Reforming financial reforms
Reforming financial reforms: SS Tarapore hits a raw nerve on the Big Bang changes in India’s finance sector
My VIEW:
My VIEW:
January
25, 2016
Decoding
UF Code
This refers to Aarati
Krishnan’s brilliant analysis “Reforming financial reforms” (The Hindu Business Line, Book Review,
January 25). For the discerning reader, the review brings in one place, the
background of Tarapore to say what he has been saying about the half-baked
report of the Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission’s(FSLRC) report,
the aggressive efforts single-handedly made by Justice Srikrishna, brushing
aside several dissents expressed by his own colleagues on FSLRC and the need
for treading cautiously while dismantling the institutional structure which is
presently handling the mandated responsibilities relating to regulation and
supervision of the financial sector fairly well.
Whether inside RBI,
handling sensitive work areas like monetary policy or management of forex
reserves or as a regular columnist covering mainly policy-related issues concerning
RBI, in The Hindu Business Line
(Maverick View), S S Tarapore drew hundred per cent of his resources which
comprised mainly knowledge derived from work experience and own research, to
guide policy makers, always keeping the Indian context in view. He never tried
to please the establishment. His suggestions and pleas were always
prescriptions for healing the wounds suffered by financial sector due to
diversions taken by authorities to make compromises with stakeholders.
Just think about the benefits
Indian economy would have derived, if RBI was able to move forward with the proposal
he made in early 1990’s to establish a Gold Bank. Now, GOI and RBI are trying
to learn ‘gold management’ from first principles.
M
G Warrier, Mumbai
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