{
 "meta": {
  "dossier": "banks",
  "source": "Reserve Bank of India, DBIE (via the local Data Bank)",
  "vintage": "2026-10-10",
  "mock": false,
  "geo": "IND",
  "releaseDate": null,
  "revisionPolicy": "Bank-wise figures are the banks' own returns as the RBI publishes them and are not revised once printed; the Outlook's latest March is provisional and is replaced by the next edition's figure. Mergers are disclosed on the acquirer, never joined.",
  "frequency": "annual",
  "unit": "inr_crore",
  "base": "as on 31 March",
  "latestPeriod": "2026-03",
  "coverage": "Urban co-operative banks' priority-sector advances by sector, to March 2026",
  "note": "RBI DBIE report 810, the Primary (Urban) Co-operative Banks' Outlook (statistical table), read from the local Data Bank mirror. Provisional, as the source marks every row. ₹ crore. Micro and small enterprises became micro, small and medium enterprises in the table's own labels; kept as two series."
 },
 "dates": [
  "2020-03-01",
  "2021-03-01",
  "2022-03-01",
  "2023-03-01",
  "2024-03-01",
  "2025-03-01",
  "2026-03-01"
 ],
 "series": {
  "education": {
   "name": "education_inr_crore",
   "label": "Education, priority-sector advances of all UCBs",
   "unit": "inr_crore",
   "group": "Priority-sector advances of UCBs",
   "data": [
    2433.66,
    2374.04,
    2628.77,
    3430.77,
    3226.06,
    3526.48,
    3833.39
   ]
  },
  "export_credit": {
   "name": "export_credit_inr_crore",
   "label": "Export Credit, priority-sector advances of all UCBs",
   "unit": "inr_crore",
   "group": "Priority-sector advances of UCBs",
   "data": [
    377.49,
    368.38,
    284.28,
    344.7,
    723.41,
    100.84,
    147.45
   ]
  },
  "micro_and_small_enterprises": {
   "name": "micro_and_small_enterprises_inr_crore",
   "label": "Micro and Small Enterprises, priority-sector advances of all UCBs",
   "unit": "inr_crore",
   "group": "Priority-sector advances of UCBs",
   "data": [
    95075.74,
    101340.07,
    107846.56,
    null,
    null,
    135228.47,
    149852.25
   ],
   "gaps": [
    "2023-03-01",
    "2024-03-01"
   ],
   "gapsNote": "No edition of the RBI's table prints this figure for these years."
  },
  "housing": {
   "name": "housing_inr_crore",
   "label": "Housing, priority-sector advances of all UCBs",
   "unit": "inr_crore",
   "group": "Priority-sector advances of UCBs",
   "data": [
    25352.32,
    25210.6,
    26803.37,
    31502.01,
    29268.28,
    30688.32,
    36281.85
   ]
  },
  "social_infrastructure": {
   "name": "social_infrastructure_inr_crore",
   "label": "Social Infrastructure, priority-sector advances of all UCBs",
   "unit": "inr_crore",
   "group": "Priority-sector advances of UCBs",
   "data": [
    923.22,
    1184.78,
    1113.76,
    1242.31,
    1037.71,
    977.13,
    951.2
   ]
  },
  "others_category_under_priority_sector": {
   "name": "others_category_under_priority_sector_inr_crore",
   "label": "'Others' category under Priority Sector, priority-sector advances of all UCBs",
   "unit": "inr_crore",
   "group": "Priority-sector advances of UCBs",
   "data": [
    16491.72,
    17694.49,
    20012.42,
    32491.65,
    25326.27,
    17090.85,
    16400.84
   ]
  },
  "agriculture": {
   "name": "agriculture_inr_crore",
   "label": "Agriculture, priority-sector advances of all UCBs",
   "unit": "inr_crore",
   "group": "Priority-sector advances of UCBs",
   "data": [
    11712.99,
    12244.99,
    13212.81,
    16550.47,
    16329.05,
    17031.52,
    18824.87
   ]
  },
  "micro_small_and_medium_enterprises": {
   "name": "micro_small_and_medium_enterprises_inr_crore",
   "label": "Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, priority-sector advances of all UCBs",
   "unit": "inr_crore",
   "group": "Priority-sector advances of UCBs",
   "data": [
    null,
    null,
    null,
    134320.44,
    129068.99,
    null,
    null
   ]
  },
  "renewable_energy": {
   "name": "renewable_energy_inr_crore",
   "label": "Renewable Energy, priority-sector advances of all UCBs",
   "unit": "inr_crore",
   "group": "Priority-sector advances of UCBs",
   "data": [
    1476.07,
    1291.09,
    1380.04,
    1049.51,
    1419.27,
    1545.71,
    2486.77
   ]
  }
 }
}