Credit offtake from public and private sector banks in the country grew by 23.4% for the one-year period ended January 28, indicating an upswing in industrial activity, says the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). For the one-year ended January 28 credit offtake stood at Rs 38.47 lakh crore as against Rs 31.18 lakh crore during the year ago period. During the period, deposits went up to Rs 51.28 lakh crore from Rs 44.39 lakh crore as on January, 2010, according to latest data from the RBI. In its annual monetary policy at the beginning of the fiscal, the RBI had estimated that credit offtake would grow by 20% this fiscal.
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