List of Registered Banks in India

Though this article might not meet your expectations with respect to the kind of data that you are used to see in my blog, the purpose of this article is two fold:

1. To list out all the Registered Banks in India &
2. For you to find out if a Bank is authorized to carry out banking operations in India.

The list below is the list of Banks that are registered with the Reserve Bank of India and are Authorized to carry out banking operations within the bounds of the Indian Nation.

There are cases where people feel that an entity is a bank and might deposit money, while they might not be registered/authorized to collect deposits. So, as customers it is our responsibility to validate the credentials of the entity with which we deposit our cash.

The list below is correct as of May 2012 (Original Article Written in April 2011).

Scheduled Commercial Banks

1. ABN AMRO
2. Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank
3. Allahabad Bank
4. Andhra Bank
5. Antwerp Diamond Bank
6. Axis Bank
7. Bank International Indonesia
8. Bank of America
9. Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait
10. Bank of Baroda
11. Bank of Ceylon
12. Bank of India
13. Bank of Maharashtra
14. Bank of Nova Scotia
15. Barclays Bank
16. Canara Bank
17. Catholic Syrian Bank
18. Central Bank of India
19. Citibank India
20. City Union Bank
21. Corporation Bank
22. Credit Suisse
23. Dena Bank
24. Deutsche Bank
25. Development Credit Bank
26. Dhanalakshmi Bank
27. Federal Bank
28. HDFC Bank
29. HSBC
30. ICICI Bank
31. IDBI Bank
32. Indian Bank
33. Indian Overseas Bank
34. IndusInd Bank
35. ING Vysya Bank
36. Jammu & Kashmir Bank
37. Karnataka Bank Limited
38. Karur Vysya Bank
39. Kotak Mahindra Bank
40. Lakshmi Vilas Bank
41. Oriental Bank of Commerce
42. Punjab & Sind Bank
43. Punjab National Bank
44. Royal Bank of Scotland
45. South Indian Bank
46. Standard Chartered
47. State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur
48. State Bank of Hyderabad
49. State Bank of India
50. State Bank of Indore
51. State Bank of Mysore
52. State Bank of Patiala
53. State Bank of Saurashtra
54. State Bank of Travancore
55. Syndicate Bank
56. Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Limited
57. The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
58. UCO Bank
59. Union Bank of India
60. United Bank of India
61. Vijaya Bank
62. Yes Bank
63. Ratnakar Bank

An Important Point to Note here is that, some of the Foreign Banks in the list above do not provide banking services like savings account, current account etc to regular citizens and cater exclusively to the High-Net-Worth-Individual population of India.

Among these 62 banks, 28 are Public Sector or Owned by the Government of India, 18 are Private Sector Banks and 16 are Foreign Banks. To know which is which, click on the links below:

List of Public Sector Banks in India
List of Private Sector Banks in India
List of Foreign Owned Banks in India


Apart from these regular Banks, there are also certain Co-Operative Banks and Grameen or Rural Banks that are authorized by the RBI. They are as follows:

Urban Co-Operative Banks

1. Nagar urban co-operative Bank ltd.
2. Nagpur nagarik sahakari Bank ltd.
3. Nutan nagarik sahakari Bank ltd.
4. Thane bharat sahakari Bank ltd.
5. Bharat co-operative Bank (Mumbai) ltd.
6. Cosmos co-operative Bank ltd.
7. Karad urban co-operative Bank ltd.
8. Saraswat co-operative Bank ltd.
9. Shamrao vithal co-operative Bank ltd.
10. Citizen credit co-operative Bank ltd.
11. Punjab and Maharashtra co-operative Bank ltd.
12. Abhyudaya Cooperative Bank
13. Janakalyan Sahakari Bank

Regional Rural Banks or Grameen Banks

1. Allahabad UP Gramin Bank
2. Andhra pragathi Grameena Bank
3. Baroda uttar pradesh Gramin Bank
4. Chaitanya Godavari Grameena Bank
5. Deccan Grameena Bank
6. Himachal Gramin Bank
7. Karnataka vikas Grameena Bank
8. Kashi gomti samyut Gramin Bank
9. Maharashtra Gramin Bank
10. Pandyan Grama Bank
11. Prathama Bank
12. Purvanchal Gramin Bank
13. Sarva u.p. Gramin Bank
14. Saurashtra Gramin Bank
15. Jaipur Thar Gramin Bank
16. J & k Grameen Bank
17. Madhya bharat Gramin Bank
18. Surguja kshetriya Gramin Bank
19. Aryavart Gramin Bank
20. Shreyas Gramin Bank
21. Krishna Grameena Bank
22. Rajasthan Gramin Bank
23. Wainganga krishna Gramin Bank
24. Rushikulya Gramya Bank
25. Baroda gujarat Gramin Bank
26. Baroda Rajasthan Gramin Bank
27. Hadoti kshetriya Gramin Bank
28. Jhabua dhar kshetriya Gramin Bank
29. Nainital-almora kshetriya Gramin Bank
30. Meghalaya Rural Bank
31. Rewa sidhi Gramin Bank
32. Sharda Gramin Bank
33. Haryana Gramin Bank
34. Saptagiri Gramin BANK