It has been decided, in consultation with the Government of India, that the limit for Ways and Means Advances (WMA) for the first half of the financial year 2025-26 (April to September 2025) will be ₹1,50,000 crore.

The Reserve Bank of India, in consultation with the Government of India, hereby, notifies the calendar for issuance of Treasury Bills for the quarter ending June 2025 as under:

In order to enable institutional and retail investors to plan their investments efficiently and to provide transparency and stability to the Government Securities Market, the Reserve Bank of India, in consultation with the Government of India, hereby, notifies the indicative calendar for issuance of Government dated securities, including Sovereign Green Bonds (SGrBs), for the first half of the fiscal year 2025-26 (April 01, 2025 to September 30, 2025). The issuance calendar is as under:

The Reserve Bank of India (RBl) has, by an order dated March 25, 2025, imposed a monetary penalty of ₹0.75 lakh (Rupees Seventy Five Thousand only) on The Jalna People’s Cooperative Bank Ltd., Jalna, Maharashtra (the bank) for non-compliance with the RBI Directions on ‘Gold Loan – Bullet Repayment – Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks (UCBs)’. This penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers conferred on RBI under the provisions of Section 47A(1)(c) read with Sections 46(4)(i) and 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has, by an order dated March 13, 2025, imposed a monetary penalty of ₹2.70 lakh (Rupees Two Lakh Seventy Thousand only) on The Co-operative Urban Bank Ltd., Paralakhemundi, Odisha (the bank) for non-compliance with the certain directions issued by RBI on ‘Exposure Norms and Statutory / Other Restrictions- UCBs’ and ‘Membership

Data on lending and deposit rates of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) (excluding regional rural banks and small finance banks) received during the month of March 2025 are set out in Tables 1 to 7.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has, by an order dated March 25, 2025, imposed a monetary penalty of ₹15.00 lakh (Rupees Fifteen Lakh only) on NKGSB Co-operative Bank Limited, Mumbai (the bank), for non-compliance with certain directions issued by RBI on ‘Management of Advances - UCBs’. This penalty has been imposed in exercise of powers conferred on RBI under the provisions of Section 47A(1)(c) read with Sections 46(4)(i) and 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.  

As announced vide the Press Release 2024-2025/1933 dated January 15, 2025 , the Reserve Bank will be conducting daily Variable Rate Repo (VRR) auctions on all working days in Mumbai with reversal taking place on the next working day, until further notice.

Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit for the month of February 2025 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. On a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, non-food bank credit as on the fortnight ended February 21, 2025 grew at 12.0 per cent as compared to 16.6 per cent for the corresponding fortnight of the previous year (February 23, 2024).

Tenor 1-day Notified Amount (in ₹ crore) 75,000 Total amount of bids received (in ₹ crore) 21,392 Amount allotted (in ₹ crore) 21,392 Cut off Rate (%) 6.26 Weighted Average Rate (%) 6.26 Partial Allotment Percentage of bids received at cut off rate (%) NA