RBI keeps key policy rates unchanged; GDP growth for 2018-19 projected at 7.4 per cent

RBI has kept all key policy rates unchanged in its fourth bi-monthly monetary policy review announced yesterday. A six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), headed by Governor Urjit Patel, decided to keep the repo rate unchanged at 6.5 percent and the reverse repo rate at 6.25 percent. Repo rate is the rate at which RBI lends to banks, while the reverse repo is the rate at which RBI borrows money from banks.Marginal standing facility rate and the Bank Rate too were kept at 6.75 percent. On the...