c SICKNESS IN INDIAN INDL FSTRY 63
TABLE I
INDUSTRY-WISE STATEMENT OF SIGK INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS ENJOYING
AGGREGATE BANK CREDIT OF RS 1 CRORE AND ABOVE AS
AT THE END OF DECEMBER, 1977.
No of units Outstandings
(Rs crores)
1 Textiles* 73 260.40 (30.3)
2 Engineering 76 225.78 (26.3)
3 Chemicals 17 94.75 (11.0)
4 Jute 30 79.85 f9.3) ^
5 Iron and steel 20 41.57 (4.8)
6 Sugar 27 40.49 (4.7)
7 Rubber 5 21.22 f2.5;
8 Cement 3 10.90 (1.3)
9 Miscellaneous 38 83.49 (9.7)
Total 289 858.45 (100.0)
^Excludes sick mills taken over by the National Textiles Corporation NOTE: Figures in brackets are percentages of total outstandings. SOURCE: Compiled from Reserve Bank of India, Report on Currency and Finance (1977-78),
Vol 1, p 118.
TABLE II
STATE-WISE STATEMENT OF SICK INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS ENJOYING AGGREGATE BANK CREDIT OF RS 1 CRORE AND ABOVE AS AT THE END OF DECEMBER, 1977
JVb of units Outsi landings
(Rs crores}
1 West Bengal 71 238.30 (27.8)
2 Maharashtra 63 199.54 (23.2;
3 Tamil Nadu 35 138.04 (16.1)
4 Gujarat 32 82.56 (9.6)
5 Uttar Pradesh 33 60.08 (7.0)
6 Karnataka 11 37.45 f4.4)
7 Andhra Pradesh 8 19.21 (2.2)
8 Rajasthan 6 17.38 (2.0;
9 Bihar 8 17,03 (2.0)
10 Orissa 3 13.48 (1.6)
11 Madhya Pradesh 5 10.58 (1.2;
12 Kerala 5 9.06 0.1)
13 Haryana 4 7.62 f0.9)
14 Delhi 1 3.12 (0.4;
15 Pondichery 1 1.60 (0.2;
16 Assam 1 1.41 (0.2)
17 Goa 1 1.03 (0.1)
18 Punjab 1 0.96 (0.1)
Total 289 858.45 (100.0;
NorE: Figures in brackets are percentages of total outstandings.
SOURCE: Compiled from Reserve Bank of India, Report on Currency and Finance (1977-78), Vol l,p 118.
This survey of sick units is not comprehensive and there may be many more which have not been formally declared, sick, but