The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reduced its key repo rate on Friday for the first time since May 2020, aiming to provide stimulus to the sluggish economy, which is projected to grow at its slowest pace in four years during the current fiscal year.

Today’s monetary policy reflects a steady state of thinking at RBI. Today’s rate cut continued the MPC pivot to the “neutral” stance in October and the CRR cut in December.

On Friday, the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) reduced the repo rate, the rate at which the RBI lends to commercial banks by 25 basis points, bringing it down to 6.