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Below are Views On Monetary Policy by Ms. Rajani Sinha, Chief Economist & National Director – Research, Knight Frank India

 “The RBI has taken reassuring steps to infuse additional liquidity into the housing sector through the interventions of increased financing to National Housing Bank and extension of priority sector tag for bank funding to NBFCs for housing loans.

However, given the inflationary concerns in recent months, RBI has maintained the status quo on key policy rates. At a time when rising second wave of COVID infections and subsequent lockdowns are derailing economic momentum, RBI interventions will help maintain adequate liquidity as well as prevent hardening of yields in bond market. These measures will ensure economic stability as well as keep real estate sector stay afloat during such precarious times. Hopefully, benign retail inflation on account of better monsoon and easing of crude oil prices, coupled with accommodative stance would translate into lowering of policy rate in near future.”

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