The Reserve Bank of India hosted the Nineteenth C.D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture on November 28, 2024 in Mumbai. The lecture was delivered by Dr. P. K. Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India. The text of his lecture “Transforming Small-holder Agriculture in India in the 21st Century: Challenges and Strategies” is placed at www.rbi.org.in.

Data on lending and deposit rates of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) (excluding regional rural banks and small finance banks) received during the month of November 2024 are set out in Tables 1 to 7. Highlights: Lending Rates: • The weighted average lending rate (WALR) on fresh rupee loans of SCBs stood at 9.54 per cent in October 2024 (9.37 per cent in September 2024).

Today, the Reserve Bank released its quarterly house price index (HPI) (base: 2010-11=100) for Q2:2024-25, based on transaction-level data received from the registration authorities in ten major cities . Time series data on all-India and city-wise HPIs are available at the Bank’s database on Indian economy (DBIE) portal (https://data.rbi.org.in/DBIE/#/dbie/home> Statistics > Real Sector > Prices & Wages).

The value of exports and imports of services during October 2024 is given in the following table. International Trade in Services (US$ million) Month Receipts (Exports) Payments (Imports) July – 2024 30,580 (16.6) 15,903 (15.7) August – 2024 30,340 (5.7) 16,423 (8.8)

Today, the Reserve Bank released data on the performance of the private corporate sector during the second quarter of 2024-25, drawn from abridged quarterly financial results of 2,911 listed non-government non-financial companies. This summary position also includes comparable data for Q2:2023-24 and Q1:2024-25 to enable study of sequential (q-o-q) and annual (y-o-y) change (web-link https://data.rbi.org.in/DBIE/#/dbie/reports/Statistics/Corporate%20Sector/Listed%20Non-Government%20Non-Financial%20Companies ).

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2023 2024 Variation Nov. 24 Nov. 15 Nov. 22 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 0 11817 0 -11817 0 4.2 State Governments 16275 28634 22714 -5920 6439 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit for the month of October 2024 collected from 41 select scheduled commercial banks, accounting for about 95 per cent of the total non-food credit deployed by all scheduled commercial banks, are set out in Statements I and II.

(Amount in ₹ Crore) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs, SFBs and PBs) ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 17-Nov-2023 01-Nov-2024* 15-Nov-2024* 17-Nov-2023 01-Nov-2024* 15-Nov-2024* I LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from banks 241123.09 289863.65 285900.51 244489.67 294354.23 291084.89** b) Borrowings from banks 187366.53 135897.86 136118.41 187461.76 136048.36 136192.88 c) Other demand & time liabilities 71762.95 24969.58 24937.38 72490.30 25304.29 25293.90

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended November 22, 2024 and Money Supply for the fortnight ended November 15, 2024.

Today, the Reserve Bank released the web publication ‘Deposits with Scheduled Commercial Banks – September 2024 ’ on its ‘Database on Indian Economy’ portal (https://data.rbi.org.in Homepage > Publications). Scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) {excluding regional rural banks (RRBs)} report branch-wise data on type of deposits (current, savings and term), its institutional sector wise ownership, age wise distribution of deposits pertaining to individuals, maturity pattern, size and interest rate range wise distribution of term deposits as well as number of employees in the quarterly ‘Basic Statistical Return’ (BSR) - 2 return. These data are released at disaggregated level (viz., population groups , bank groups, states, districts and centres).

Today, the Reserve Bank released its web publication entitled ‘Quarterly Basic Statistical Returns (BSR)-1: Outstanding Credit of Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) - September 2024 ’ on its ‘Database on Indian Economy’ portal (https://data.rbi.org.in Homepage > Publications). It captures various characteristics of bank credit such as occupation/activity and organisational sector of the borrower, type of account and interest rates based on account-level reporting . Data reported by SCBs {excluding Regional Rural Banks (RRBs)} are presented for bank groups, population groups and states.

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2023 2024 Variation Nov. 17 Nov. 8 Nov. 15 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 0 0 11817 11817 11817 4.2 State Governments 17338 37124 28634 -8490 11296 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

Today, the  Reserve Bank released the November 2024 issue of its monthly  Bulletin. The Bulletin includes five  speeches, five articles, and current statistics. The five articles  are: I. State of the Economy; II. A Suite of Approaches for Estimating  Equilibrium Exchange Rates for India; III. Dynamic Landscape of Monetary Policy  Communication in India; IV. Agri-tech Startups and Innovations in Indian  Agriculture; and V. Seasonality in Key Economic Indicators of India.

