MUMBAI: A premature pause in rate hike at this juncture could be a costly policy error as the battle against inflation is not over, RBI governor Shaktikanta Das opined while voting for 35 basis-point raise in the key lending rate earlier in the month, said minutes of the MPC meeting released on Wednesday.
Prior to the December hike in repo rate, the RBI had raised the key short-term lending rate by 190 bps in four tranches.