India’s waste-to-energy paradigm
A POLICY, ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE Over the last few decades, the volume and toxicity of waste being produced in India have been increasing exponentially. A major cause has been the increased use and...
Understanding Deregulation, Privatisation & Economic Reforms: What derailed the Indian economy?
The derailment began in 1991, with the World Bank, an IMF loan, and the liberalisation, privatisation, and globalisation agenda.
Is SBI getting Privatised?
Arvind Panagariya and Poonam Gupta have come up with a demand that all public sector banks except the State Bank of India should be privatised.
A NITI Aayog-Commissioned Report Unveils the Hypocrisy of Modi Govt’s ‘Climate Concerns’
The report seems to only focus on guilt tripping the judiciary by mechanistically enumerating immediate economic losses owing to the stalling and closures effected by rulings. It is symptomatic of the urge of the...
Indian Economy in Shambles-What is to be done?
RBI has downgraded India’s growth projection to 9.5% from 10.5%. World Bank projects it at 8.3%. Actually, it may be worse. This is at the backdrop of GDP growth of a negative 7.3%. Last year,...
Privatization through Asset Monetization
While the earlier attempt to monetize public assets initiated first in 1993 to monetize unutilized and surplus land assets, had come a cropper following resistance by state governments, the state governments wanted a share...
Indian Movements/CSOs Submit Comments on NITI Aayog’s Draft of National Energy Policy
A group of civil society organisations, which has reviewed, and analysed the 2017 draft of the National Energy Policy (NEP), submitted its comments and suggestions from the financial perspective for improving the draft of...