• M.MURUGAPERUMAL

Banking sector is one of the biggest money control government sectors in India. It plays an important role in the Indian economy. Like other sectors, banking sector has its responsibility to protect environment. To fulfill this responsibility, the banking sector creating awareness of green banking. The concept of green banking is a new concept. It helps in reducing the useful of banking, process burden and energy. Green banking is an environmental friendly system that has the potential to increase customer satisfaction and awareness as well as performance of the banks. The main objective of this paper is to know about the initiatives taken by the banking sector and to conduct a SWOT analysis about the banking sector regarding green banking activities. The researcher selected Andhra Bank, Bank of India, Canara Bank, Indian Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, State Bank of India, and UCO Bank. Statistical tools such as mean, correlation, chi-square, standard deviation, and analysis of variance, t test were employed. It is concluded that banks are taking new initiatives of different green banking.

Green banking, SWOT analysis, environmental sustainability, e-banking, etc.

"GREEN BANKING PRACTICES OF THE SELECT NATIONALIZED BANKS IN SALEM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.85-89, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBP06017.pdf

"GREEN BANKING PRACTICES OF THE SELECT NATIONALIZED BANKS IN SALEM", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp85-89, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBP06017.pdf