Debit cards transactions increased by 46.5 % because of the increase in ATMs chains.

Most of the banks issues ATM for their saving account holders for withdrawing easy cash from ATM. Now active debit card goes to 22.8 cr while the credit card was just 1.8 cr.

SBI stood at no.1 with largest depositor base in India, SBI issued 8 cr debit cards, No.2 is ICICI Bank with 1.65 cr, 3rd is HDFC 1.31 cr, In credit card bazaar, HDFC at No.1 with over .5 crore active credit cards followed by ICICI Bank, SBI, Citibank and standard chartered. Calculate your emi with EMI Calculator

RBI data shows, the value of transactions at domestic ATMs using debit cards to be Rs 9,48,346 crore across 398.40 crore transactions in the March 2010-February 2011 period, while domestic ATM-based credit card transactions were worth just Rs 934 crore across 0.19 crore transactions.