Banks’ non-food credit score grew at 11.3% in April 2022 as in contrast with 4.7% within the year-earlier month, RBI knowledge confirmed on Tuesday.
Loans to agriculture and allied actions continued to develop at 10.6% in April as towards an increase of 10.7% within the year-earlier month, in response to the RBI’s Sectoral Deployment of Bank Credit – April 2022.
Growth in advances to trade stood at 8.1% within the month from a contraction of 0.4% in April 2021.
Size-wise, credit score to medium industries registered a development of 53.5% in April 2022 as towards 44.8% final yr.
Credit to micro and small industries rose 29% from 8.7%, whereas credit score to giant industries recorded a development of 1.6% towards a contraction of three.6% in April 2021, the information confirmed.
Within trade, development in advances to all engineering, beverage and tobacco, chemical compounds and chemical merchandise, meals processing, gems and jewelry, infrastructure, leather-based and leather-based merchandise, mining and quarrying, petroleum, coal merchandise and nuclear fuels, rubber, plastic and their merchandise and autos, automobile elements and transport gear segments accelerated in April 2022 as in contrast with the year-ago month.
However, credit score development to primary steel and steel merchandise, cement and cement merchandise, development, glass and glassware, paper and paper merchandise, textiles and wooden and wooden merchandise decelerated.
Credit to the providers sector elevated 11.1% in April 2022 as in comparison with 2.4% within the year-earlier month, primarily as a result of NBFCs, commerce, tourism, inns and eating places and transport operators.
Personal loans phase continued to carry out effectively, registering a development of 14.7% from 12.1% in April 2021, primarily pushed by housing and automobile loans.
Source: www.thehindu.com
