Poonam Gupta: Deputy RBI governor's focus could be liquidity conundrum

Poonam Gupta, the new deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), is likely to get the all-important monetary policy department among others. She may have to find a way to improve monetary transmission at a time the central bank has started the interest rate cutting cycle. Her appointment comes less than a week before a meeting of the monetary policy committee (MPC).

 

Gupta is presently the director general of the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), the first woman to head the New Delhi think tank. She is also a member of the Economic Advisory Council to