The Handbook of Statistics on Indian States, which is being brought out by the Reserve Bank annually since 2016, provides State-wise statistics on a wide range of socio-economic indicators of the regional economy of India viz., social and demographic characteristics, state domestic product, agriculture, industry, infrastructure, banking and fiscal developments. This third edition has updates of existing data series in 129 statistical tables.

This publication is the result of committed efforts of a team consisting of Dr. P. K. Nayak, Director and Dr. Ramesh Golait, Assistant Adviser of Regional Economy Monitoring Division, supported by officers of the Department of Economic and Policy Research (DEPR) in regional offices under the overall guidance of Dr. Rajiv Ranjan, Officer-in-Charge, DEPR.

The Handbook is available on the RBI’s website (www.rbi.org.in)

Feedback /comments are solicited to help improve the content of the Handbook. Your responses may be sent to us at email.

Michael Debabrata Patra
Executive Director
May 5, 2018