Data for the month of June 2013 on sectoral deployment of credit collected from select 47 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.  These data are also available in the Real-Time Handbook of Statistics on the Indian Economy (http://dbie.rbi.org.in).

Highlights:

• On a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, non-food bank credit increased by 13.4 per cent in   June 2013 as compared with the increase of 18.2 per cent in June 2012.

• Credit to agriculture increased by 9.9 per cent in June 2013, as compared with the increase of 15.5 per cent in June 2012.

• Credit to industry increased by 14.1 per cent in June 2013 as compared with the increase of 20.7 per cent in June 2012. Deceleration in credit growth to industry was observed in all the major sub-sectors, barring food processing, textiles, leather & leather products, cement & cement products and infrastructure.

• Credit to the services sector increased by 12.1 per cent in June 2013 as compared with the increase of 18.6 per cent in June 2012.

• Credit to NBFCs increased by 1.9 per cent in June 2013 as compared with the increase of 43.9 per cent in June 2012.

• Personal loans increased by 15.6 per cent in June 2013 as compared with the increase of 13.9 per cent in June 2012.

Ajit Prasad
Assistant General Manager

Press Release : 2013-2014/200