- RBI established on 1st April, 1935 under RBI Act 1934.
- RBI was nationalised in 1949 under the Banking Regulation Act 1949.
- First Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) – Osborne Smith
- First Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) – James B. Taylor
- Present Governor of RBI – Shaktikanta Das
- RBI Established on the recommendations of – Hilton Young Commission.
- Headquarter – It is located in Mumbai.
- Zonal offices of RBI Located at – 4 Places, Namely Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai & Delhi
- The central office was initially located at – Calcutta.
- Currently, the Central office is located in – Mumbai, it was permanently moved in 1937.
- Dr. Manmohan Singh is the only person who has been Governor of RBI, Finance Minister and PM of India.
- RBI has 31 branches in India. Mostly all are in Capital cities, exceptions are the Nagpur Reserve Bank branch which is actually a Second capital of Maharashtra and the Ahmedabad Reserve Bank branch.
- Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note Mudran (BRBNM) is a specialized division of RBI through which it prints and mints Indian currency notes (INR).
- The RBI established the NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India) as one of its specialized divisions to regulate the payment and settlement systems in India.
- National Payments Corporation of India was established RBI in Dec 2008 for the purpose of management of the payment and settlement systems in India.
- Shaktikanta Das inaugurated the Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH) on 24 March 2022 in Bengaluru as Section-8 company under Companies Act, 2013, with an initial investment of ₹100 crore to encourage and nurture financial innovation in a sustainable manner through an institutional set-up.