Programs and Performance of BASIC Bank Ltd. for Entrepreneurship Development in SMEs-An Evaluative Study

Abstract

The main objective of the study was to critically evaluate the programs and performance of BASIC bank for entrepreneurship development in SMEs. Both primary and secondary data have been used in the study. The main findings of the study are i) the investment of BASIC bank in Industrial sector occupy the first position and SMEs gets the highest loans (on an average 57%) from the bank over the study period. .ii) It is seen that the productivity performance in terms of working fund to total expenses and total income to total income to total expenses have been satisfactory in most of the banks during study period. iii) It is also observed that the profitability performance in terms of total income, working fund and total deposits have been satisfactory of all the sample banks during the study period.

Keywords: Programs, productivity and profitability, SMEs.