The Reserve Bank of India hosted the Nineteenth C.D. Deshmukh Memorial Lecture on November 28, 2024 in Mumbai. The lecture was delivered by Dr. P. K. Mishra, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India. The text of his lecture “Transforming Small-holder Agriculture in India in the 21st Century: Challenges and Strategies” is placed at www.rbi.org.in.

Data on lending and deposit rates of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) (excluding regional rural banks and small finance banks) received during the month of November 2024 are set out in Tables 1 to 7. Highlights: Lending Rates: • The weighted average lending rate (WALR) on fresh rupee loans of SCBs stood at 9.54 per cent in October 2024 (9.37 per cent in September 2024).

Today, the Reserve Bank released its quarterly house price index (HPI) (base: 2010-11=100) for Q2:2024-25, based on transaction-level data received from the registration authorities in ten major cities . Time series data on all-India and city-wise HPIs are available at the Bank’s database on Indian economy (DBIE) portal (https://data.rbi.org.in/DBIE/#/dbie/home> Statistics > Real Sector > Prices & Wages).

The value of exports and imports of services during October 2024 is given in the following table. International Trade in Services (US$ million) Month Receipts (Exports) Payments (Imports) July – 2024 30,580 (16.6) 15,903 (15.7) August – 2024 30,340 (5.7) 16,423 (8.8)

Today, the Reserve Bank released data on the performance of the private corporate sector during the second quarter of 2024-25, drawn from abridged quarterly financial results of 2,911 listed non-government non-financial companies. This summary position also includes comparable data for Q2:2023-24 and Q1:2024-25 to enable study of sequential (q-o-q) and annual (y-o-y) change (web-link https://data.rbi.org.in/DBIE/#/dbie/reports/Statistics/Corporate%20Sector/Listed%20Non-Government%20Non-Financial%20Companies ).

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2023 2024 Variation Nov. 24 Nov. 15 Nov. 22 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 0 11817 0 -11817 0 4.2 State Governments 16275 28634 22714 -5920 6439 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit for the month of October 2024 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.

(Amount in ₹ Crore) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs, SFBs and PBs) ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 17-Nov-2023 01-Nov-2024* 15-Nov-2024* 17-Nov-2023 01-Nov-2024* 15-Nov-2024* I LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from banks 241123.09 289863.65 285900.51 244489.67 294354.23 291084.89** b) Borrowings from banks 187366.53 135897.86 136118.41 187461.76 136048.36 136192.88 c) Other demand & time liabilities 71762.95 24969.58 24937.38 72490.30 25304.29 25293.90

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended November 22, 2024 and Money Supply for the fortnight ended November 15, 2024.

Today, the Reserve Bank released the web publication ‘Deposits with Scheduled Commercial Banks – September 2024 ’ on its ‘Database on Indian Economy’ portal (https://data.rbi.org.in Homepage > Publications). Scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) {excluding regional rural banks (RRBs)} report branch-wise data on type of deposits (current, savings and term), its institutional sector wise ownership, age wise distribution of deposits pertaining to individuals, maturity pattern, size and interest rate range wise distribution of term deposits as well as number of employees in the quarterly ‘Basic Statistical Return’ (BSR) - 2 return. These data are released at disaggregated level (viz., population groups , bank groups, states, districts and centres).