RBI MPC Meeting 2025 Live Updates: After the RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra announced the status quo on the repo rate, which was on expected lines, the markets were trading in the positive territory.

SENSEX is up 188 points to 80,455, while NIFTY climbed 0.19% to 24,658.20.

RBI MPC Meeting 2025 Live Updates: To reduce cost of financing to infrastructure sector by non-banking financial companies, the Reserve Bank has decided to reduce risk weights, Governor Sanjay Malhotra said.

RBI MPC Meeting 2025 Live Updates: The Monetary Policy Committee led by RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra has raised the FY26 GDP growth forecast to 6.8% from 6.5% earlier.

• Q2 FY26: 7%
• Q3 FY26: 6.4%
• Q4 FY26: 6.2%
• Q1 FY27: 6.4%

RBI MPC Meeting 2025 Live Updates: The Reserve Bank of India has projected inflation at 2.6% for the financial year 2025-26, which is lower than the earlier estimate of 3.1%.

RBI MPC Meeting 2025 Live Updates: The Reserve Bank Governor said that the tariff-related development is likely to decelerate growth in second half of this fiscal year.

"GST and other reforms to offset impact of external factors on economic growth to some extent," he added.

RBI MPC Meeting 2025 Live Updates: "Economic growth outlook remains resilient helped by favourable monsoon, lower inflation and monetary easing," RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra said, adding, "Domestic economic activities continue to sustain momentum in second quarter of this fiscal."

RBI MPC Meeting 2025 Live Updates: The monetary policy committee has decided to keep the monetary policy stance unchanged at 'neutral', Governor Sanjay Malhotra said.

"We also decided to continue with the neutral stance. The MPC observed that the overall inflation outlook has turned even more benign in the last few months due to a sharp decline in food prices and the rationalisation of GST rates," he said.

RBI MPC Meeting 2025 Live Updates: Addressing from the RBI headquarters, Governor Sanjay Malhotra said, "Rationalisation of GST to have sobering impact on inflation, while stimulating consumption and growth."

RBI MPC Meeting 2025 Live Updates: RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra said that the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has decided to keep the repo rate unchanged at 5.5%.

RBI MPC Meeting 2025 Live Updates: RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra addresses the media from the Reserve Bank of India Headquarters on decisions taken during the three-day Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting.

RBI MPC Meeting 2025 Live Updates: Dharmakirti Joshi, Chief Economist, Crisil Limited, said, "We expect that a repo rate cut could come as soon as October due to lower-than-expected inflation. Core inflation, which indicates excess demand pressure, remains low by historical standards despite the significant impact of rising gold prices."

RBI MPC Meeting 2025 Live Updates: Aditi Nayar, Chief Economist, ICRA, said, "GST rationalisation is unambiguously set to moderate inflation. However, this is the outcome of a policy change and will likely be accompanied by stronger demand. This suggests a status quo for the repo rate in the October 2025 policy review, in what appears to be a close call."

RBI MPC Meeting 2025 Live Updates: On expectations from the MPC, Madan Sabnavis, Chief Economist at Bank of Baroda said: "While we do believe that there is limited scope for any change in the repo rate in this policy, there is a market view that given the current environment, a rate cut would be warranted."

RBI MPC Meeting 2025 Live Updates: Sanjay Malhotra, Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI), will declare the monetary policy statement on Wednesday, October 1, at 10 am.

RBI MPC Meeting 2025 Live Updates: Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, will announce the bi-monthly monetary policy amid expectations of a 25-basis-point (bps) rate cut.