• BONEY BOSE

Cooperatives have been created to meet the essential need of a poor people, to pool their resources and to strength third position in the market where the individual member of such group would have little or no chance of becoming equal partners in the economic process. Today, co-operative banks operate across the country side-by-side with commercial banks and play a crucial role in providing need-based finance, especially for people engaged in agricultural and agriculture-based operations including farming, cattle, milk, personal finance, etc., along with some small industries and self-employment driven activities. This paper studies the lending practices of Meenachil Service Co-operative Bank, relationship between deposits accepted from the public and loans and advances granted by the bank and also the satisfaction level of the customers from Bank‘s lending policies.

Co-operative banks, Rural development

"ROLE OF MEENACHIL SERVICE CO-OPERATIVE BANK EDAMATTOM, KERALA IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no.129-134, July-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807267.pdf

"ROLE OF MEENACHIL SERVICE CO-OPERATIVE BANK EDAMATTOM, KERALA IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 7, page no. pp129-134, July-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1807267.pdf