1 Bacterial foraging trained wavelet neural networks: Application to bankruptcy prediction in banks Project Report Institute for Research and Development in Banking Technology (IDRBT) Road No.1, Castle Hills ,Masab Tank, Hyderabad-500057 Project Supervisor: Dr. V. Ravi (Assistant Professor,IDRBT Submitted by: Paramjeet(07HS2004) 2 nd year Student Integrated M. Sc. in Economics Department of Humanities and Social Sciences IIT Kharagpur Kharagpur West Bengal 721302