(Amount in Rs. crore)

Sector

March 2005

March 2006

March 2007@

Amount

Percentage to net bank credit

Amount

Percentage to net bank credit

Amount

Percentage to net bank credit

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Priority Sector Advances #

69,886

43.6

1,06,586

42.8

1,43,768

42.7

of which:

I.

Agriculture

21,636

13.5

36,712

13.6

52,056

12.8

II.

Small-scale industries

8,592

5.4

10,421

4.2

13,063

3.9

III.

Other priority sectors

38,797

24.2

57,777

23.2

76,925

22.9

@ : Data are provisional.
# : Inclusive of advances to setting up industrial estates, loans to small road and water transport operators, housing loans, education
loans, loans to software industries, food and agro-processing sector, self-help groups, venture capital, etc.
Note : Indirect agriculture is reckoned upto 4.5 per cent of net bank credit for calculation of percentage of agriculture.