The post carries the pay scale of Rs 2,25,000, release said.
Janakiraman will succeed MK Jain, who retires on June 21, as one of the four deputy governors of the Indian central bank.
The tenure of the job is for three years and the post carries the pay scale of Rs 2.25 lakh (level 17)
Technology is revolutionising the financial services industry, and driving a paradigm shift in the delivery of banking services, said Jain
Economic growth is unambiguously impaired when inflation stays above 6 percent, the Deputy Governor said. He added that the central bank hopes to rein in inflation within two years.
The RBI's rate-setting panel has since early May raised the policy repo rate by 90 basis points to 4.90 percent as it seeks to curb elevated inflation which could threaten economic recovery.
The gross non-performing assets (GNPAs) and net NPAs of banks improved to 5.97 per cent and 1.7 per cent as of March 31, 2022, from 9.23 per cent and 3.66 per cent as of September 2019, respectively, he said.
Mahesh Kumar Jain's new two-year term as RBI Deputy Governor will begin on June 22. He has over 30 years of banking experience, was the MD of IDBI Bank in 2017 and Chennai-based Indian Bank in 2015.
The Monetary Policy Department will now be under BP Kanungo, while Financial Stability Unit has been given to MKJain. NS Vishwanathan will oversee the Financial Markets Operations and Financial Markets Regulation departments.
His first term ends on July 03
Jain has an experience of over 30 years in the banking sector
Out of about 40 applications received, the Financial Sector Regulatory Appointment Search Committee (FSRASC) has shortlisted nine names who will appear for interview scheduled tomorrow, sources said.
Currently, the RBI has four Deputy Governors, two of them are internal appointees. The third DG is typically a career public sector banker while the fourth is an economist who will handle the monetary policy.
B.P. Kanungo, a long-serving official with India's central bank, took over as a deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India on Monday for a three-year term, overseeing a portfolio including currency management, debt management, and payment and settlements.
This is in line with the government’s plan to quickly charter out a resolution mechanism to resolve and recover the mounting bad loans in the banking sector, especially public sector banks.
BP Kanungo was on Friday appointed Deputy Governor in Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for three years.
SBI already has a Rs 200-crore fund to empower startups in this space. Last year, the public sector bank had also opened a startup branch, InCube, in Bengaluru.
The Reserve Bank of India is unsure of a bad bank success to resolve bad loans but is open to setting it up to experiment all solutions.
RBI today informed a parliamentary panel that it is working on a mechanism to bring down transaction cost on online payments post demonetisation even as cash flow position in urban as well as rural areas have improved significantly.
RBI's newly appointed Deputy Governor Viral Acharya, a noted economist, today said he will give his best in the new role.
Viral V Acharya will assume charge as Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India on January 20, 2017.
Vishwanathan, talking to reporters on the sidelines of a banking event, also said the incremental addition of stressed assets in banks was coming down.
Consultancy firm KPMG today appointed former Reserve Bank deputy governor H R Khan as its senior adviser in the country.
The Reserve Bank has currently three Deputy Governors as against the requirement of four.
The total credit dispensed by the non-bank entities has increased to 37.40 percent in these two years, which is twice the pace of the 19.22 percent growth reported by banks, he said.