With a view to providing quicker information, the Reserve Bank of India has decided to disseminate the data relating to Reserve Money on every Wednesday and data relating to Money Supply (M3) on every alternate Wednesday, or the following working day in case of a holiday, through a press release. These data were earlier being released first through the Weekly Statistical Supplement on Friday. The data dissemination through other sources viz. Weekly Statistical Supplement, Monthly Bulletin and Real-Time Handbook of Statistics of the Indian Economy (http://dbie.rbi.org.in) would continue.

Accordingly, Reserve Money data for the week ended July 8, 2011 are presented in Statement I and Money supply data for the fortnight ended July 1, 2011 are presented in Statement II.

Ajit Prasad
Assistant General Manager

Press Release : 2011-2012/72