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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തീയതി: സെപ്റ്റംബർ 19, 1998

Item	1998-99			1997-98
(Rs. crore)
	Outstanding as on		Variations (3) - (2)	Outstanding as on		Variations (6) - (5)
	1998			1997
	March 27	August 28		March 28	August 29
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1. Bank Credit	3,24,079	3,23,670	-408	2,78,401	2,77,099	-1,302
			(-0.1)			(-0.5)
A. Food Credit	12,485	16,698	4,213	7,597	9,442	1,846
B. Non-Food Credit	3,11,594	3,06,973	-4,621	2,70,805	2,67,657	-3,148
			(-1.5)			(-1.2)
2. Investments £	33,084	40,014	6,930	19,411	24,827	5,416
A. Commercial Paper	2,070	4,463	2,392	652	2,262	1,611
B. Bonds/Debentures/Preference Shares issued by	29,545	33,963	4,419	17,573	21,340	3,768
a. Public Sector Undertakings	20,013	21,465	1,453	15,209	17,301	2,091
b. Private Corporate Sector	9,532	12,498	2,966	2,363	4,039	1,676
C. Equity Shares issued by PSUs and Private Corporate Sector	1,425	1,524	99	1,158	1,196	38
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	435	206	1,029	426	-603
4. Total of (1B + 2 + 3)	3,44,907	3,47,422	2,515	2,91,245	2,92,910	1,665
* : Subject to changes as a result of introduction of common valuation method and uniform classification. @ : Upto August 14, 1998. @@ : Upto July 31, 1998 + : Upto August 15, 1997. ++ : Upto July 31, 1997. Note: 1. Figures in brackets are percentage variations. 2. Data on Investments are Provisional and Tentative.