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A Study on the Physical Expansion of Commercial Banks in India

Year 2014
Volume/Issue/Review Month Vol. - VII | Issue II | July - December
Title A Study on the Physical Expansion of Commercial Banks in India
Authors Dr. G.P. Bhandari
Broad area A Study on the Physical Expansion of Commercial Banks in India
Abstract
Growth and expanasion of banking are primary steps in the mobilization of people’s surplus income and to provide
loans to the deficit spenders which ultimately plays the role of the catalyst in the economic development of a nation.
To understand the physical growth of commercial banks in India, numbers of scheduled and non-scheduled banks;
branches of scheduled commercial banks according to population group, bank-wise branch distribution and the
region-wise branch distribution of scheduled commercial banks in India have been studied. The given paper put
attention primarily on the physical size of commercial banking in the country over the period of 2000-2011. The
study shows that regions like North-Eastern states are far behind the other regions of the country as far as expansion
of commercial banking branches are concerned.
Description The growth and development of a country highly depends on the well -structured financial system prevailing in the economy. In a country like India, commercial banks have been playing a crucial role in the economic progress of the country. Basically in the
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