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The Central Bank is an 'apex' body that operates, controls, regulates and direct the entire banking and monetary structure of the country. It is known as supreme or apex body because it occupies the top position in monetary and banking system in a country. All the financially developed countries has there own central bank. India' central bank is known as the Reserve Bank of India it was established in April 1 1935.
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###Currency authority
Central bank has whole authority for issue of currency in a country. The reserve Bank of India has a full and sole right of issuing paper currency notes.
The reserve Bank of India acts as a banker, agent and a advisor of finances to the government and state government.
There are many commerical banks in a country. There should be an agency to regulate and supervise their proper functioning. i. Custodian of cash reserves: the banks are required to keep a portion of deposits with the central bank. ii. Lender of the last resort: when a bank fails to meet their financial requirements they approach the central bank to give loans and advances as lender .
The reserve Bank of India regulate the money supply in the economy through the monetary policy.
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Repo rate is the rate at which Central bank of a country lends money to commercial banks to meet their short term needs.
Bank rate is the rate at which the central bank lends money to commercial bank to meet its long term needs.
Reverse repo rate is the rate of interest at which commercial banks can deposit their surplus funds with the central bank for a shorter period of time.
