Srinivasan Vaidyanathan
Analyst
A long question, but I'll try to be short and crisp as possible. If you think about the loan growth and the market share, one thing is that our loan growth is consistent, right, consistently growing, including during the COVID period. And one has to look at it in not one quarter, two quarters, but over a longer period of time, one has to look at how we are growing rather than the one period. So, essentially looking at the consistency of growth over a longer period, for example, you can take a two-year growth, right, a longer period. And that includes the COVID period too. We've grown at 35%, right? But call it, high-teens and that kind of a growth rate for sure. And similarly, you can go back for five-year period between 2016 to '21 or something like that, again, about two plus -- that's little more than double, call it, IP type of growth. That's what we had in that time. So one has to evaluate in the current circumstances, one also has to evaluate based on an incremental basis, right, what we have grown. We believe based on an incremental basis, we have a share of more than 25% or so on an incremental basis, right, from what has happened. If you think about it, INR1,79,000 crores in the past 12 months, a INR3,25,000 crores in 24 months, right? And again, we focus on appropriate products, we touched upon the categories of commercial and rural or wholesale and retail. Yes, at some point in time, we did grow good amounts of wholesale with a good demand. We were there for the customers to support them in terms of the wholesale, very highly rated. And now we see a lot of prepayments happening, that's about seven-odd percent is what year-on-year we see in the wholesale. On the commercial and rural, enormous opportunity and very fast growing. About one-third of the country's GDP is contributed by that kind of a segment, right, that segment. And we want to participate more vehemently in that group -- in that segment, and we will continue to bounce on that one. On the retail, we were subdued, rightfully so from a policy point of view, we are back, and that is what we are seeing in the sequential growth at 4.5% or so. So net-net, I mean coming back to the same summary, which is now one quarter or two quarters doesn't establish what the growth is, it's about the consistency of growth and over a period of time. And that's how we must look at it in terms of our growth, and we will continue to capture market share. And again, in a balanced portfolio across secured, unsecured in retail, across commercial and rural and wholesale, so across various product spectrums, customer groups.