Explanation:

There is one bank branch for the population of eleven thousand in the country.

At present the total number of bank branches in Bihar is 7653, out of which the number of rural branches is 3699, the number of semi urban branches is 2333 and the number of urban branches is 1621.

Even now, about one third of the panchayats in Bihar do not have branches of banks. The ratio of banks per lakh population in Bihar is 7.39 while the ratio of banks at the national level is 12.30. The average ATM usage in Bihar is only 6.4 per lakh population.