APPLICATION OF DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS FOR MEASURING FINANCIAL EFFICIENCY OF DISTRICT CENTRAL COOPERATIVE BANKS

Agriculture being the primary sector of Indian economy now a day's drawn more attention and emphasised has given for the overall development. Efficient credit facilities are essential for the improvement of this sector. Cooperative bank play a vital role in providing the forward as well as backward linkage of agricultural credit to be routed. The study focused to measure the efficiency of District Co-operative banks of Odisha using DEA approach. The efficiency score are calculated under BCC Mode of DEA which is based on the assumption of variable return to scale and DCCBS are ranked accordingly. The findings indicated that majority of DCCB's are efficient where as others found to be inefficient