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The Preconditions To Rupee Float

  • Gross fiscal deficit has to reduce to 3.5 per cent of GDP by 1999-2000.
  • A consolidated sinking fund to be set up to meet government's debt repayment needs
  • Parliament has to give RBI a mandate to keep inflation between 3 and 5 per cent
  • RBI has to withdraw from primary government borrowing programmes; government has to set up its own public debt office
  • Interest rates have to be fully deregulated
  • Growth of weak banks to be curbed
  • Bad debts of banks have to be brought down from 14 per cent now to 5 per cent
  • Debt service ratio has to be brought down from 25 to 20 per cent of GDP
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