Today, the Reserve Bank released the August 2024 issue of its monthly Bulletin. The Bulletin includes monetary policy statement, five speeches, seven articles, and current statistics. The seven articles are: I. State of the Economy; II. Are Food Prices Spilling Over?; III. Union Budget 2024-25: An Assessment; IV. Estimate of Spare Capacity for India’s Services Sector; V. Evolution of FinTech and Central Banks: A Text Mining-Based Survey; VI. Private Corporate Investment: Growth in 2023-24 and Outlook for 2024-25; and VII. Measuring Progress in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): An Application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) on Budget Documents. 

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2023 2024 Variation Aug. 11 Aug. 2 Aug. 9 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 14255 31072 32993 1922 18738 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended August 09, 2024.

Today, the Reserve Bank released the results of the 2023-24 round of the survey of Foreign Liabilities and Assets of the Mutual Fund (MF) Companies1. The survey covered 45 Indian MF companies (list in Annex) and their Asset Management Companies (AMCs), which held/acquired foreign assets/ liabilities during 2023-24 and/or in the preceding years. The information on face value and market value of units held by non-residents, unit premium reserve, other foreign liabilities and assets of MF companies as at end of the financial year were collected under the survey. The external assets and liabilities of their AMCs were taken from the annual census on foreign liabilities and assets (FLA) of direct investment companies for the reference period. Highlights:

The Reserve Bank has constituted an Expert Committee to: (a) benchmark the statistics regularly disseminated by it against global standards / best practices; (b) study the quality of other regular data, where such benchmarks do not exist (e.g., sectors of national priority); and (c) provide guidance on the scope for any further data refinement. Following is the composition of the Expert Committee: 1 Dr. Michael Debabrata Patra Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India Chairman

(Amount in ₹ crore) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs,SFBs and PBs) ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 28-Jul-2023 12-Jul-2024* 26-Jul-2024* 28-Jul-2023 12-Jul-2024* 26-Jul-2024* I LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from banks 246355.08 277025.27 281124.93 248613.62 281004.70 285213.34 b) Borrowings from banks 193269.47 137361.61 138751.80 193383.48 137371.11 138778.69 c) Other demand & time liabilities 66076.62 75090.42 75247.02 66775.50 75387.79 75507.85 II LIABILITIES TO OTHERS (A)

The Reserve Bank of India has today released the data on Overseas Direct Investment, both under Automatic Route and the Approval Route, for the month of July 2024.

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2023 2024 Variation Aug. 4 Jul. 26 Aug. 2 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 23123 21239 31072 9832 7949 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

The Reserve Bank of India today released on its website the results of the following Surveys:  i) Consumer Confidence Survey (CCS) – July 2024 ii) Inflation Expectations Survey of Households (IESH) – July 2024 iii) OBICUS Survey on manufacturing sector – Q4:2023-24 iv) Industrial Outlook Survey of the Manufacturing Sector for Q1:2024-25 v) Survey of Professional Forecasters on Macroeconomic Indicators – Round[1] 89th vi) Bank Lending Survey for Q1:2024-25 vii) Services and Infrastructure Outlook Survey for Q1:2024-25  The Survey results are based on the feedback received from the respondents to the Surveys and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Reserve Bank of India.

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended August 02, 2024 and Money Supply for the fortnight ended July 26, 2024.