Appendix Table II.12 : Advances to the Priority Sectors by Indian Private Sector Banks (As on the last Friday)
| | Sector | March 1996
| | March 1997
| | March 1998*
| | | Amount | Percentage | | Amount | Percentage | | Amount | Percentage | | | | to Net bank | | | to Net bank | | | to Net bank | | | | credit | | | credit | | | credit |
| | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 4 | 5 | | 6 | 7 |
| | I. | Agriculture | 1,233 | 6.7 | | 1,953 | 9.1 | | 2,746 | 9.7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | II. | Small-scale industries | 3,482 | 18.8 | | 4,754 | 22.2 | | 5,848 | 20.6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | III | Other priority sectors | 1,568 | 8.5 | | 2,125 | 9.9 | | 3,020 | 10.6 | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Total (I+II+III) | 6,283 | 34.0 | | 8,832 | 41.2 | | 11,614 | 40.9 | * Provisional. |
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