A 50 bp hike, addition of a MSF rate 100 points above the repo rate and the removal of the reverse repo rate as a floater. It would be npow in a fixed channel denoting the lower end of the channel at 100 bp below the repo rate. The market should really welcome this policy as allt he planned reforms from the liquidity panel have been added as a bonus while the market was well set for  a 50 bp kicker. The advantage of being part of a thinking growing economy is that it becomes easier for you to be at the top and mauntain thought leadership. Move over the oughts, we are finally in a new decade.

The central bank has also nmixed liberal norms with simpler policy conditions which might cause a few hiccups with the old guard esp those from MNC banks as 25% of all new branches have been requested in Tier 5 and Tier 6 locations taking care of the unbanked at least academically. As policy goes of course this is much nearer to implementation also unlike the deliverance from the beauty and the beast year on year without a set course showing which has been turned on its head since 2007-08 with Duvvoori Rao firmly int he saddle taking a distinct direction and moving fast on the same. The contingent facility and the availability of 1% of CRR+SLR to the banks in overnight should be a brilliant move to keep yields in check as banks could have ended up the bvillain in pushing up inflation ain the conming higher inflation lower growth era for the economy. Also ahead of deregulation, savings rate has been kicked up to 4%  

As predicted  a lot of noise about inflation too..as the mogul is still speaking, we shall wait for others reactions too

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