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Academic advisory council for College Of Supervisors (COS) set up
Part of: GS Prelims and GS-III – Economy
In news
- The RBI has set up an academic advisory council with former deputy governor N S Vishwanathan as the chairperson to advise the full-time director of the central bank’s College of Supervisors (CoS).
- Functions: (1) Identify areas where skill building/up-skilling is required; (2) Plan and develop curricula of all programmes; (3) Benchmark the programmes with international standards/best practices; (4) Develop appropriate teaching methods, etc.
Important value additions
College of Supervisors (CoS)
- Set up by: RBI
- It was set up as part of the measures to further strengthen Supervision over regulated entities.
- Objective: To augment and reinforce supervisory skills among its regulatory and supervisory staff both at entry level and on a continuous basis.
- While the CoS was functioning in a limited way in virtual mode since May 2020, it is now being fully operationalised.
- This will further contribute to effective oversight of the regulated entities by augmenting and ensuring a consistent quality of supervisory resources pool.
- The CoS will have a full-time Director supported by an Academic Advisory Council (AAC).
- Rabi Narayan Mishra, former Executive Director, RBI has been appointed as the Director of CoS.
