The RBI today said it will auction 35-days and 49-days Cash Management Bills worth Rs 1,00,000 crore on January 13 to mop up extra liquidity from the system post demonetisation.
The central bank will also conduct an auction of 35 days Cash Management Bills under the MSS for Rs 60,000 crore tomorrow.
The measures taken by the government to save the rupee is likely to throw its fiscal out of whack. North Block sources say this may impact the fiscal deficit by over Rs 18,000 crore. CNBC-TV18‘s
RBI will auction Rs 22000 crore of government cash management bills every week. The first sale - a tranche of Rs 11000 crore - takes place later in the day, with another Rs 11000 crore scheduled for Tuesday.
Commercial paper and the certificates of deposit market pricing, which were earlier in the range of 8-9 percent, would certainly move beyond the cut-off in the RBI auction of short-term paper
As expected the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) further curbed the availibility of funds (liquidity) in the markets to stem the rupee's free fall against the US dollar. The central bank will now auction the government of India cash management bills (CMBs) to raise Rs 22,000 crore on every Monday.