(Rs. crore)

Outstanding

Variation over

as on

Financial year so far

Year-on-year

2002

2003

Week

2001-2002

2002-2003

2002

2003

Item

Mar. 31

Feb. 21#

Amount

%

Amount

%

Amount

%

Amount

%

Amount

%

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

Reserve Money

3,37,970

3,51,272

–7,204

–2.0

16,939

5.6

13,301

3.9

26,774

9.1

31,022

9.7

Components (i+ii+iii)

(i)

Currency in circulation

2,50,974

2,80,064

–1,376

–0.5

29,378

13.5

29,090

11.6

31,447

14.5

32,481

13.1

(ii)

Bankers' deposits with RBI

84,147

68,040

–6,282

–8.5

–11,132

–13.7

–16,107

–19.1

–4,667

–6.2

–2,305

–3.3

(iii)

"Other" deposits with RBI

2,850

3,167

455

–1,307

318

–7

845

Sources (i+ii+iii+iv-v)

(i)

Net RBI credit to Government

1,52,178

1,01,608

–8,931

–8.1

–2,527

–1.6

–50,570

–33.2

–1,017

–0.7

–49,742

–32.9

of which : to Centre

1,41,384

95,908

–9,351

–2,479

–45,476

–2,706

–48,147

(ii)

RBI credit to banks & comm. sector

16,677

9,034

174

2.0

–6,641

–25.3

–7,643

–45.8

–4,604

–19.0

–10,577

–53.9

o/w : to banks (includes NABARD)

10,748

6,118

117

–1,190

–4,630

–1,068

–5,657

(iii)

Net foreign exchange assets of RBI

2,63,969

3,59,727

–497

–0.1

48,437

24.6

95,758

36.3

51,103

26.3

1,14,115

46.5

(iv)

Govt.'s currency liabilities to the public

6,366

6,851

—

885

485

961

613

(v)

Net non-monetary liabilities of RBI

1,01,220

1,25,948

–2,050

23,215

24,729

19,670

23,388