The Reserve Bank of India will conduct OMO purchase for an aggregate amount of Rs 50,000 crore on January 05, 2026, the central bank said in a statement. This is a part of the Reserve Bank’s earlier announced Rs 2 lakh crore OMO purchase plan.
Earlier on December 23, the RBI announced that it will purchase government bonds worth Rs 2 lakh crore between December 29 and January 22, while also conducting a $10 billion dollar-rupee buy/sell swap on January 12 to infuse liquidity in the market.
The Reserve Bank’s OMO purchase auctions for the Government of India securities were scheduled to take place on December 29, January 05, January 12, and January 22 in tranches of Rs 50,000 crore.
Key measures by RBI in 2025
The biggest highlight of the year for the Reserve Bank was its decision to cut its key rates at four of the six monetary policy reviews of 2025 by a cumulative 1.25 per cent, courtesy inflation touching record lows, in what the newly appointed Governor Sanjay Malhotra called a “rare Goldilocks period” for the economy.
Malhotra cut the key rates right from his first policy announcement in February to support growth, and also slashed key rates by 0.50 per cent in June as it saw the space created by lower inflation.
Further, one of the biggest challenges for the RBI this year was the rupee breaching the 90 to a dollar mark. The central bank, which maintains that market interventions are guided by an aim to reduce volatilities and not defend a level, sold over USD 38 billion of forex in the first nine months of the year as the domestic currency depreciated against the greenback.
Regulation changes highlights
This year, the RBI also came down on its previously mulled draft on project finance, requiring banks to set aside up to 5 per cent provisions on loans. The move was flagged as a challenge by bankers, but the RBI brass had maintained that this was “conservative” given the previous experiences with lending to the segment.
Apart from the regulatory relaxations, banks got a big breather in the form of almost no major supervisory action from the RBI this year, a departure from the central bank’s actions under Malhotra’s predecessor, Shaktikanta Das, where even major lenders were slapped with cease-and-desist orders.