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Abstract
The objective of the research paper to study the present trends in growth rate, prescribed lending targets and disparities in priority sector lending and NPAs. The significant relationship and degree of association between lending and NPAs from the year 2004 to 2017 has also been worked out. The various statistical tools used in the paper to analyze the data are exponential growth rate, co-efficient of variation, t-test and co-efficient of correlation. The growth of priority sector lending was quite lower on the one hand, whereas, NPAs growth was very higher on the other hand in public sector banks in relation to the private sector banks.