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2023 2024 Variation Nov. 10 Nov. 1 Nov. 8 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 20013 31294 37124 5830 17111 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Money Supply for the fortnight ended November 01, 2024.

(Amount in ₹ crore) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs,SFBs and PBs) ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 03-Nov-2023 18-Oct-2024* 01-Nov-2024* 03-Nov-2023 18-Oct-2024* 01-Nov-2024* I LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from banks 242686.82 294002.82 290287.21 246091.59 298612.42 294777.80** b) Borrowings from banks 195603.05 130776.35 135892.91 196154.31 130806.35 136043.42 c) Other demand & time liabilities 72833.36 23257.12 24605.44 73572.48 23586.00 24940.14

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended November 08, 2024.

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 October 2024.

The Reserve Bank of India has today released the data on External Commercial Borrowings (ECB), Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds (FCCB) and Rupee Denominated Bonds (RDB) both, through Automatic Route and Approval Route, for the month of September 2024.

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2023 2024 Variation Nov. 3 Oct. 25 Nov. 1 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 26781 24079 31294 7214 4513 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

The Reserve Bank of India today released the data showing daily merchant and Inter-Bank transactions in foreign exchange for the period October 28 – October 31, 2024

The Reserve Bank of India today released the data showing daily merchant and Inter-Bank transactions in foreign exchange for the period October 21 – October 25, 2024.

The Reserve Bank of India today released the data showing daily merchant and Inter-Bank transactions in foreign exchange for the period October 14 – October 18, 2024. All Figures are in USD Millions Position Date MERCHANT INTER BANK FCY / INR FCY / FCY FCY / INR FCY / FCY Spot Forward Forward Cancel Spot Forward Forward Cancel Spot Swap Forward Spot Swap Forward Purchase 14-10-2024 2,536 1,534 640 317 187 235 7,222 6,809 2,067 4,528 1,468 142 15-10-2024 5,175 1,378 1,120 502 397 410 14,247 19,420 3,323 10,502 3,027 201

The Reserve Bank of India today released the data showing daily merchant and Inter-Bank transactions in foreign exchange for the period October 07 – October 11, 2024.

The Reserve Bank of India today released the data showing daily merchant and Inter-Bank transactions in foreign exchange for the period September 30 – October 04, 2024. All Figures are in USD Millions Position Date MERCHANT INTER BANK FCY / INR FCY / FCY FCY / INR FCY / FCY Spot Forward Forward Cancel Spot Forward Forward Cancel Spot Swap Forward Spot Swap Forward Purchases 30-09-2024 1,083 738 307 251 153 192 1,800 2,840 102 1,786 563 357 01-10-2024 4,753 1,162 1,041 681 520 447 16,089 21,263 1,941 10,726 3,344 286 03-10-2024 5,845 1,766 406 709 706 479 17,465 19,609 2,452 12,030 2,704 308

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended November 01, 2024.

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2023 2024 Variation Oct. 27 Oct. 18 Oct. 25 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 21871 23398 24079 682 2208 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

Data on lending and deposit rates of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) (excluding regional rural banks and small finance banks) received during the month of October 2024 are set out in Tables 1 to 7.

The Reserve Bank today released data on India’s invisibles as per the IMF’s Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (BPM6) format for April - June of 2024-25.

The value of exports and imports of services during September 2024 is given in the following table. International Trade in Services (US$ million) Month Receipts (Exports) Payments (Imports) July – 2024 30,580 (16.6) 15,903 (15.7) August – 2024 30,340 (5.7) 16,423 (8.8) September – 2024 32,579 (14.6) 16,507 (13.2) Notes: (i) Data are provisional; and (ii) Figures in parentheses are growth rates over the corresponding month of the previous year which have been revised on the basis of balance of payments statistics.

Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit for the month of September 2024 collected from 41 select scheduled commercial banks, accounting for about 95 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 credit in September 2024 grew at 14.4 per cent, as compared to 15.3 per cent a year ago.

(Amount in ₹ crore) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs,SFBs and PBs) ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 20-Oct-2023 04-Oct-2024* 18-Oct-2024* 20-Oct-2023 04-Oct-2024* 18-Oct-2024* I LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from banks 240291.21 287920.78 294002.82 244279.94 292252.74 298612.42** b) Borrowings from banks 200948.20 127899.61 130776.35 201039.57 127950.17 130806.35 c) Other demand & time liabilities 71636.68 22225.29 23256.84 72437.00 22565.39 23585.72

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended October 25, 2024 and Money Supply for the fortnight ended October 18, 2024.

