India’s Key Economic Indicators

A brilliant summation of economic indicators: http://eaindustry.nic.in/Key_Economic_Indicators/Key_Economic_Indicators.pdf

The indicators included are:

• Agricultural – Foodgrain Production
• Employment & Unemployment Indicators
• Performance of Core industries
• Performance of Index of Industrial Production
• Wholesale price index and inflation
• Food and non-food credit of scheduled commercial banks
• Sectoral deployment of bank credit
• World commodity prices

Quarterly Statistics on Scheduled Commercial Banks

RBI’s Quarterly Statistics on Deposits & Credit of Scheduled Commercial Banks. Link

Data in xls format

Banker to India’s growth

Amol Agrawal has written a nice piece on How is India financing its growth?

A recommended read.

Basic Statistics of Banks in India

RBI has released its annual document named Basic Statistical Returns of Scheduled Commercial Banks in India Volume-38 for March 2009 on 20 Aug 2010. It is a pool of information on the banking industry!

Credit offtake indeed gets a 3G push

According to the latest RBI data, loans extended by banks to individuals and businesses — non-food credit — rose by Rs 55,150 crore to Rs 32,35,925 crore during the fortnight ended June 4, 2010, over the May 21 levels. This is 19.9% higher than the year-ago level. At the same time, food credit — loans for food procurement—dipped 11.8%. Total bank credit, including food and non-food credit, rose Rs 57,896 crore during the fortnight to touch Rs 32,88,074 crore as on June 4.

Increase in lending was in line with our expectations.