Mumbai, Dec. 1 -- Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released data on sectoral deployment of bank credit for the month of October 2025 collected from 41 select scheduled commercial banks (SCBs), accounting for about 95 per cent of the total non-food credit by all SCBs. On a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, non-food bank credit grew by 11.1 per cent as on the fortnight ended October 31, 2025, compared to 11.7 per cent during the corresponding fortnight of the previous year (i.e., November 01, 2024). Credit to agriculture and allied activities registered a y-o-y growth of 8.9 per cent (15.5 per cent in the corresponding fortnight of the previous year).

Credit to industry recorded a y-o-y growth of 10.0 per cent, compared with 8.1 per cent in the corre...