The government, along with the regulator, is carefully watching the rupee, which has slipped below the 90 mark against the US dollar, and may take measures once the situation becomes uncomfortable, Economic Affairs Secretary Anuradha Thakur said on Monday.
“Anything above 90, everyone starts talking about it. Even, we start watching it carefully. It is a question of flows, and we are impacted by that,” he told PTI in an interview.
However, she said, a depreciating rupee does have a certain value in terms of export competitiveness whenever it happens.
“We are watching together with regulators and other stakeholders. We will see how to handle it if a situation more than uncomfortable happens,” she said.
According to the Economic Survey 2025-26, the rupee depreciated by around 6.5 per cent between 1 April 2025 and January 22, 2026, making it one of the weakest-performing currencies in this period.
Its fall was comparable to that of the Japanese yen, which lost about 5.5 per cent, and​The government, along with the regulator, is carefully watching the rupee, which has slipped below the 90 mark against the US dollar, and may take measures once the situation becomes uncomfortable, Economic Affairs Secretary Anuradha Thakur said on Monday.
“Anything above 90, everyone starts talking about it. Even, we start watching it carefully. It is a question of flows, and we are impacted by that,” he told PTI in an interview.
However, she said, a depreciating rupee does have a certain value in terms of export competitiveness whenever it happens.
“We are watching together with regulators and other stakeholders. We will see how to handle it if a situation more than uncomfortable happens,” she said.
According to the Economic Survey 2025-26, the rupee depreciated by around 6.5 per cent between 1 April 2025 and January 22, 2026, making it one of the weakest-performing currencies in this period.
Its fall was comparable to that of the Japanese yen, which lost about 5.5 per cent, and ​Latest News [ SOBAN NEWS: International and National ]
