Recently, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to extend liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) to Regional Rural Banks (RRB) to make liquidity management more efficient.
At present, RRBs are not permitted to access the liquidity windows of the RBI
The LAF was introduced in RBI in 1998 based on the recommendations of Narasimham Committee on Banking Sector Reforms.
It is a monetary policy tool that enables banks to resolve temporary cash shortages through repurchase agreements or repos.
RBI uses four tools to control the flow of liquidity in the country. They are
Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR),
Liquidity Adjustment Facilities (includes repo rate and reverse repo rate),
Statutory Liquidity Ratio and
Open Market Operations.
The two main components of the Liquidity Adjustment Facility are Repo rate and Reverse Repo Rate.