Reserve Bank of India

The Reserve Bank of India was established on April 1, 1935 in accordance with the provisions of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934. Though originally privately owned, since nationalization in 1949, the Reserve Bank is fully owned by the Government of India. The Preamble of the Reserve Bank of India describes the basic functions of the Reserve Bank as: "to regulate the issue of Bank notes and keeping of reserves with a view to securing monetary stability in India and generally to operate the currency and credit system of the country to its advantage; to have a modern monetary policy framework to meet the challenge of an increasingly complex economy, to maintain price stability while keeping in mind the objective of growth."

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    • मार्च 2024
      Source: Reserve Bank of India
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      Accessed On: 29 मार्च, 2024
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      Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit collected from select 41 scheduled commercial banks, accounting for about 90 per cent of the total non-food credit deployed by all scheduled commercial banks
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    • अप्रैल 2024
      Source: Reserve Bank of India
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      Accessed On: 24 अप्रैल, 2024
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      All Scheduled Commercial Banks - Business in India (Fortnightly Data) Weekly data is considered as daily in dataset
    • अप्रैल 2024
      Source: Reserve Bank of India
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      Accessed On: 22 अप्रैल, 2024
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       Note: FY20-21 has been considered as 2020.Data include the impact of merger on May 3, 2002.Excluding the impact of conversion of a non-banking entity into a banking entity on October 11, 2004, data on "Net Bank Credit to Government" and "Bank Credit to Commercial Sector" for the year 2004-05 worked out to Rupees 740243 Crore and Rupees 1243030 Crore, respectively.