Bank’s non-food credit has registered double-digit growth of 10.6 percent in July 2018 as compared to 5.3 percent in the same period last year, led by loans to the services sector growing at a faster clip. According to data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), credit to the services sector grew 23 percent for the reporting period, up from the year-ago period’s 4.9 percent. It noted that the data includes performance of 41 scheduled commercial banks, accounting for about 90 per cent of the total non-food credit deployed.
Data further highlighted that credit to industry rose 0.3 percent, with sub-sectors such as infrastructure, textiles, chemicals, food processing and engineering showing acceleration, while loans to basic metal and metal products, petroleum, coal products and nuclear fuels, cement and cement products and paper and paper products dropped. It also showed that personal loans continued to grow at 16.7 percent in July 2018, up from a growth of 15 percent in July 2017, with consumer durables and credit cards showing strongest growth. The apex bank also released quarterly data on deposits and credit, which pointed out a deceleration in rural credit growth in the April-June 2018 period to 8.3 percent from 12.3 percent in the year-ago period and 13 percent in the preceding quarter.
As per to the data, bank credit growth in the June quarter was led by metropolitan branches which witnessed a four-year high in credit growth, accounting for 64 percent of the overall lending. It noted that private sector banks continued to lead deposit mobilisation, while state-run lenders showed a modest pick-up in growth in deposits and foreign banks showed a moderation in deposit growth. It added that two-thirds of the total business for banks came from seven states - Maharashtra, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and West Bengal.
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