Number of Branches and ATMs

Number of Branches and ATMs

Please note that if we count the number of the bank branches including the cooperative and local area banks, the number is around 82000.

Out of this, the share of the Scheduled Commercial Banks is shown in the following table

Bank Branches (As at end-March 2010)
Sr. No	Name of the Bank	Branches
		Rural	Semi- urban	Urban	Metro- politan	Total
	Scheduled Commercial Banks	20,773	17,638	16,007	14,742	69,160
	Public Sector Banks	19,567	14,595	12,920	11,743	58,825
	Nationalized Banks	13,652	9,376	9,607	8,961	41,596
	Private Sector Banks	1,201	3,037	3,027	2,762	10,027
	Foreign Banks	5	6	60	237	308

 

Number of ATMs (As at end-March 2010)
Sr. No	Name of the Bank						ATMs
							On-site	Off-site	Total
	Scheduled Commercial Banks						32,679	27,474	60,153
	Public Sector Banks						23,797	16,883	40,680
	Nationalized Banks						12,655	7,047	19,702
	Private Sector Banks						8,603	9,844	18,447
	Foreign Banks						279	747	1,026

 

• The Nationalized banks have around 4 times the number of branches of the Private sector banks in India.
  
• Per cent of ATMs to Branches stands maximum for the Foreign Banks.
  
• The number of ATMs Private sector banks is almost equal to the number of ATMs in Nationalized Banks, but half of the number of Public Sector Bank ATMs. This indicated the high number of ATMs of the SBI group.
  

Please note the following:

• Out of the total over 6 lakh habitations, the banking penetrates only 5%, where there is a commercial bank branch.
  
• Just around 40% of the population in the country has a Bank account.
  
• This ratio is lowest in the North East states of India.
  
• The number of the card holders are 13% (Debit Cards) and 2% (Credit Cards).