Governor Patel gets ₹2 lakh pay, no supporting staff at home: RBI

NEW DELHI: RBI governor Urjit Patel gets a little over ₹2 lakh as salary and has not been provided with any supporting staff at his residence, the central bank has said. Patel, who took over as RBI Governor in September, is presently in possession of the bank’s flat (deputy governor’s flat) at Mumbai, it said.

“No supporting staff has been provided to the present governor, Urjit Patel, at his residence. Two cars and two drivers have been provided to the present governor,” the RBI said in reply to an RTI query.

The bank was asked to provide details of remuneration given to former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan and incumbent Patel.

For October – the first full month Patel was in office as governor – Patel got ₹2.09 lakh as his salary, the same amount drawn by Rajan as his salary in August. Rajan demitted office as governor on September 4.

Rajan had assumed the charge of RBI governor on September 5, 2013 at a monthly salary of ₹1.69 lakh.

Rajan was provided with three cars and four drivers. “One caretaker and nine maintenance attendants were posted as supporting staff in the bungalow provided by the bank,” RBI said in its reply.