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Date : Aug 30, 2017
Inflation, Money and Credit
(Per cent)
Inflation
Consumer Price Index (All India)# Rural Urban Combined
2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
General Index (All Groups) 6.2 5.6 5.0 5.5 4.1 4.0 5.8 4.9 4.5
Food and beverages 6.6 5.4 4.7 6.4 4.6 3.9 6.5 5.1 4.4
Housing 5.9 4.9 5.2 5.9 4.9 5.2
Fuel and light 5.1 6.8 4.6 2.7 2.7 1.0 4.2 5.3 3.3
Miscellaneous 4.9 4.7 5.1 4.2 2.8 3.7 4.6 3.7 4.5
Excluding Food and Fuel 5.8 5.5 5.5 5.1 3.9 4.3 5.4 4.6 4.8
Other Price Indices 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17
1. Wholesale Price Index (2011-12=100)*                  
All Commodities 8.1 3.8 9.6 8.9 7.4 5.2 1.3 -3.7 1.7
Primary Articles 11.0 12.7 17.7 9.8 9.8 9.8 2.2 -0.4 3.4
of which : Food Articles 9.1 15.3 15.6 7.3 9.9 12.3 5.6 2.6 4.0
Fuel and Power 11.6 -2.1 12.3 14.0 10.3 7.1 -6.1 -19.7 -0.3
Manufactured Products 6.2 2.2 5.7 7.3 5.4 3.0 2.6 -1.8 1.3
Non-Food Manufactured Products 5.7 0.2 6.1 7.3 4.9 2.7 2.7 -1.8 -0.1
2. CPI- Industrial Workers (IW) (2001=100) 9.1 12.4 10.4 8.4 10.4 9.7 6.3 5.6 4.1
of which : CPI- IW Food 12.3 15.2 9.9 6.3 11.9 12.3 6.5 6.1 4.4
3. CPI- Agricultural Labourers (1986-87=100) 10.2 13.9 10.0 8.2 10.0 11.6 6.6 4.4 4.2
4. CPI- Rural Labourers (1986-87=100) 10.2 13.8 10.0 8.3 10.2 11.5 6.9 4.6 4.2
Money and Credit
  2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17^
Reserve Money (RM) 6.4 17.0 19.1 3.6 6.2 14.4 11.3 13.1 -12.9
Currency in Circulation 17.0 15.7 18.8 12.4 11.6 9.2 11.3 14.9 -19.7
Bankers’ Deposits with RBI -11.3 21.0 20.2 -15.9 -10.0 34.0 8.3 7.8 8.4
Currency-GDP Ratio$ 12.3 12.3 12.2 12.2 12.0 11.6 11.6 12.2 8.8
Narrow Money (M1) 9.0 18.2 10.0 6.0 9.2 8.5 11.3 13.5 -3.4
Broad Money (M3) 19.3 16.9 16.1 13.5 13.6 13.4 10.9 10.1 7.3
Currency-Deposit Ratio 16.1 15.9 16.3 16.1 15.7 15.1 15.2 16.0 10.9
Money Multiplier 4.9 4.8 4.7 5.2 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.3 6.8
GDP/M3 **$ 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2 1.2
Scheduled Commercial Banks                  
Aggregate Deposits 19.9 17.2 15.9 13.5 14.2 14.1 10.7 9.3 11.8
Bank Credit 17.5 16.9 21.5 17.0 14.1 13.9 9.0 10.9 5.1
Non-food Credit 17.8 17.1 21.3 16.8 14.0 14.2 9.3 10.9 5.8
Credit-Deposit Ratio 72.4 72.2 75.7 78.0 77.9 77.8 76.6 77.7 72.9
Credit-GDP Ratio$ 49.3 50.1 50.6 52.8 52.9 53.4 52.5 53.0 51.9
# : Base for Consumer Price Index (All India) is 2012=100; ^ : March 31, 2017 over April 1, 2016 barring RM and its components.
… : CPI Rural for Housing is not compiled.
* : Base for WPI is 2004-05=100 for the period 2008-09 to 2012-13 and 2011-12=100 for the period 2013-14 to 2016-17. **: Ratio.
$ : GDP data from 2011-12 onwards are based on new series i.e., base: 2011-12.
Note: Data refer to y-o-y change in per cent unless specified otherwise.

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