Today, the Reserve Bank of India released the ninth edition of its statistical publication titled “Handbook of Statistics on Indian States, 2023-24”. Through this publication, the Reserve Bank has been disseminating wide-ranging data on the regional economies of India.

The Reserve Bank of India today released on its website the results of the following Surveys: i) Consumer Confidence Survey (CCS) – November 2024 ii) Inflation Expectations Survey of Households (IESH) – November 2024 iii) Survey of Professional Forecasters on Macroeconomic Indicators –Round 91st The Survey results are based on the feedback received from the respondents to the Surveys and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Reserve Bank of India.

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item 2023 2024 Variation Dec. 1 Nov. 22 Nov. 29 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and Advances 4.1 Central Government 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 State Governments 21748 22714 16465 -6249 -5283 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended November 29, 2024.

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.