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Document - Appendix Table IV.6: Advances to the Priority Sectors by Private Sector Banks () or PDF - Appendix Table IV.6: Advances to the Priority Sectors by Private Sector Banks ()
Date : Oct 22, 2009
Appendix Table IV.6: Advances to the Priority Sectors by Private Sector Banks
(As on the last reporting Friday)

(Amount in Rs. crore)

Sector

March 2007

March 2008

March 2009@

Amount

Percentage of ANBC

Amount

Percentage of ANBC

Amount

Percentage of ANBC

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Priority Sector Advances #

1,44,549

42.9

1,64,068

47.8

1,90,207

46.8

of which :

 

 

 

 

 

 

I.

Agriculture

52,034

12.7

58,567

15.4

76,062

15.9

II.

Small-scale industries

13,136

3.9

III.

Small Enterprises *

46,912

13.7

47,916

12.0

IV.

Other priority sectors

76,919

22.9

V.

Retail Trade

8,037

2.4

7,325

1.8

VI.

Micro Credit

2,494

0.7

4,612

1.1

VII.

Education

509

0.1

797

0.2

VIII.

Housing

47,516

13.8

53,463

13.2

@ : Data are provisional.
# : In terms of revised guidelines on lending to priority sector, broad categories of advances under priority sector include agriculture, small enterprises sector, retail trade, microcredit, education and housing.
* : The new guidelines on priority sector advances take into account the revised definition of small and micro enterprises as per the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act ,2006.
Note : 1. Indirect agriculture is reckoned upto 4.5 per cent of ANBC for calculation of percentage for agriculture.
2. ANBC - Adjusted net bank credit or credit equivalent amount of off-balance sheet exposures, whichever is higher, with effect from April 30, 2007.
Source : Data furnished by banks.