Rupee value against the US dollar is somewhat of a national obsession: the most tracked number in the Indian economic psyche, next only to the growth figures perhaps. On August 29, 2025, the rupee closed at 88.14 breaching the highly speculated 88-mark, and depreciated to 88.71 on September 24, 2025. With the breach, further conjectures around 90-mark reached a crescendo and added to the usual speculation of RBI’s intervention in the forex market to stall the rupee slide.

How does the rupee weakening impact us? And therefore, do we need to stall the rupee slide? There is no denying that for an import dependent nation like ours, rupee exchange value has a substantial impact through the import cost on essential commodities like fuel, fertilizers, iron and steel, and machinery and equipment.

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