Today, the Reserve Bank of India released the first edition of its statistical publication titled “Handbook of Statistics on Indian States 2015-16”. In this publication, the Reserve Bank has aimed at disseminating wide-ranging data on the regional economy of India.

This publication – the first of its kind – follows the approach of ‘one indicator-one table’ and covers in 125 tables sub-national statistics on socio-demographics, state domestic product, agriculture, industry, infrastructure, banking and fiscal indicators across Indian States over a time period ranging from 1951 to 2015-16.

Comments and suggestions on the Handbook are welcome and may please be sent to the Director, Regional Economy Monitoring Division, Department of Economic and Policy Research, Reserve Bank of India, 7th Floor, Central Office Building, Mumbai 400 001 or please click here to send email.

Alpana Killawala
Principal Adviser

Press Release : 2015-2016/3010