(Rs. crore)

Outstanding

Variation over

as on

Financial year so far

Year-on-year

2002

2003

Week

2001-2002

2002-2003

2002

2003

Item

Mar. 31

Feb. 28#

Amount

%

Amount

%

Amount

%

Amount

%

Amount

%

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

Reserve Money

3,37,970

3,56,740

5,468

1.6

20,048

6.6

18,769

5.6

29,307

10.0

33,380

10.3

Components (i+ii+iii)

(i)

Currency in circulation

2,50,974

2,78,686

–1,378

–0.5

29,004

13.3

27,712

11.0

30,341

14.0

31,477

12.7

(ii)

Bankers' deposits with RBI

84,147

75,467

7,427

10.9

–7,834

–9.6

–8,680

–10.3

–1,322

–1.8

1,824

2.5

(iii)

"Other" deposits with RBI

2,850

2,587

–580

–1,122

–262

288

80

Sources (i+ii+iii+iv-v)

(i)

Net RBI credit to Government

1,52,178

1,17,402

15,794

15.5

–3,281

–2.1

–34,776

–22.9

–998

–0.7

–33,194

–22.0

of which : to Centre

1,41,384

1,13,829

17,921

–3,158

–27,555

–690

–29,547

(ii)

RBI credit to banks & comm. sector

16,677

11,299

2,265

25.1

–4,413

–16.8

–5,378

–32.2

–3,254

–13.0

–10,539

–48.3

o/w : to banks (includes NABARD)

10,748

7,320

1,201

–981

–3,429

–1,821

–4,664

(iii)

Net foreign exchange assets of RBI

2,63,969

3,47,369

–12,358

–3.4

50,155

25.4

83,400

31.6

51,855

26.5

1,00,039

40.4

(iv)

Govt.'s currency liabilities to the public

6,366

6,851

—

885

485

961

613

(v)

Net non-monetary liabilities of RBI

1,01,220

1,26,182

233

23,298

24,962

19,257

23,538