Financially inclusive India! Are we?
The 2017 Global Findex Database of the World Bank Group portrays India in a remarkably favourable light owing to the sharp increase in the number of bank account holders in the country, but the...
Big Push for the Development of Hydropower in India
There has been a worldwide growth in hydropower development, with 31.5 GW new capacity installed in 2016. This figure includes 6.4 GW of pumped storage – nearly double the previous year – while there...
Modi Government Wrecking Public Sector Banks and the Indian Economy
Public Statement | April 27, 2018 After Demonetisation, now the Cash Crunch in ATMs: Modi Government Wrecking Public Sector Banks and the Indian Economy A Joint Statement In the past few weeks, ATMs across...
Demonetisation, cash crunch wreck banks, economy: Experts, activists
Nearly 100 major groups and several prominent experts have attacked the NDA government for the manner in which the banks and economy are being wrecked due to the impact of demonetisation followed by the...
The Privatisation of Public Sector Banks is not a Panacea
In the aftermath of the Rs. 12,000 crore fraud perpetrated by Nirav Modi, the critics of the Indian Banking system has launched into a fresh debate on the ownership structure of India’s Public Sector...
CSOs Ask AIIB’s India Executive Director to not to go Ahead on NIIF
To, Shri. M.M. Kutty Executive Director, India Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank March 14, 2018 Subject: AIIB’s proposed investment in National Investment and Infrastructure Fund Dear Shri M.M. Kutty, We are writing with regard to the AIIB’s...
We need to Talk about Corporate Accountability
Criticizing the people advocating privatization of the Public Sector Banks, Meera Nangia, Prof of Commerce, Delhi University, remarked, “We need to talk about Corporate Accountability and not just the accountability of Public Sector Banks.”...
Booklet: Tentacles of International Finance in India
This document is an effort to compile data of investments coming into India from MDBs, ExIm banks and other bilateral investments, to help understand the landscape of financing from these institutions and help to...
Huge Overlap in Investments by MDBs, ExIM Banks, and Bilaterals on Critical Sectors
Ever since the first lending from World Bank in 1949 worth $34 million to Indian Railways and the bilateral credit India received from the erstwhile USSR and USA in the early 50s, India has...
Press Release: Wilfully Letting go Wilful Defaulters of Bank Scams
Press Release | February 23, 2018 Wilfully Letting go Wilful Defaulters of Bank Scams New Delhi: A public meeting held here today has accused the Modi government of wilfully letting go wilful defaulters of...
RBI is an Accomplice in bringing the FRDI Bill
An article in Hindustan Times dated February 12, 2018, titled Reserve Bank Goes Back on its Opposition to the FRDI Bill claims that the Reserve Bank has retracted from its former position of three months...
Budgeting for Losses – NPAs, Recapitalisation and Budgetary Allocations
Recapitalization or capital infusion of Public Sector Banks from budgetary allocations has been making news for the past few years on a regular basis. In August 2015, the government under its Indradhanush framework announced...
Booklet: Reflections on the Union Budget 2018-19 from the Margins
Union Budget 2018-19: Issues of Marginalised Sections
Banking on Accountability and Transparency
Burdened with the ever-increasing non-performing assets (NPAs) and saddled with its provisioning, it is common knowledge now that Public Sector Banks (PSBs) have suffered enormous losses and thus, are in a crisis. The current...
कोयला सेक्टर में भारतीय बैंकों का कर्ज
भारत की पावर कम्पनियो को मिला जनवरी 2014 से सितम्बर 2017 के बीच 3.79 लाख करोड से भी अधिक का कर्ज। विदेशी व्यवसायिक बैकों ने भारत की पावर कम्पनियो मे किया 84,206 करोड का...
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