Good news! Loans get cheaper, and existing EMI gets extended moratorium.

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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das has announced a reduction in the repo rate to 4 percent and an extension of three months on loan moratorium. It is in the move to ease the financial stress on the nation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown.

Reducing the repo rate that results in reduction of the key interest rate at which RBI lends money to commercial banks. It will lessen their burden on the loan moratorium or delayed EMI payments. To balance the reverse repo rate has been pulled to 3.35 percent from the existing 3.75 percent.

According to the governor, the GDP growth is expected to remain in the negative territory for the current financial year. The headline inflation will only ease in the latter half of the year.

The central bank rolled out these measures and, in future more monetary, fiscal, and administrative measures to improve the functioning of markets. It will support exports and imports, to ease the financial stress on governments to give better access to working capital. The apex bank believes these measures will help in the gradual revival of the Indian economy.

The World Economic Forum after conducting a survey recently and said that the world would witness a prolonged global recession with bankruptcies, failure o industries, and a spike in unemployment. In India, the RBI governor shared, industrial production shrank by 17% in March, while exports were all-time low in the last 30 years.