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Credit to agriculture & allied activities registers growth of 15.3%: RBI Report
Jan-01-2025

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its latest report ‘Sectoral Deployment of Bank Credit - November 2024’ has showed that credit to agriculture and allied activities registered a growth of 15.3 per cent (y-o-y) as on the fortnight ended November 29, 2024 (18.1 per cent for the corresponding fortnight of the previous year).

According to the report, credit growth to industry was at 8.1 per cent (y-o-y) as on the fortnight ended November 29, 2024 compared to 5.5 per cent for the corresponding fortnight of the previous year. Among major industries, credit to ‘chemicals and chemical products’, ‘infrastructure’, ‘petroleum, coal products and nuclear fuels’, and ‘all engineering’ recorded a higher growth.

RBI’s report also showed that credit growth to services sector was at 14.4 per cent (y-o-y) as on the fortnight ended November 29, 2024 (22.2 per cent for the corresponding fortnight of the previous year), primarily due to lower growth in credit to ‘non-banking financial companies’ (NBFCs) and trade segment. However, credit growth (y-o-y) to ‘commercial real estate’ and ‘computer software’ accelerated.

Besides, it said that personal loans registered 16.3 per cent growth (y-o-y) as on the fortnight ended November 29, 2024 as compared with 18.7 per cent for the corresponding fortnight of the previous year, largely due to decline in growth in ‘other personal loans’, ‘vehicle loans’ and ‘credit card outstanding’. However, ‘housing’ - the largest constituent of this segment - recorded accelerated growth (y-o-y).


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