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RECOMMEDATIONS OF TARAPORE COMMITTE ON CAPITAL ACCOUNT CONVERTIBILITY
A committee on capital account convertibility was setup by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) under the chairmanship of former RBI deputy governor S.S. Tarapore to "lay the road map" to capital account convertibility. In 1997, the Tarapore Committee had indicated the preconditions for Capital AccountConvertibility. The three crucial preconditions were fiscal consolidation a mandated inflation target and strengthening of the financial system.
The five-member committee has recommended a three-year time frame for complete convertibility by 1999-2000. The highlights of the report including the preconditions to be achieved for the full float of money are as follows:-
Pre-Conditions
Gross fiscal deficit to GDP ratio has to come down from a budgeted 4.5 per cent in 1997-98 to 3.5% in 1999-2000.
A consolidated sinking fund has to be set up to meet government's debt repayment needs; to be financed by increased in RBI's profit transfer to the govt. and disinvestment proceeds.
Inflation rate should remain between an average 3-5 per cent for the 3-year period 1997-2000
Gross NPAs of the public sector banking system needs to be brought down from the present 13.7% to 5% by 2000. At the same time, average effective CRR needs to be brought down from the current 9.3% to 3%
RBI should have a Monitoring Exchange Rate Band of plus minus 5% around a neutral Real Effective Exchange Rate RBI should be transparent about the changes in REER
External sector policies should be designed to increase current receipts to GDP ratio and bring down the debt servicing ratio from 25% to 20%
Four indicators should be used for evaluating adequacy of foreign exchange reserves to safeguard against any contingency. Plus, a minimum net foreign asset to currency ratio of 40 per cent should be prescribed by law in the RBI Act.
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