Productive Scale Efficiency of Indian Banks

Abstract

The Indian banks have entered into a new millennium because new vistas have been opened up for this sector. This paper deals with the p erformance of Public Sector Banks and New Private Sector Banks in India/or a period of thirteen years i. e. from 1996- 97 to 2007-08. For this purpose the productive Scafe efficiencies have been calculated. The scores have been cafcllfatedus ing the advanced non - parametric technique of DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis). The results reveal that New Private Banks are more efficient than the Public Sector Banks which is due to the reason of their access to the latest know-how. Inter-comparison of PSBs reveals that NBs group is performing better than the SBlandA group.