Today, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released the Report titled “State Finances: A Study of Budgets of 2023-24”, an annual publication that provides information, analysis and an assessment of the finances of State governments for 2023-24 against the backdrop of actual and revised/provisional accounts for 2021-22 and 2022-23, respectively. The theme of this year’s Report is “Revenue Dynamics and Fiscal Capacity of Indian States”.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has noticed certain misleading advertisements enticing borrowers by offering loan waivers. These entities seem to be actively promoting many such campaigns in the print media as well as social media platforms. There are reports of such entities charging a service/legal fee for issuing ‘debt waiver certificates’ without any authority. It has also come to our notice that in certain locations, campaigns are being run by a few persons, which undermine the efforts of Banks in enforcing their rights over the securities charged to the Banks. Such entities are misrepresenting that dues to financial institutions including banks need not be repaid. Such activities undermine the stability of financial institutions and, above all, the interest of the depositors. It may also be noted that associating with such entities can result in direct financial losses.

The Reserve Bank of India today released on its website the results of the following Surveys: i) Consumer Confidence Survey (CCS) – November 2023 ii) Inflation Expectations Survey of Households (IESH) – November 2023 iii) Survey of Professional Forecasters on Macroeconomic Indicators–  Round  85rd The Survey results are based on the feedback received from the respondents to the Surveys and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Reserve Bank of India. 

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended December 01, 2023.

The Reserve Bank of India has today released the data on External Commercial Borrowings (ECB), Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds (FCCB) and Rupee Denominated Bonds (RDB) both, through Automatic Route and Approval Route, for the month of October 2023. Ajit Prasad Director (Communications) Press Release: 2023-2024/1410

Today, the Reserve Bank released the web publication ‘Deposits with Scheduled Commercial Banks – September 2023’ on its Database on Indian Economy (DBIE) portal3 (web-link: - https://dbieold.rbi.org.in/DBIE/dbie.rbi?site=BsrPublications#!21).  Scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) {excluding regional rural banks (RRBs)} report branch-wise data on type of deposits (current, savings and term), its institutional sector wise ownership, age wise distribution of deposits pertaining to individuals, maturity pattern of term deposits as well as number of bank employees in the quarterly Basic Statistical Return (BSR) – 2 to the Reserve Bank. These data are disseminated at disaggregated level (viz., type of deposits, population groups, bank groups, states, districts, centres, interest rate ranges, size and original as well as residual maturity).

Today, the Reserve Bank released its web publication entitled ‘Quarterly Basic Statistical Returns (BSR)-1: Outstanding Credit of Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) - September 2023’ on its Database on Indian Economy (DBIE) portal1 (web-link: https://dbieold.rbi.org.in/DBIE/dbie.rbi?site=BsrPublications#!12). It captures various characteristics of bank credit such as occupation/activity and organisational sector of the borrower, type of account and interest rates based on account-level reporting2. Data reported by 90 SCBs (excluding Regional Rural Banks) are presented for bank groups, population groups and states3.

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets* (₹ Crore) Item    2022    2023    Variation Nov. 25    Nov. 17    Nov. 24    Week    Year 1    2    3    4    5 4 Loans and Advances         4.1 Central Government    0    0    0    0    0 4.2 State Governments    2944    17338    16275    -1062    13331 * Data are provisional; difference, if any, is due to rounding off.

The value of exports and imports of services during October 2023 is given in the following table.  International Trade in Services (US$ Million) Month    Receipts (Exports)    Payments (Imports) July – 2023    26,228 (8.1)    13,754 (-2.2) August – 2023    28,719 (8.4)    15,103

(Amount in ₹ crore) SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANKS (Including RRBs, SFBs and PBs)    ALL SCHEDULED BANKS 18-Nov-22 03-NOV-2023* 17-NOV-2023* 18-Nov-22    03-NOV-2023* 17-NOV-2023* I LIABILITIES TO THE BKG.SYSTEM (A) a) Demand & Time deposits from banks 197683.51 242686.81 241123.31 200234.72 246100.18 244489.89 **  b) Borrowings from banks 59717.51 195603.02 186866.5 59825.5 195669.28 186961.73 c) Other demand & time liabilities 52717.05 72833.37 72004.03 53280.8    73572.49 72619.52