interest and provide cost-effective banking services to the public.
- Manager of Exchange Control:
- Manages the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999.
- Objective: to facilitate external trade and payment and promote orderly development and maintenance of foreign exchange market in India.
- Issuer of currency:
- Issues and exchanges or destroys currency and coins not fit for circulation.
- Objective: to give the public adequate quantity of supplies of currency notes and coins and in good quality.
- Developmental role
- Performs a wide range of promotional functions to support national objectives.
- Performs a wide range of promotional functions to support national objectives.
- Related Functions
- Banker to the Government: performs merchant banking function for the central and the state governments; also acts as their banker.
- Banker to banks: maintains banking accounts of all scheduled banks.
The current governor of RBI is Dr.Y.Venugopal Reddy (who succeeded Dr.Bimal Jalan on September 6, 2003)
RBI has 22 regional offices across India.