Reserve Bank of India, South Zonal Office 1935 and was operated from a rented premises of the State Bank of India office building located at Parry's Corner. The present building was constructed in the 1960s by Tarapore Company. Zonal Training Centre of RBI Reserve Bank of India, South Zonal Office The Reserve Bank of India in Chennai is one of the four zonal representations of the Reserve Bank of India, the central bank of India, the other three being located in New Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata. The central office of the Reserve Bank is located in Mumbai. The Chennai office serves the southern region of the country.
Reserve Bank of India also a banker to the government and performs merchant banking function for the central and the state governments. It also acts as their banker. The National Housing Bank (NHB) was established in 1988 to promote private real estate acquisition. The institution maintains banking accounts of all scheduled banks, too. RBI on 7 August 2012 said that Indian banking system is resilient enough to face the stress caused by the drought-like situation because of poor monsoon this year. The Reserve Bank has custody of the country's reserves of international currency, and this enables the Reserve Bank to deal with crisis connected