Commercial credit offtake from banks reduces to 19.6% in June

30 Jul 2011 Evaluate

The aggressive monetary policy standing adopted by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has adversely affected the credit demand from the industrial and agriculture sector in June. The credit demand from Industry (Micro & Small, Medium and Large) reduced to 22% from 29.2% on June 2011 from last year and for agriculture and allied activities it reduced to 12.8% from 21.7% on June 2011 from last year. Overall the non food credit moderated to 19.6% in June from 20.2% in the same month of last year.

The RBI on June 29, released data on the sectoral deployment of credit for month of June. “Credit to industry increased by 22.0% (y-o-y) in June 2011 as compared with 29.2% in the previous year, led by infrastructure, metals and metal products, engineering, food processing, mining and quarrying and rubber, plastic and their products, RBI said.

However, credit demand from service sector increased by 20.9% in June from 16.2% in last year.  Credit growth at NBFCs registered robust growth in June, it increased to 44.5% in June 2011 from 25% in June 2010. The credit deployment to commercial real estate (CRE) sector also saw significant growth of 23.2% in June from just 4.5% in the corresponding period of last year.  

“On a y-o-y basis, personal loans increased by 17.3% in June 2011, significantly up from the growth of 6.6% during the corresponding period of the previous year. Most of the components of personal loans such as housing, advances against fixed deposits, advances to individuals against shares, bonds, etc., vehicle loans and consumer durables registered accelerated growth RBI added in its statement.

However, the gross bank credit, which contains food credit, saw a huge jump in demand for credit during June 2011. Food credit grew by almost 39.7% in June 2010. The food credit for the month of June 2010 saw a negative growth of 7.9. During month of June 2011, food credit stood at Rs 76,579 crore from Rs 54,811 crore in June 2010.

The moderation in credit deployment from banks is viewed as the RBI’s monetary policy standing on stubbornly high inflation. Since March 2010, the central bank has increased its key policy rates by 11 times in raw, and earlier in this week it increased it short term lending and borrowing rates by 50 basis points each. However, headline inflation has been hovering near the double digit number from last few months, which indicates that the RBI has failed to control inflation.  

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