A Comparative Analysis of Loans and Advances in Selected Urban Co-Operative Banks
A Comparative Analysis of Loans and Advances in Selected Urban Co-Operative Banks
A Comparative Analysis of Loans and Advances in Selected Urban Co-Operative Banks
ABSTRACT
‘Co-operation’ was born as a peaceful reaction against the mercantile
economy and industrial revolution which had resulted in the concentration
of wealth, mass poverty and degradation. It is a fact finding study aimed at
analyzing the loans and advances and overdue of select (eight) Urban Co-
operative Banks (UCBs) in Coastal Andhra region of Andhra Pradesh over
a period of ten years (i.e. from 2002-03 to 2011-12), with the help of select
indicators like loans and advances, credit deposit ratio(C-D ratio), overdues
and ratio of overdues to loans and advances. This paper focuses on the
growth and composition of loans and advances and impact of overdues on
performance of sample UCBs in Coastal Andhra region of Andhra Pradesh.
UCBs mobilize funds by accepting different types of deposits from its
members and non-members also, but urban banks grant loans or cash credit
to their members only against mortgage of immovable property or against
the surety of one or more persons who are also members or against the
pledge of goods, gold, silver, ornaments, Government securities or on the
security of fixed deposits and insurance policies.
Keywords: Loans and Advances, C-D ratio and Overdues.
INTRODUCTION
In India, first urban credit society was started in 1889 in rest while Baroda State. However,
the urban credit movement in India picked up momentum only after the Maclagan
Committee drew attention to its potential. As a result of recommendations of Maclagan
Committee and banking crisis of 1913-17 which saw the failure of many commercial banks,
Urban Co-operative Banks (UCBs) began to grow in India. They grew both in numbers and
size, and diversified their activities considerably. The utility of UCBs in financing artisans,
small traders, businessmen, factory workers and salaried people with limited fixed income in
urban or semi-urban areas middle classes was recognized by various committees and
working groups. Thus UCBs were started in India to meet the chief object of catering to the
banking and credit requirements of urban middle classes. Besides protecting the middle
classes and persons of modest means from the clutches of the money lenders, the UCBs are
also expected to inculcate the habit of thrift and savings amongst them.