(As on the last reporting Friday)

(Amount in Rs. crore)

Sector

March 2002@

March 2003@

March 2004@

Amount

Percentage

Amount

Percentage

Amount

Percentage

to Net bank

to Net bank

to Net bank

credit

credit

credit

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Priority Sector Advances #

25,709

40.9

36,705

44.4

52,861

47.4

Of which :

I.

Agriculture

8,022

8.5

11,873

11.2

17,652

12.3

II.

Small-scale industries

8,613

13.7

6,857

8.2

7,897

7.1

III.

Other priority sectors

9,074

14.4

17,602

22.1

25,834

23.1

@

Data are provisional.

#Inclusive of advances to setting up industrial estates, funds provided to RRBs by sponsor banks,
loan to software industries, food and agro-processing sector, self-help group and venture capital.
Note : Indirect agriculture is reckoned upto 4.5 per cent of Net Bank Credit for calculation of
percentage of Agriculture.