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Today, the Reserve Bank released its annual publication titled “Handbook of Statistics on the Indian Economy, 2022-23” (HBS). This publication, the 25th in the series, disseminates time series data on major economic and financial indicators relating to the Indian economy.

The current volume contains 240 statistical tables covering macroeconomic and financial variable pertaining to national income aggregates, output, prices, money, banking, financial markets, public finances, foreign trade and balance of payments as well as select socio-economic indicators. Longer time-series on these variables are also available on the Reserve Bank’s next generation Data Warehouse ‘Centralised

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed, by an order dated August 22, 2023, a monetary penalty of ₹2.00 lakh (Rupees Two Lakh only) on The Baramati Sahakari Bank Ltd., Baramati, Pune, Maharashtra (the bank) for non-compliance with the directions issued by RBI on ‘Maintenance of Deposit Accounts - Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks.’ This penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers vested in RBI under the provisions of Section 47 A (1) (c) read with Sections 46 (4) (i) and 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.

The Reserve Bank of India announced today the list of NBFCs in the Upper Layer under Scale Based Regulation for NBFCs for the year 2023-24.

2. The Reserve Bank had issued the Scale Based Regulation (SBR): A Revised Regulatory Framework for NBFCs (the framework) on October 22, 2021. The framework categorises NBFCs in Base Layer (NBFC-BL), Middle Layer (NBFC-ML), Upper Layer (NBFC-UL) and Top Layer (NBFC-T

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed, by an order dated August 22, 2023, a monetary penalty of ₹2.00 lakh (Rupees Two Lakh only) on The Becharaji Nagarik Sahakari Bank Ltd., Dist. Mehsana, Gujarat (the bank) for non-compliance with the directions issued by RBI on ‘Placement of Deposits with Other Banks by Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks (UCBs)’. This penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers vested in the RBI under the provisions of Section 47 A (1) (c) read with Sections 46 (4) (i) and 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed, by an Order dated August 22, 2023, a monetary penalty of ₹5.00 lakh (Rupees Five Lakh only) on The Waghodia Urban Co-operative Bank Ltd., Dist. Vadodara, Gujarat (the bank) for non-compliance with the directions issued by RBI on ‘Loans and advances to directors, relatives and firms/concerns in which they are interested’ read with ‘Loans and advances to directors etc. – directors as surety / guarantors – clarification’; ‘Placement of Deposits with Other Banks by Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks (UCBs)’ and ‘Reserve Bank of India (Co-operative Banks - Interest Rate on Deposits) Directions, 2016’. This penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers vested in the RBI under the provisions of Section 47 A (1) (c) read with Sections 46 (4) (i) and Section 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed, by an Order dated August 22, 2023, a monetary penalty of ₹5.00 Lakh (Rupees Five Lakh only) on The Viramgam Mercantile Co-operative Bank Ltd., Viramgam, Dist. Ahmedabad, Gujarat (the bank) for non-compliance with the directions issued by RBI on ‘Loans and Advances to directors etc. – directors as surety/guarantors – Clarification’, ‘Placement of Deposits with Other Banks by Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks (UCBs)’ and specific directions issued by RBI under the Supervisory Action Framework (SAF). This penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers vested in the RBI under the provisions of Section 47 A (1) (c) read with Sections 46 (4) (i) and 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.

(Amount in ₹ crore, Rate in Per cent) MONEY MARKETS@ Volume (One Leg)Weighted Average RateRangeA. Overnight Segment(I+II+III+IV)538,262.186.760.01-7.85 I. Call Money9,402.466.745.00-6.85 II. Triparty Repo389,354.556.756.70-6.76 III. Market Repo139,480.176.780.01-7.00 IV. Repo in Corporate Bond25.007.857.85-7.85
B. Term Segment

The Reserve Bank of India has today released the data on Overseas Direct Investment, both under Automatic Route and the Approval Route, for the month of August 2023.

Ajit Prasad           
Director (Communications)

Press Release: 2023-2024/918

Reserve Bank of India has been, from time to time, taking various measures to spread financial literacy among different sections of population. As a unique initiative targeted at children, RBI conducted an All-India Quiz on Financial Literacy for students of classes VIII, IX and X of government and municipal schools across the country. The multi-level quiz was initiated at the block levels in all States and Union Territories. The winning teams competed at district and State levels and winners of the State level competitions participated in six zonal rounds held at Chandigarh, Hyderabad, New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Guwahati on different dates.