Liquidity surplus
Banking system liquidity: net absorption by RBI. Daily, ₹ lakh crore. Latest: 1.34 (18 Oct 2026).
Level
₹ lakh crore
About this series
| Series id | liquidity_surplus |
| Source | RBI: Weekly Statistical Supplement: Liquidity Operations by RBI |
| Coverage | 25 Aug 2025 to 18 Oct 2026 (420 observations) |
| Release | WSS released Friday evening |
| Updated by | Daily automated pipeline · pipelines/sources/rbi/wss.py |
| Licence | Terms not yet reviewed; not offered for download |
| Notes | Net of all RBI liquidity operations (LAF repo and reverse repo, variable-rate operations, MSF, SDF, standing facilities and outright OMOs). RBI prints net injection (+) / absorption (-); we flip the sign so that a positive value is a surplus in the banking system. ₹ crore in the source, shown in ₹ lakh crore. |
| Checked against the official release | Not yet. Values come straight from the publisher, but no one has yet compared them with the press release. |
Download and cite
Not available for download (see licence).
Cite: Econvitals India (2026). Banking system liquidity: net absorption by RBI [liquidity_surplus]. Retrieved 29 Oct 2026. Original source: RBI.
Latest observations
| Period | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 18 Oct 2026 | 1.34 | RBI WSS |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 1.37 | RBI WSS |
| 16 Oct 2026 | 1.50 | RBI WSS |
| 15 Oct 2026 | 1.86 | RBI WSS |
| 14 Oct 2026 | 1.54 | RBI WSS |
| 13 Oct 2026 | 2.08 | RBI WSS |
| 12 Oct 2026 | 2.44 | RBI WSS |
| 11 Oct 2026 | 1.40 | RBI WSS |
| 10 Oct 2026 | 1.39 | RBI WSS |
| 9 Oct 2026 | 2.97 | RBI WSS |
| 8 Oct 2026 | 3.92 | RBI WSS |
| 7 Oct 2026 | 4.28 | RBI WSS |
| 6 Oct 2026 | 3.60 | RBI WSS |
| 5 Oct 2026 | 3.91 | RBI WSS |
| 4 Oct 2026 | 2.03 | RBI WSS |
| 3 Oct 2026 | 2.09 | RBI WSS |
| 2 Oct 2026 | 1.33 | RBI WSS |
| 1 Oct 2026 | 2.99 | RBI WSS |
| 30 Sep 2026 | 3.48 | RBI WSS |
| 29 Sep 2026 | 3.53 | RBI WSS |
| 28 Sep 2026 | 3.36 | RBI WSS |
| 27 Sep 2026 | 1.98 | RBI WSS |
| 26 Sep 2026 | 1.82 | RBI WSS |
| 25 Sep 2026 | 3.12 | RBI WSS |
Revisions
No revisions recorded since this series was added. When the publisher revises a past value, the old and new values appear here.