Today, the Reserve Bank of India released the third edition of its statistical publication titled “Handbook of Statistics on Indian States 2017-18”. Through this publication, the Reserve Bank has been disseminating wide-ranging data on the regional economy of India.

This publication follows the ‘one indicator-one table’ approach in 129 tables it covers sub-national statistics on socio-demographics, state domestic product, agriculture, industry, infrastructure, banking and fiscal indicators across Indian States over a time period ranging from 1951 to 2017-18. The Handbook has been updated based on latest available data, sourced from the respective authorities.

The electronic form of the Handbook can also accessed on www.rbi.org.in.

Comments and suggestions on the Handbook are welcome and may please be sent to the Director, Regional Economy Monitoring Division, Department of Economic and Policy Research, Reserve bank of India, 7th Floor, Central Office Building, Mumbai 400 001 or please click here to send email.

Ajit Prasad
Assistant Adviser

Press Release : 2017-2018/2914