Government needs to be on toes to meet challenges: Arun Jaitley

Asserting the importance of banking as Indian economy gets more formalised, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said the regulator and the government need to be on their toes for quick action without exaggerating the emerging challenges.

Government needs to be on toes to meet challenges: Arun Jaitley
Arun Jaitley said a changing economy needs a dynamic regulation that can be altered as per the scenario. Image source: PTI
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Updated: Sat, Oct 27, 2018
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Asserting the importance of banking as Indian economy gets more formalised, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said the regulator and the government need to be on their toes for quick action without exaggerating the emerging challenges. "When challenges come, we have a tendency to exaggerate them at times but then the banks, the regulator, the governments have to be on their feet all the time to make sure that what is avoidable in the process can certainly be done," he said at an IDFC event here.

Jaitley said a changing economy needs a dynamic regulation that can be altered as per the scenario. For this, he said quality of consultation with stakeholders should be high. Regulators have been coming out with research papers on emerging issues, he said.

His observation comes a day after Reserve Bank Deputy Governor Viral Acharya emphasised the importance of central bank`s independence. Acharya on Friday warned that the market can make the government pay for eroding the bank`s independence.

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Acharya said markets keenly watch the government`s activities which exert pressure on the central bank`s independent functioning. Their have been instances in the past few years when the government has reportedly tried to undermine RBI`s autonomy.

Speaking at the IDFC Bank`s third anniversary, Jaitley said though the nature of banking has been changing, villages still aspire to have a brick-and-mortar bank branch within their vicinity.

The Department of Financial Services is working with both public and private banks to ensure that most people have a banking point available, not necessarily a brick-and-mortar branch, within about 5km as part of the financial inclusion objective, he said.

"As the economy gets formalised, we will probably have a situation where access to banking itself will be useful and extremely important," he said.

 

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