Government meddling putting RBI credibility at risk

India’s Finance Ministry is treading on dangerous ground with calls for monetary easing and other moves that could put the central bank’s independence at risk. Any loss of credibility for the RBI could jeopardise its efforts to lower inflation, one of the few big policy successes in India over the past couple of years. 

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