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(For the Quarter ending September 2024) After reviewing the cash position of the Central Government, the Reserve Bank of India, in consultation with the Government of India, hereby, notifies the calendar for issuance of Treasury Bills for the quarter ending September 2024 as under: Notified Amount for Auction of Treasury Bills (July 01, 2024 to September 30, 2024) (₹ Crore) Date of Auction Date of Issue 91 Days 182 Days 364 Days Total July 3, 2024 July 4, 2024 8,000 6,000 6,000 20,000 July 10, 2024 July 11, 2024 8,000 6,000 6,000 20,000

The Reserve Bank of India, in consultation with the State Governments/Union Territories (UTs), announces that the quantum of total market borrowings by the State Governments/UTs for the quarter July – September 2024, is expected to be ₹2,63,562 Crore. The weekly schedule of auctions to be held during the quarter along with the name of States/UTs who have confirmed participation and tentative amounts indicated by them is as under

The limits for financial accommodation extended by the Reserve Bank of India to State Governments / Union Territories (UTs) through Special Drawing Facility (SDF), Ways and Means Advances (WMA), and Overdraft (OD) schemes were last reviewed and announced on April 01, 2022.

Today, the Reserve Bank released data on the performance of the private corporate sector during 2023-24 drawn from abridged financial results of 3,281 listed non-government non-financial (NGNF) companies. These also include data for 2022-23 to enable comparison (web-link https://data.rbi.org.in/DBIE) Highlights Sales Annual sales growth of listed private non-financial companies moderated to 4.7 per cent during 2023-24 from the high of 19.8 per cent in 2022-23, which included the post-pandemic recovery period (Table 1A). Among major sectors, sales of manufacturing, information technology (IT) and non-IT services companies rose by 3.5 per cent, 5.5 per cent and 7.9 per cent, respectively, during 2023 

Data on lending and deposit rates of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) (excluding regional rural banks and small finance banks) received during the month of June 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 9.39 per cent in May 2024 (9.55 per cent in April 2024). • The WALR on outstanding rupee loans of SCBs was unchanged at 9.83 per cent in May 2024. • 1-Year median Marginal Cost of fund-based Lending Rate (MCLR) of SCBs moved to 8.85 per cent in June 2024 from 8.79 per cent in May 2024.

The value of exports and imports of services during May 2024 is given in the following table. International Trade in Services (US$ million) Month Receipts (Exports) Payments (Imports) January – 2024 31,009 (10.7) 14,842 (0.1) February – 2024 28,335 (3.4) 15,231 (1.7) March – 2024 30,014 (-1.4) 16,599 (-2.1) April – 2024 

(Amount in ₹ crore) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs,SFBs and PBs) ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 16-Jun-23 31-May-2024* 14-Jun-2024* 16-Jun-23 31-May-2024* 14-Jun-2024* I LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from banks 244966.09 283850.22 273343.39 247408.55 287696.36 277132.61 b) Borrowings from banks 39769.92 163095.32 151774.70 39846.04 163135.01 151776.70 c) Other demand & time liabilities 61063.21 76511.12 75822.77 61719.33 76934.48 76088.94 

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2023 2024 Variation Jun. 23 Jun. 14 Jun. 21 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 12339 7994 4039 -3955 -8300 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

Today, the Reserve Bank held its 18th Annual Statistics Day Conference with the theme ‘RBI Statistics@90’ as a part of the ‘National Statistics Day’ celebrations in the memory of late Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, who made pioneering contributions in laying the foundations of modern day official statistics in India.

Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit for the month of May 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 registered a growth of 16.2 per cent in May 2024 as compared with 15.5 per cent a year ago.