Today, the Reserve Bank released the February 2025 issue of its monthly Bulletin. The Bulletin includes bi-monthly monetary policy statement (February 07, 2025), one speech, four articles and current statistics. The four articles are: I. State of the Economy; II. Union Budget 2025-26: An Assessment; III. Quality of Public Expenditure and its Socio-economic Impact in India; and IV. Dynamics of Agriculture Supply Chain: Insights from Pan India Survey during Rabi Marketing Season.

Today, the Reserve Bank of India launched RBIDATA, a Mobile App, that offers macroeconomic and financial statistics relating to the Indian economy in a user-friendly and visually engaging format.

As announced vide the Press Release 2024-2025/1933 dated January 15, 2025 , the Reserve Bank will be conducting daily Variable Rate Repo (VRR) auctions on all working days in Mumbai with reversal taking place on the next working day, until further notice.

The result of the auction of State Government Securities held on February 18, 2025, is as under: (Amount in ₹ Crore) ASSAM 2035 BIHAR 2037 BIHAR 2045 GUJARAT 2031 Notified Amount 900 1000 1000 500 Tenure 10 12 20 6 Competitive Bids Received (i) No. 31 38 34 34 (ii) Amount 2261 3650 3180 3165 Cut off Price (₹)/ Yield (%) 7.15 7.15 7.18 7.02 Competitive Bids Accepted (i) No. 16 14 13 8 (ii) Amount 884.992 976.939 989.955 493.963

Sr. No State/UT Amount to be raised (₹ Crore) Amount Accepted (₹ Crore) Cut off Price (₹)/ Yield (%) Tenure (Year) 1. Assam 900 900 7.15 10 2. Bihar 1000 1000 7.15 12 1000 1000 7.18 20 3. Gujarat 500 500 7.02 6 1500 1500 7.08 8

Tenor 2-day Notified Amount (in ₹ crore) 1,00,000 Total amount of bids received (in ₹ crore) 71,773 Amount allotted (in ₹ crore) 71,773 Cut off Rate (%) 6.26 Weighted Average Rate (%) 6.26 Partial Allotment Percentage of bids received at cut off rate (%) N.A.

(Amount in ₹ Crore, Rate in Per cent) MONEY MARKETS@ Volume (One Leg) Weighted Average Rate Range A. Overnight Segment (I+II+III+IV) 6,02,266.22 6.21 5.00-6.65 I. Call Money 13,904.85 6.34 5.15-6.65 II. Triparty Repo 4,25,598.80 6.16 5.72-6.31 III. Market Repo 1,60,868.37 6.32 5.00-6.55 IV. Repo in Corporate Bond 1,894.20 6.52 6.50-6.57 B. Term Segment I. Notice Money** 309.00 6.24 5.80-6.40 II. Term Money@@ 354.00 - 6.45-7.25 III. Triparty Repo 675.00 6.30 6.27-6.40 IV. Market Repo 841.07 6.13 6.00-6.55 V. Repo in Corporate Bond 0.00 - -

The Reserve Bank of India (RBl) has, by an order dated February 13, 2025, imposed a monetary penalty of ₹1.10 lakh (Rupees One Lakh Ten Thousand only) on Shree Balaji Urban Co-operative Bank Ltd., Satna, Madhya Pradesh (the bank), for non-compliance with certain directions issued by RBI on ‘Priority Sector Lending (PSL) - Targets and Classification’ and specific directions issued by RBI on making contribution to Micro and Small Enterprises (MSE) Refinance Fund due to shortfall in achievement of PSL. This penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers conferred on RBI under the provisions of Section 47A(1)(c) read with Sections 46(4)(i) and 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBl) has, by an order dated February 13, 2025, imposed a monetary penalty of ₹4.20 lakh (Rupees Four Lakh Twenty Thousand only), on Laxmibai Mahila Nagrik Sahakari Bank Maryadit, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, (the bank), for non-compliance with certain directions issued by RBI on ‘Loans and advances to directors, their relatives, and firms/ concerns in which they are interested’, and ‘Priority Sector Landing (PSL) - Targets and classification’, and specific directions issued by RBI on making contribution to Micro and Small Enterprises (MSE) Refinance Fund due to shortfall in achievement of PSL. This penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers conferred on RBI under the provisions of Section 47A(1)(c) read with Sections 46(4)(i) and 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBl) has, by an order dated February 13, 2025, imposed a monetary penalty of ₹25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand only) on The Dhule and Nandurbar District Central Co-operative Bank Ltd., Dhule, Maharashtra (the bank) for non-compliance with certain directions issued by RBI on ‘Membership of Credit Information Companies (CICs) by Co-operative Banks’. This penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers conferred on RBI under the provisions of Section 25 of the Credit Information Companies (Regulation) Act, 2005.