It has been decided in consultation with the Government of India to revise the limit for Ways and Means Advances (WMA) which was ` 30,000 crore as on September 30, 2011 to ` 20,000 crore for October 01, 2011 - December 31, 2011 and to ` 10,000 crore for January 01, 2012 - March 31, 2012.

The Reserve Bank of India has announced the auction of 364-day Government of India Treasury Bills for notified amount of ` 4,000 crore. The auction will be conducted on October 5, 2011 using "Multiple Price Auction" method. The allocation to the non-competitive bidders will be outside the notified amount at the discretion of the Bank. The sale will be subject to the terms and conditions specified in the General Notification No. F.2 (12)-W & M/97 dated 31st March, 1998 issued by Government of India and as amended from time to time.

The Reserve Bank of India has announced the auction of 91-day Government of India Treasury Bills for notified amount of ` 4,000 crore. The auction will be conducted on October 5, 2011 using "Multiple Price Auction" method. The allocation to the non-competitive bidders will be outside the notified amount at the discretion of the Bank. The sale will be subject to the terms and conditions specified in the General Notification No. F.2 (12)-W & M/97 dated 31st March, 1998 issued by Government of India and as amended from time to time.

Data on sectoral deployment of credit collected on a monthly basis from select 47 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 August 2011 are set out in Statements I (rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/content/DOCs/IEPR505SD0911_1.xls) and II (rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/content/DOCs/IEPR505SD0911_2.xls) . These data are also available in the Real-Time Handbook of Statistics on the Indian Economy (dbie.rbi.org.in (dbie.rbi.org.in/) ).