NS Vishwanathan re-appointed deputy governor, RBI for one year

NS Vishwanathan was on Monday (July 1) 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.

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His existing tenure was to end Wednesday, July 3. Viral Acharya had last month resigned from the post of deputy governor, RBI.

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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NS Vishwanathan was Monday re-appointed as deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for one more year, an official order said.