urjit patel

Urjit Patel: ‘Tariff impacting 55% Indian exports to US, need to mitigate pain’

September 04, 2025 7:04 am

While much of the global trade remains stable, he said the tariffs have become a major source of investment uncertainty in the country.

PM Modi compared Urjit Patel to ‘snake who sits on hoard of money’: Ex-Finance Secy

September 25, 2023 10:09 pm

One of the contentious issues between the RBI and the government was the surplus transfer of the RBI.

Urjit Patel appointed as vice president of AIIB; replaces ex-bureaucrat from Gujarat

January 11, 2022 10:26 pm

The appointment of Patel will be effective from February 1, AIIB said in a statement.

Urjit Patel in search panel for MPC members

August 15, 2020 12:47 am

The panel, headed by Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, also includes RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das or a deputy governor representing him, Niti Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar and Economic Affairs Secretary Tarun Bajaj.

Efforts to clean banking system cost Urjit Patel his job: Rahul Gandhi

July 28, 2020 8:49 pm

Gandhi used a news report that quoted Patel saying that the insolvency law caused a rift with the government to buttress his claim.

ExplainSpeaking - Economy: Why everyone expects NPAs to rise in India

July 27, 2020 4:40 pm

Explaining what to expect next week, every Sunday morning: Not a single respondent in RBI latest systemic risk survey expected a V-shaped economic recovery

Govt diluted IBC, its steps hurt RBI’s move on bad loans: Urjit Patel

July 25, 2020 7:03 am

In his new book Overdraft: Saving the Indian Saver, Patel has said that the Supreme Court's April 2019 verdict had not found the RBI’s February 2018 one-day default regulation on the insolvency process “problematic”

Former RBI Guv Urjit Patel says insolvency law caused rift with central government

July 24, 2020 3:54 pm

In a book released Friday, Patel -- who headed the RBI between September 2016 and his unexpected resignation in December 2018 -- said the government seemed to lose enthusiasm for the legislation in the middle of the year he left the central bank.

In Urjit Patel’s book: ‘Chekhov’s gun’ & preordained vanishing act

July 08, 2020 4:55 am

According to Patel, in playwriting there is a concept known as ‘Chekhov’s gun’: if there is a rifle hanging above the mantelpiece in Act One, it is going to be fired at someone by the end of Act Five.

Urjit Patel is back — as chief of key economic think tank

June 20, 2020 7:09 am

Patel replaces former bureaucrat Vijay Kelkar, who chaired NIPFP for almost six years. He is scheduled to join June 22 and will have a four-year tenure, NIPFP said in a statement.

Reserve Bank Of India Keeps Repo Rate Unchanged Post Demonetisation

June 22, 2020 7:18 pm