Research and Data

Today, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released the report titled “State Finances: A Study of Budgets of 2015-16”, an annual publication that provides information, analysis and an assessment of the finances of state governments. It is the primary source for disaggregated state-wise fiscal data. It also delineates the changing dynamics of fiscal federalism over the years. The theme of this year’s report is ‘Quality of Sub-national Public Expenditure’. The report highli

The Reserve Bank of India has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended April 01, 2016. Ajit Prasad Assistant Adviser Press Release: 2015-2016/2359

The Reserve Bank of India has launched the 33rd round of its Order Books, Inventories and Capacity Utilisation Survey (OBICUS). The survey is for the reference period January-March 2016 (Q4:2015-16). The Reserve Bank has been conducting Order Books, Inventories and Capacity Utilisation Survey (OBICUS) of the manufacturing sector on a quarterly basis. The survey seeks quantitative information on order books, inventories and capacity utilisation, such as, pending order

The Reserve Bank of India today released on its website the results of the following Surveys: Industrial Outlook Survey – Q4: 2015-16 (Round 73) Quarterly Order Books, Inventories and Capacity Utilisation Survey (OBICUS) – October-December 2015 (Round 32) Consumer Confidence Survey – March 2016 Inflation Expectations Survey of Households – March 2016 (Round 43) Survey of Professional Forecasters on Macroeconomic Indicators – March 2016 (Round 39) The Survey results ar

1. Reserve Bank of India - Liabilities and Assets (₹ Billion) Item 2015 2016 Variation Mar. 27 Mar. 18 Mar. 25 Week Year 1 2 3 4 5 4 Loans and advances 4.1 Central Government – – – – – 4.2 State Governments 57.60 9.09 11.92 2.83 –45.68 2. Foreign Exchange Reserves Item As on March 25, 2016 Variation over Week End-March 2015 Year ₹ Bn. US$ Mn. ₹ Bn. US$ Mn. ₹ Bn. US$ Mn. ₹ Bn. US$ Mn. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 Total Reserves 23,690.1 355,559.7 53.4 –387.5 2,313.7 13,921.3 2,34

The Reserve Bank of India today released on its website the data related to Finances of Non-Government Non-Financial (NGNF) Private Limited Companies for 2014-15. The data have been compiled based on audited annual accounts of 2,37,398 NGNF private limited companies received from Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), accounting for 23.3 per cent of population paid-up capital. The data is based on their Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) and Form AOC-4 (Non-X

Data on sectoral deployment of bank credit collected on a monthly basis from select 46 scheduled commercial banks, accounting for about 95 per cent of the total non-food credit deployed by all scheduled commercial banks, for the month of February 2016 are set out in Statements I and II. These data are also available in the Real-Time Handbook of Statistics on the Indian Economy (http://dbie.rbi.org.in). Highlights of the sectoral deployment of bank credit are given bel

The Reserve Bank of India today released on its website data related to Finances of Non-Government Non-Financial (NGNF) Public Limited Companies, 2014-15. The data have been compiled based on audited annual accounts of select 16,923 NGNF public limited companies accounting for 29.5 per cent of population paid-up capital. Of these, data pertaining to 16,587 companies are based on Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) systems (Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)

International Investment Position (IIP) is a statistical statement that shows, at a point in time, the value and the composition of (a) financial assets of residents of an economy that are claims on non-residents, and gold bullion held as reserve assets; and (b) liabilities of residents of an economy to non-residents. The difference between an economy's external financial assets and liabilities is its net IIP, which may be positive or negative. Such balance sheet anal

The Reserve Bank has today released data on Reserve Money for the week ended March 25, 2016 and Money Supply for the fortnight ended March 18, 2016. Ajit Prasad Assistant Adviser Press Release: 2015-2016/2300