The Reserve Bank of India has been regularly conducting Inflation Expectations Survey of Households (IESH). The November 2024 round of the survey is being launched. The survey aims at capturing subjective assessments on price movements and inflation, based on their individual consumption baskets, across 19 cities, viz., Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jammu, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi and Thiruvananthapuram.

The Reserve Bank of India has been regularly conducting Consumer Confidence Survey (CCS). The November 2024 round of the survey is being launched. The survey seeks qualitative responses from households, regarding their sentiments on general economic situation, employment scenario, price level, households’ income and spending.

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2023 2024 Variation Oct. 20 Oct. 11 Oct. 18 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 20227 9074 23398 14324 3171 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

Today, the Reserve Bank released the results of 2023-24 round of its survey on international trade in banking services (ITBS). This annual survey focuses on cross-border fund-based banking services (e.g., deposits, credit) as well as financial auxiliary services with explicit/implicit fees/commissions charged by foreign branches/ subsidiaries (including joint ventures) of Indian banks as well as foreign banks operating in India (details of the services are given in the Annex). The latest round of the survey covers 14 Indian banks having overseas branches/subsidiaries and 45 foreign banks having branches/subsidiaries in India.

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended October 18, 2024.

Today, the Reserve Bank released the October 2024 issue of its monthly Bulletin. The Bulletin includes Monetary Policy Statement (October 7-9) 2024-2025, six speeches, seven articles, and current statistics. The seven articles are: I. State of the Economy; II. Monetary Policy Transmission in India: The Recent Experience; III. Nowcasting Food Inflation in India: Leveraging Price and Non-Price Signals through Machine Learning; IV. How Indian Banks are Adopting Artificial Intelligence?; V. COVID-19 and Performance of MSME Clusters in India; VI. Cash Usage Indicator for India; and VII. New Digital Economy and the Paradox of Productivity.

Today, the Reserve Bank released the data related to the 2023-24 round of its annual survey on computer software and information technology enabled services (ITES) exports. The survey collects details on India’s exports of software services {computer services and ITES/business process outsourcing (BPO) services} as per type of activity, on-site/off-site nature of services, country of destination and modes of supply.

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2023 2024 Variation Oct. 13 Oct. 4 Oct. 11 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 20364 35809 9074 -26735 -11290 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

The Reserve Bank of India today released the data showing daily merchant and Inter-Bank transactions in foreign exchange for the period September 23 – September 27, 2024.

The Reserve Bank of India today released the data showing daily merchant and Inter-Bank transactions in foreign exchange for the period September 16 – September 20, 2024.

The Reserve Bank of India today released the data showing daily merchant and Inter-Bank transactions in foreign exchange for the period September 09 – September 13, 2024.

The Reserve Bank of India today released the data showing daily merchant and Inter-Bank transactions in foreign exchange for the period September 02 – September 06, 2024.

The Reserve Bank of India has today released the data on External Commercial Borrowings (ECB), Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds (FCCB) and Rupee Denominated Bonds (RDB) both, through Automatic Route and Approval Route, for the month of August 2024.

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended October 11, 2024 and Money Supply for the fortnight ended October 04, 2024.

The Reserve Bank has launched the 108th round of the quarterly Industrial Outlook Survey (IOS) of the Indian manufacturing sector for the reference period October-December 2024. The survey assesses business sentiment for the current quarter (Q3:2024-25) and expectations for the ensuing quarter (Q4:2024-25), based on qualitative responses on a set of indicators pertaining to demand conditions, financial conditions, employment conditions and the price situation. The outlook on key parameters for the two subsequent quarters (Q1:2025-26 and Q2:2025-26) are also covered.

The Reserve Bank has launched the 43rd round of the quarterly Services and Infrastructure Outlook Survey (SIOS) for the reference period October-December 2024. The survey assesses the business situation for the current quarter (Q3:2024-25) from selected companies in the services and infrastructure sectors in India and their expectations for the ensuing quarter (Q4:2024-25) based on qualitative responses on a set of indicators pertaining to demand conditions, financial conditions, employment conditions and the price situation. The outlook on key parameters for the two subsequent quarters (Q1:2025-26 and Q2:2025-26) are also covered.

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 September 2024.