Patna, Oct. 25 -- IDFC FIRST Bank has topped Bihar's first-ever scientific assessment of banks' performance, scoring 74 out of 100 points, while State Bank of India (SBI) and several other major lenders have been placed in the red zone, according to an assessment conducted by the state government.

The banks have been evaluated on a 100-point performance index and classified into three categories green, yellow and red based on their scores.

Banks scoring 50 points or above have been placed in the green zone. Besides IDFC FIRST Bank, Jammu and Kashmir Bank and RBL Bank scored 68 points each, followed by HDFC Bank (65), Bank of Baroda (64), Ujjivan Small Finance Bank (63), Punjab and Sind Bank (58), Bihar Gramin Bank (57), Bank of Maharashtr...