Today, the Reserve Bank released its annual publication titled “Handbook of Statistics on the Indian Economy, 2022-23” (HBS). This publication, the 25th in the series, disseminates time series data on major economic and financial indicators relating to the Indian economy.

The current volume contains 240 statistical tables covering macroeconomic and financial variable pertaining to national income aggregates, output, prices, money, banking, financial markets, public finances, foreign trade and balance of payments as well as select socio-economic indicators. Longer time-series on these variables are also available on the Reserve Bank’s next generation Data Warehouse ‘Centralised

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 August 2023.

Ajit Prasad           
Director (Communications)

Press Release: 2023-2024/918

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended September 08, 2023. Ajit Prasad Director (Communications) Press Release: 2023-2024/914

Today, the Reserve Bank released the provisional results of the 2022-231 round of the annual census on foreign liabilities and assets (FLA) covering cross-border liabilities and assets of the entities (viz., companies, limited liability partnerships (LLPs), alternative investment funds (AIFs) and partnership firms) with inward/outward direct investment (DI).

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item20222023Variation Sep. 2Aug. 25Sep. 1WeekYear 12345 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government00000 4.2 State Governments87761647022904643414128 * Data are provisional.2. Foreign Exchange Reserves*

(Amount in ₹ crore) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs, SFBs and PBs) ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 26-Aug-22    11-AUG-2023*25-AUG-2023* 26-Aug-22    11-AUG-2023* 25-AUG-2023* I LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from bks.188767.08254229.15246284.1 191920.01    256429.72    248463.22 ** b) Borrowings from banks 44956.33190016.47199019.52 45029.33    190103.15    199143.64 c) Other demand & time liabilities

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended September 01, 2023 and Money Supply for the fortnight ended August 25, 2023. Ajit Prasad Director (Communications) Press Release: 2023-2024/873

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item    2022    2023    Variation Aug. 26    Aug. 18 Aug. 25 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments    4811 15343 16470 1127 1659  Data are provisional.
 

The Reserve Bank of India has been regularly conducting Inflation Expectations Survey of Households (IESH). The September 2023 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 agency, M/s Hansa Research Group Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai has been engaged to conduct the survey of this round on behalf of the Reserve Bank of India. For this purpose, the selected households will be approached by the agency and they are requested to provide their response. Other individuals, who are not approached by the agency can also participate in this survey by providing their responses using the linked survey schedule. The filled in survey schedule may be e-mailed as per contact details given below. In case of any query/clarification, kindly contact at the following address:

The Director,
Division of Household Surveys,
Department of Statistics and Information Management,
Reserve Bank of India,
C-8, 2nd Floor,
Bandra-Kurla Complex, Bandra (East),
Mumbai-400051;
Phone: 022-2657 8398, 022-2657 8520;
Please click here to send email.

Ajit Prasad            
Director (Communications)

Press Release: 2023-2024/855

The Reserve Bank of India has been regularly conducting Consumer Confidence Survey (CCS). The September 2023 round of the survey is being launched. The survey seeks qualitative responses from households, regarding their sentiments on general economic situation, employment scenario, price level, households’ income and spending. The survey is conducted regularly in 19 cities, viz., Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jammu, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi and Thiruvananthapuram. The results of this survey provide useful inputs for monetary policy.

The agency, M/s Hansa Research Group Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai has been engaged to conduct the survey of this round on behalf of the Reserve Bank of India. For this purpose, the selected households will be approached by the agency and they are requested to provide their responses. Other individuals, who are not approached by the agency, can also participate in this survey by providing their responses using the linked survey schedule. The filled in survey schedule may be e-mailed as per the contact details given below. In case of any query/clarification, kindly contact at the following address:

The Director,
Division of Household Surveys,
Department of Statistics and Information Management,
Reserve Bank of India,
C-8, 2nd Floor,
Bandra-Kurla Complex, Bandra (East),
Mumbai-400051;
Phone: 022-2657 8398, 022-2657 8332;
Please click here to send email.

The value of exports and imports of services during July 2023 is given in the following table. International Trade in Services (US$ Million) MonthReceipts (Exports)Payments (Imports) April – 2023 25, 842 (7.5) 13, 626 (-3.1) May – 2023 27, 060
(7.7)15, 502 (2.0) June – 202327,861 (3.5) 15, 236
(-3.4) July – 2023 26, 228
(8.1)13, 754 (-2.2) Notes: (i) Data are provisional; and (ii) Figures in brackets are growth rates over the corresponding month of the previous year which have been revised on the basis of balance of payments statistics.