NEW DELHI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday asked scheduled commercial banks and co-operative banks not to make any dividends for the financial year ending March 2020 and said it will review this stand in September.
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das today said this was being done to conserve cash in view of the challenges posed by covid-19. The central bank today also cut the reverse repo rate by 25 basis points to 3.75% while announcing liquidity steps for non-banking finance companies (NBFC).
It kept the repo rate unchanged at 4.4%. To improve liquidity for NBFC, Das announced the launch of second installment of TLTRO -- TLTRO 2.0 -- for easing credit to NBFCs.