KATHMANDU, Sept. 17 -- Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) on Thursday injected an additional Rs 20 billion in the domestic financial system in an attempt to ease a growing shortfall of liquidity in the banking system.

According to NRB, it issued a repo worth the given amount through the bidding process for the next two weeks. Last week too, the central bank injected Rs 30 billion through the monetary measure.

The country's financial market is currently under pressure to manage liquidity, which has been blamed largely on the NRB implementing the rule of credit-deposit (CD) ratio. Through the monetary policy, NRB has replaced the provision of credit to core-capital plus deposit (CCD) ratio with a maximum limit of 85 percent by CD ratio with a ceilin...