Today, the Reserve Bank released its web publication entitled ‘Quarterly Basic Statistical Returns (BSR)-1: Outstanding Credit of Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs), December 2020’ on its Database on Indian Economy (DBIE) portal (web-link: https://dbie.rbi.org.in/DBIE/dbie.rbi?site=publications#!12). It captures various characteristics of bank credit such as occupation/activity and organisational sector of the borrower, type of account, and interest rates. Data covering 1,26,862 branches of 88 SCBs (excluding Regional Rural Banks) are presented for bank groups, population groups and states1. Highlights: -
Personal loans, which accounted for one fourth of total bank credit, continued to record double-digit growth; industrial loans remained in contraction zone. -
Among the institutional sectors, growth in credit to the household sector2 was sustained and its share in total credit increased to 52.3 per cent in December 2020 (50.3 per cent in December 2019). -
Private corporate sector recorded negative growth in bank credit (y-o-y) for the fifth successive quarter, reflecting tepid demand conditions; the share of private corporate sector in total credit declined to 28.5 per cent in December 2020 as compared with 31.4 per cent a year ago and 34.5 per cent two years ago. -
Weighted average lending rate (WALR) for outstanding credit declined by 87 basis points over the last one year, including 23 basis points easing during the latest quarter. (Yogesh Dayal)
Chief General Manager Press Release: 2020-2021/1327
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