The RBI regulation timeline
Built from our full census of RBI’s notification archive (13,185 documents) and RBI’s official withdrawal register (9,462 repealed circulars). Green bars = notifications issued that year; red counts = how many of that year’s circulars RBI has since repealed.
1940s: 5 issued · 3 since repealed1950s: 0 issued · 10 since repealed1960s: 0 issued · 134 since repealed1970s: 3 issued · 927 since repealed1980s: 5 issued · 1,765 since repealed1990s: 162 issued · 2,869 since repealed2000s: 4,019 issued · 1,988 since repealed2010s: 5,342 issued · 1,376 since repealed2020s: 2,783 issued · 390 since repealed
2026140 issued · 9 since repealed
2025334 issued · 79 since repealed
2024164 issued · 59 since repealed
2023129 issued · 51 since repealed
2022204 issued · 72 since repealed
20211610 issued · 60 since repealed
2020202 issued · 60 since repealed
2019268 issued · 46 since repealed
2018244 issued · 31 since repealed
2017335 issued · 45 since repealed
2016495 issued · 91 since repealed
2015635 issued · 180 since repealed
2014648 issued · 182 since repealed
2013735 issued · 220 since repealed
2012725 issued · 200 since repealed
2011607 issued · 184 since repealed
2010650 issued · 197 since repealed
2009617 issued · 237 since repealed
2008621 issued · 297 since repealed
2007615 issued · 233 since repealed
2006364 issued · 177 since repealed
2005366 issued · 161 since repealed
2004481 issued · 186 since repealed
2003344 issued · 141 since repealed
2002308 issued · 187 since repealed
2001171 issued · 196 since repealed
2000132 issued · 173 since repealed
199996 issued · 191 since repealed
199835 issued · 227 since repealed
19979 issued · 300 since repealed
19965 issued · 314 since repealed
19950 issued · 276 since repealed
19946 issued · 364 since repealed
19935 issued · 336 since repealed
19925 issued · 260 since repealed
19910 issued · 298 since repealed
19901 issued · 303 since repealed
19892 issued · 266 since repealed
19881 issued · 226 since repealed
19870 issued · 256 since repealed
19861 issued · 168 since repealed
19850 issued · 216 since repealed
19841 issued · 125 since repealed
19830 issued · 142 since repealed
19820 issued · 140 since repealed
19810 issued · 119 since repealed
19800 issued · 107 since repealed
19790 issued · 131 since repealed
19782 issued · 137 since repealed
19771 issued · 118 since repealed
19760 issued · 96 since repealed
19750 issued · 84 since repealed
19740 issued · 90 since repealed
19730 issued · 91 since repealed
19720 issued · 80 since repealed
19710 issued · 51 since repealed
19700 issued · 49 since repealed
19690 issued · 45 since repealed
19680 issued · 31 since repealed
19670 issued · 15 since repealed
19660 issued · 16 since repealed
19650 issued · 7 since repealed
19640 issued · 6 since repealed
19630 issued · 7 since repealed
19620 issued · 4 since repealed
19600 issued · 3 since repealed
19590 issued · 6 since repealed
19580 issued · 1 since repealed
19560 issued · 1 since repealed
19540 issued · 1 since repealed
19500 issued · 1 since repealed
19480 issued · 1 since repealed
19460 issued · 1 since repealed
19440 issued · 1 since repealed
19413 issued
19402 issued
19391 issued
193811 issued
19374 issued
19363 issued
19352 issued
19342 issued
Source: Reserve Bank of India archives, census by BankPulse. Counts are of RBI notification pages; press releases counted separately.