5. Accommodation Provided by Scheduled Commercial Banks to Commercial Sector in the form of Bank Credit and Investments in Shares/Debentures/Bonds/Commercial Paper etc.

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तिथि: जनवरी 16, 1999

							(Rs. crore)

			1998-99				1997-98
			Outstanding		Variations		Outstanding		Variations
			as on		(3) - (2)		as on		(6) - (5)
		*Item*	1998 1999				1997 1998
			Mar. 27	Jan. 1			Mar. 28	Jan. 2
		1	2	3	4		5	6	7

1.	Bank Credit		3,24,079	3,44,024	19,945		2,78,401	3,00,526	22,125
					(6.2)				(7.9)

	A.	Food Credit	12,485	16,101	3,616		7,597	11,856	4,259

	B.	Non-Food Credit	3,11,594	3,27,923	16,329		2,70,805	2,88,670	17,865
					(5.2)				(6.6)

2.	Investments		33,084	44,116	@	11,032	19,411	32,948 +	13,537

	A.	Commercial Paper	2,066	4,637	2,571		652	6,061	5,409

	B.	Bonds/Debentures/Preference Shares issued by	29,548	37,750	8,202		17,573	25,420	7,847

		a. Public Sector Undertakings	20,016	22,871	2,855		15,209	18,456	3,247

		b. Private Corporate Sector	9,532	14,878	5,347		2,363	6,964	4,600

	C.	Equity Shares issued by PSUs and Private	1,427	1,666	239		1,158	1,439	281
		Corporate Sector

	D.	Loans to Corporates against shares held by them to enable them to meet the promoters' contribution to the equity of new companies in anticipation of raising resources	44	64	20		29	29

3.	Bills rediscounted with Financial Institutions		229	616	@@	387	1,029	614 ++	-415

4.	Total of (1B + 2 + 3)		3,44,907	3,72,655	27,748		2,91,245	3,22,232	30,987

	*	:	Subject to changes as a result of introduction of common valuation method and uniform classification.
	@	:	Upto December 4,1998. @@ : Upto November 30,1998.	+ : December 5, 1997.	++ : Upto November 30, 1997.
	£	:	In view of inadequate availability of latest data, the information about investments have been repeated.

Note :	1.		Figures in brackets are percentage variations.
	2.		Data on Investments are Provisional and Tentative.