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Updated - April 17, 2026 at 03:05 PM.

| Mumbai

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday pulled out ₹2,00,031 crore transient liquidity from the banking system through a seven-day variable rate reverse repo (VRRR) auction.

The central bank had received higher bids worth ₹2,28,098 crore than the notified amount of ₹2 lakh crore in the auction.

The RBI accepted the bid at a 5.24 per cent cut-off rate and 5.23 per cent weighted average rate.

Currently, the liquidity in the banking system is estimated to be in surplus of around Rs 4.09 lakh crore.

Before this, the central bank had conducted a seven-day VRRR auction on April 10 and pulled out ₹2,00,041 crore of transient liquidity from the banking system. These funds were reversed today into the banking system.

"Going ahead, we will continue to be proactive and pre-emptive in liquidity management and ensure sufficient liquidity in the banking system to meet the productive requirements of the economy," RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra said during the April monetary policy.

Published on April 17, 2026

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