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Table 6.1: Reserve Money: Components and Sources             (Rupees crore)    
  Outstanding Variation over  
Item as on Month Year-on-Year Financial Year So Far Full Financial Year  
  15-Feb-26   2023 2024 2024-25 2025-26 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)
Reserve Money 4935567 72920 200909 223338 80782 106324 317872 244688 197796
    (1.5) (4.5) (4.7) (1.7) (2.2) (7.8) (5.6) (4.3)
Components (i+ii+iii)              
  i) Currency in circulation 4044524 64573 194966 393095 139967 320076 244804 132941 212986
    (1.6) (5.6) (10.8) (4.0) (8.6) (7.8) (3.9) (6.1)
 ii) Bankers' deposits with RBI 771521 5403 -23550 -175967 -77961 -219968 53751 94972 -33960
    (0.7) (-2.4) (-18.6) (-7.6) (-22.2) (6.1) (10.2) (-3.3)
iii) Other deposits with RBI 119522 2943 29494 6210 18776 6216 19317 16774 18770
    (2.5) (35.2) (5.5) (19.9) (5.5) (33.1) (21.6) (19.9)
Sources (i+ii+iii+iv-v)                
  i) Net RBI credit to Government 1872294 164979 228394 678904 177 364188 528 -257912 314893
    (9.7) (23.7) (56.9) (0.0) (24.1) (0.0) (-17.8) (26.4)
     Centre 1850761 162925 221092 679440 -15335 375301 1403 -263719 288804
    (9.7) (23.3) (58.0) (-1.3) (25.4) (0.1) (-18.2) (24.3)
 ii) RBI credit to banks & Comm. -315489 -208261 -32982 -510130 240788 -196474 449259 48296 -72868
       sector   (194.2) (-14.5) (-262.1) (-521.8) (165.1) (-82.6) (-51.1) (157.9)
     Banks (incl.NABARD) -327032 -202850 -50454 -493080 226601 -169771 439280 60439 -96708
    (163.3) (-23.3) -297 (-374.2) (108.0) (-78.4) (-50.0) (159.7)
     Commercial Sector 11543 -5411 17472 -17050 14187 -26703 9979 -12143 23840
    (-31.9) (157.1) (-59.6) (98.5) (-69.8) (60.2) (-45.7) (165.5)
 iii) Net  foreign exchange  6391542 329456 411565 994912 155548 840595 145136 653467 309865
        assets of RBI   (5.4) (8.3) (18.4) (3.0) (15.1) (3.3) (14.2) (5.9)
 iv) Govt's currency liabilities to  40372 477 2819 4355 2585 3741 2272 3146 3199
        the public   (1.2) (8.5) (10.8) (7.7) (10.2) (8.1) (10.4) (9.6)
  v) Net non-monetary liabilities  3053152 213732 408887 944702 318316 905726 279324 202310 357292
       of RBI   (7.5) (24.1) (44.8) (17.8) (42.2) (21.3) (12.7) (20.0)
Note: Figures within brackets represent variations in percentages
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