Appendix Table III.28: Advances to the Priority Sectors by Foreign Banks

Published on November 17, 2003


(As on the last reporting Friday)
(Amount in Rs. crore)

		March 2001		March 2002@		March 2003@
	Sector	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 #		11,572	33.5	13,414	34.0	14,848	33.9
Of which :
I.	Export Credit	6,961	20.2	6,948	18.0	8,195	18.7

II.	Small-scale industries	3,646	10.6	4,561	12.0	3,809	8.7

@ 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.