NS Vishwanathan re-appointed RBI deputy governor for one year

Highlights

  • Vishwanathan is one of the three deputy governors, besides B P Kanungo and M K Jain, working at the central bank
  • Viral Acharya had last month resigned from the post of deputy governor, RBI
NS Vishwanathan (File photo)NS Vishwanathan (File photo)
NEW DELHI: NS Vishwanathan was Monday re-appointed as deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for one more year, an official order said.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved re-appointment of Vishwanathan as the deputy governor for a period of one more year with effect from July 4 this year, the order issued by the personnel ministry said.


His existing tenure was to end on Wednesday, July 3.


Vishwanathan is one of the three deputy governors, besides B P Kanungo and M K Jain, working at the central bank.


Viral Acharya had last month resigned from the post of deputy governor, RBI.


RBI deputy governor Viral Acharya quits six months before his term ends, to return to academia

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) deputy governor Viral Acharya has put in his papers six months before his term ends on January 20, 2020. Acharya, who joined RBI from New York University’s Stern School of Business, was a close aide of former governor Urjit Patel and it was his fiery speech in October 2018 that brought out the differences between RBI and the government.


Acharya, a New York University economics professor who once called himself the 'poor man's Raghuram Rajan', resigned six months before the scheduled end of his three-year term.
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