TNPSC Thervupettagam

Operation Twist

April 30 , 2020 1544 days 998 0
  • The Reserve bank of India has decided to bring back its bond swapping programme. 
  • It is billed as India’s Operation Twist with an aim to help monetary transmission.
  • The RBI said that it will conduct purchase and sale of government securities under open market operations (OMO) for Rs10,000 crore.
  • ‘Operation Twist’ is RBI’s simultaneous selling of short-term securities and buying of long term securities through open market operations (OMO). 
  • Under this mechanism, the short-term securities are transitioned into long-term securities.
  • The RBI manages and controls the liquidity, rupee strength and monetary management through purchase and sale of government securities (G-Secs) in a monetary tool called Open market Operations.

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