Non-food bank credit growth decelerates to 7% in December 2019: RBI

01 Feb 2020 Evaluate

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has released data on sectoral deployment of bank credit collected from select 39 scheduled commercial banks, accounting for about 90 per cent of the total non-food credit deployed by all scheduled commercial banks, for the month of December 2019.

As per the report, on a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, non-food bank credit growth decelerated to 7.0 per cent in December 2019 from 12.8 per cent in December 2018. Further, credit to agriculture & allied activities decelerated to 5.3 per cent in December 2019 from 8.4 per cent in December 2018.

RBI also noted that credit growth to industry decelerated to 1.6 per cent in December 2019 from 4.4 per cent in December 2018. Within industry, credit growth to ‘beverage & tobacco’, ‘leather & leather products’, ‘paper & paper products’, ‘rubber plastic & their products’, ‘cement & cement products’ and ‘construction’ accelerated. However, credit growth to ‘food processing’, ‘chemical & chemical products’, ‘basic metal & metal products’, ‘all engineering’ and ‘infrastructure’ contracted.

Besides, credit growth to the services sector decelerated sharply to 6.2 per cent in December 2019 from 23.2 per cent in December 2018, while personal loans growth decelerated marginally to 15.9 per cent in December 2019 from 17 per cent in December 2018.

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