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Sectoral Deployment of Bank Credit - May 2023

Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit for the month of May 20231 collected from 40 select scheduled commercial banks, accounting for about 93 per cent of the total non-food credit deployed by all scheduled commercial banks, are set out in Statements I and II.

On a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, non-food bank credit2 registered a growth of 15.6 per cent in May 2023 as compared with 12.7 per cent a year ago.

Highlights of the sectoral deployment of bank credit are given below:

  • Credit growth to agriculture and allied activities accelerated to 16.0 per cent (y-o-y) in May 2023 from 11.7 per cent a year ago.

  • Credit to industry registered a growth of 6.0 per cent (y-o-y) in May 2023 as compared with 8.8 per cent in May 2022. Size-wise, credit growth to large industry was 3.9 per cent (2.1 per cent a year ago). Credit to medium industries grew by 18.9 per cent (42.9 per cent last year) and micro and small industries by 9.5 per cent (32.7 per cent a year ago).

  • Among major industries, credit growth (y-o-y) accelerated in May 2023 for ‘basic metal & metal products’, ‘beverage & tobacco’, ‘construction’ and ‘textiles’ as compared with the corresponding month of the previous year. Credit growth decelerated for ‘chemicals & chemical products’, ‘food processing’ and ‘infrastructure’.

  • Credit growth to services sector accelerated to 21.4 per cent (y-o-y) in May 2023 from 12.7 per cent a year ago, primarily due to the improved credit offtake to ‘Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs)’ and ‘trade’.

  • Personal loans expanded by 19.2 per cent (y-o-y) in May 2023 vis-à-vis 16.3 per cent a year ago, mainly driven by ‘housing’ and ‘vehicle loans’.

Ajit Prasad            
Director (Communications)

Press Release: 2023-2024/502


1 Data pertain to the last reporting Friday of the month.

2 Non-food credit data are based on Section-42 return for the last reporting Friday of the month, which covers all scheduled commercial banks (SCBs).

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