(As on the last reporting Friday)

(Amount in Rs. crore)

Sector

March 2000

March 2001@

March 2002@

Amount

Percentage

Amount

Percentage

Amount

Percentage

to Net bank

to Net bank

to Net bank

credit

credit

credit

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

I. Agriculture

4,023

8.3

5,394

8.5

8,022

8.5

II. Small-scale industries

8,000

16.5

8,158

14.4

8,613

13.7

III. Other priority sectors #

6,345

12.0

7,998

14.2

9,074

14.4

Total (I+II+III)

18,368

38.0

21,550

38.2

25,709

40.9

@ Data are provisional.
# Inclusive of advances to setting up industrial estates, funds provided to RRBs by sponsor banks, loan to software industries, food and agro-processing sector, self-help group and venture capital.
Note: Indirect Agriculture is reckoned upto 4.5 per cent of Net Bank Credit for calculation of percentage of Agriculture.