The document describes a study comparing the risk positions of Canara Bank and HDFC Bank. It outlines the hypotheses being tested related to capital adequacy ratio, liquidity risk, and credit risk. It then describes the secondary data sources used, sampling design which focuses on these two banks, and statistical techniques like t-tests that will be used for analysis. Key variables that will be compared include capital adequacy ratio, debt-equity ratio, advances to assets, and government securities to investments. Historical data is also presented for these variables for both banks.