Today, the Reserve Bank released the May 2024 issue of its monthly Bulletin. The Bulletin includes three speeches, four articles, and current statistics. The four articles are: I. State of the Economy; II. Decentralised Finance: Implications for Financial System; III. Currency Swaps of the Reserve Bank of India: Role in the GFSN and Fostering International Financial Cooperation; IV. Consumer Confidence in India: A Regional Perspective.

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item    2023    2024    Variation May 12    May 3    May 10    Week    Year 1    2    3    4    5 4 Loans and Advances    4.1 Central Government    0    0    0    0    0 4.2 State Governments    12451    19755    11584    -8170    -866 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off. 

(Amount in ₹ crore) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs,SFBs and PBs)    ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 5-May-23    19-APR-2024 *    03-MAY-2024 *    5-May-23    19-APR-2024 *    03-MAY-2024 * I    LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A)    a) Demand & Time deposits from banks    243113.97    292789.19    291062.05    245662.62    297191.96    292738.77 ** b) Borrowings from banks    37219.65    172085.68    168949.53    37411.07    172085.68    171440.46 c) Other demand & time liabilities    59771.4    74776.64    76698.85    60435.9    75015.18    76967.9 

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended May 10, 2024 and Money Supply for the fortnight ended May 03, 2024. Ajit Prasad Deputy General Manager (Communications)

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2023 2024 Variation May 5 Apr. 26 May 3 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 15455 13284 19755 6470 4300 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended May 03, 2024. Ajit Prasad Deputy General Manager (Communications) Press Release: 2024-2025/267

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 April 2024.

 Today the Reserve Bank of India placed on its website a Working Paper titled “Assessing the Impact of Macroprudential Policies on Housing Credit Dynamics: Evidence from India” under the Reserve Bank of India Working Paper Series[1]. The Paper is co-authored by Amar Nath Yadav, Vivek Kumar, Alok Kumar Chakrawal and Jyoti Kumari.

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2023 2024 Variation Apr. 28 Apr. 19 Apr. 26 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 4666 0 0 0 -4666 4.2 State Governments 4538 17496 13284

(Amount in ₹ crore) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs,SFBs and PBs) ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 21-Apr-23    05-APR-2024 *    19-APR-2024 *    21-Apr-23    05-APR-2024 *    19-APR-2024 * I LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from banks 241922.43    311538.6    293086.88    244380.07    315742.8    297489.65 ** b) Borrowings from banks 37729.21    176273.74    173959.07    38061.24    176613.81    173959.07 c) Other demand & time liabilities 58481.58    73116.45    74785.14    59135.51    73356.22    75023.68 

The value of exports and imports of services during March 2024 is given in the following table. International Trade in Services (US$ million) Month Receipts (Exports) Payments (Imports) January – 2024 31,023 (10.8) 14,850 (0.2) February – 2024 28,348 (3.5) 15,240 (1.8) March – 2024 30,028 (-1.3) 16,608 (-2.1) 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.

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended April 26, 2024 and Money Supply for the fortnight ended April 19, 2024.

Data on lending and deposit rates of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) (excluding regional rural banks and small finance banks) received during the month of April 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 October-December of 2023-24.

Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit for the month of March 2024[1] 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[2] registered a growth of 16.3 per cent in March 2024[3] as compared with 15.4 per cent a year ago. Highlights of the sectoral deployment of bank credit3 are given below: Credit growth to agriculture and allied activities was robust at 20.1 per cent (y-o-y) in March 2024 (15.4 per cent a year ago). Credit to industry grew by 8.5 per cent (y-o-y) in March 2024 as compared with 5.6 per cent in March 2023. Among major industries, growth in credit (y-o-y) to ‘chemicals & chemical products’, ‘food processing’, and ‘infrastructure’ accelerated in March 2024 as compared with the corresponding month of the previous year, while that to ‘basic metal & metal products’ moderated. Credit growth to services sector improved to 20.2 per cent (y-o-y) in March 2024 (from 19.6 per cent a year ago), with higher growth in credit to ‘transport operators’ and ‘commercial real estate’. Credit growth to ‘non-banking financial companies (NBFCs)’ and ‘trade’, however, decelerated in March 2024 as compared with March 2023.

The Reserve Bank of India has been regularly conducting Inflation Expectations Survey of Households (IESH). The May 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 survey seeks qualitative responses from households on price changes (general prices as well as prices of specific product groups) in the three months ahead as well as in the one year ahead period and quantitative responses on current, three months ahead and one year ahead inflation rates. The results of this survey provide useful inputs for monetary policy.

The Reserve Bank of India has been regularly conducting Consumer Confidence Survey (CCS). The May 2024 round of the survey is being launched.

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2023 2024 Variation Apr. 21 Apr.12 Apr. 19 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 3145 0 0 0 -3145 4.2 State Governments 3146 12921 17496 4575 14350 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

Today the Reserve Bank of India placed on its website a Working Paper titled, “Equity Markets and Monetary Policy Surprises” under the Reserve Bank of India Working Paper Series . The paper is co-authored by Mayank Gupta, Amit Pawar, Satyam Kumar, Abhinandan Borad and Subrat Kumar Seet.  

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended April 19, 2024. Ajit Prasad Press Release: 2024-2025/173 Deputy General Manager (Communications)