BANKING AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -After the partition of India, the Reserve Bank served as the central bank of Pakistan upto June 1948 when the State Bank of Pakistan commenced operations. The Bank, which was originally set up as a shareholder’s bank, was nationalised in 1949.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (II of 1934) provides the statutory basis of the functioning of the Bank, which commenced operations on April 1, 1935. * To operate the credit and currency system of the country to its advantage.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Bank was inaugurated on July 1, 1948 by Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who thus observed on the guiding principles of the newly-created central bank: “I need hardly dilate on the important role that the State Bank will have to play in regulating the economic life of our country.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Reserve Bank of India was nationalised with effect from 1st January, 1949 on the basis of the Reserve Bank of India (Transfer to Public Ownership) Act, 1948. All shares in the capital of the Bank were deemed transferred to the Central Government on payment of a suitable compensation.

Detailed explanation-5: -Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India (RBI) was so renamed in place of Industrial Reconstruction Corporation Ltd.