In the current financial year so far, deposits and advances grew with £ 3,54,321 crore (£ 3.13.053 crore in the period of the year ago) and £ 1,97.546 crore (£ 2,7883 crore) respectively.
The gap between deposit agreement and credit payment has been extended to the current financial year so far compared to the period of the year ago.
This is at a time when banks have a healthy deposit, even in the midst of reducing the deposit rates and credit growth, in which India Inc Inc more is increasingly relatively cheaper credit sources such as corporate bonds, commercial papers, and so on.
In the current financial year so far (4 April 2025 to 9 August 2025, the deposit of the down payment was higher than credit payments with £ 1,56,774 crore against £ 34,270 crore in the period of the year ago. (5 April 2024 to 9, 2024), according to RBI’s planned banks’ Declaration of India in India.
Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) Member Nachth Kumar (Director and Chief Executive, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi), noted in his comments during the last MPC meeting that credit decrease did not happen in the expected way, despite lower interest rates.
“The urban demand remains modest, although the demand in the countryside shows healthy growth, led by rising national wages, robust agricultural growth with the prospects of a good monsoon,” he said
In the current financial year so far, deposits and advances grew with £ 3,54,321 crore (£ 3.13.053 crore in the period of the year ago) and £ 1,97.546 crore (£ 2,7883 crore) respectively.
MPC member and the economist Saugata Bhattacharya, based in Mumbai, noted in his comments on the MPC meeting that the intervening period has facilitated a fairly large transfer of policy dependence to credit interest from June 2025, especially for new loans.
“To repeat, one of the main objectives of facilitating monetary policy to reduce loan costs to support the intention and decisions of investments. This can probably facilitate an increased demand for credit. To a certain extent this has happened.
“Bank credit flows to the micro and small companies (from 27 June) have largely been held up. More generally, the general streams of funds to the commercial sector, both through domestic and offshore channels, also robust,” he said.
However, Bhattacharya underlined that the interest rates on new deposits have fallen sharper in the same period (the intervening period of June 2025) than on new loans.
‘The first facieThis would probably have been driven in the first place by cutbacks in wholesalers, due to the large liquidity surplus. Even invoicing in the underlying deposit -mix, this fall in deposit rates from any concerns about the growth of domestic savings, given my suspicions about limited foreign savings (capital) flows to India, at least in the near future, “he said.
According to RBI data, the term rates of the banks of more than one year tenor decreased to 5.85/6.60 percent on 8 August 2025 against 6.00/7.30 percent on August 9, 2024.
The overnight stay MCLR (marginal costs of funds -based loan interest) have risen to 7.85/8.15 percent of 8.10/8.60 percent.
Published on August 21, 2025
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