After a long gap, bank’s credit has registered a double digit growth of 10.65 percent to Rs 80.96 lakh crore as on December 22, 2017, mainly because of the base effect. According to the RBI data, advances had stood at Rs 73.17 lakh crore in the year-ago period. In the recently released financial stability report, RBI has indicated that credit growth of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs), on a Y-o-Y basis, surged to 6.2 percent from 4.4 percent between March and September 2017.
The data further highlighted that the public sector banks’ (PSBs) credit growth increased from 0.7 percent to 2.2 percent during the same period reversing the declining trend observed during past two years. It showed that in the previous fortnight, the banks' advances had grown by 9.77 percent to Rs 80.26 lakh crore from Rs 73.12 lakh crore in the year ago period. Besides, in the reporting fortnight, banks' deposits had risen by 3.96 percent to Rs 108.85 lakh crore as against Rs 104.69 lakh crore in the period ended December 23, 2016.
As per the report, deposits in the previous fortnight ended December 8, 2017 had grown by 3.32 percent to Rs 109.01 lakh crore as against Rs 105.50 lakh crore in the period ended December 9, 2016. It also pointed that the FSR had said deposit growth of scheduled commercial banks, on a Y-o-Y basis, decelerated from 11.1 per cent to 7.8 percent between March and September 2017. It added that the decline in deposit growth is observed across all bank groups.
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