Appendix Table III.6 Advances to Priority Sector by Private Sector Banks

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Published on November 24, 2005

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						(Amount in Rs. crore)

Sector		March 2003		March 2004		March 2005@

		Amount	Percentage	Amount	Percentage	Amount	Percentage
			to net		to net		to net
			bank credit		bank credit		bank credit

1		2	3	4	5	6	7

Priority Sector Advances		36,648	44.1	48,920	47.3	69,384	43.3
of which :

I.	Agriculture	9,924	12.0	14,730	14.2	21,475	12.1

II.	Small-scale industries	8,051	9.7	7,590	7.3	8,668	5.4

III.	Other priority sectors	18,673	22.5	26,600	25.7	39,241	24.5

@ : Data are provisional. Note: Indirect agriculture is reckoned up to 4.5 per cent of Net Bank Credit for calculation of percentage of agriculture.