Amaravati: World Bank Refusing to Share Public Grievances on Land Pooling Scheme

A new report, prepared by the advocacy group Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA), New Delhi, has taken strong exception to the World Bank refusing to share its independent assessment of the Land Pooling Scheme...

Read more May 18, 2019 at 10:57 am Counterview

Over 250 CSOs Ask Governments and IFIs to Stop Funding Hydropower

“We live in an age of urgency… We cannot remain silent onlookers while corporate profiteers, financiers, and their allies peddle false solutions for addressing climate change and implementing sustainable development,” declared the joint statement...

Read more May 17, 2019 at 7:07 pm Ankit Agrawal

Snippets from the World of National Financial Institutions – May, 2019

More NPAs to haunt banks with IL&FS Exposures: The NCLT has asked the banks to consider their exposure to ILFS as NPAs. Earlier NCLT has restricted banks from declaring their exposure to IL&FS prompting...

Read more May 17, 2019 at 3:58 pm Priya Dharshini

Statement: The False Promises of Hydropower

A Joint Statement The False Promises of Hydropower: How dams fail to deliver the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals by Civil Society Organizations on occasion of the 2019 World Hydropower Congress...

Read more May 15, 2019 at 2:15 pm CFA

Report: Encroachment of Nature, People and Livelihoods: A Case of Amaravati Capital City (2014-2019)

This brief report aims to throw light on the critical lapses and breaches which have been committed during the design, pre-appraisal and Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment – Environment and Social Management Framework (SESA-ESMF)...

Read more May 14, 2019 at 10:32 am Tani Alex

अडानी के घाटे को जनता की जेब पर थोपती सरकार

लोकसभा चुनाव के बीच, केद्रिंय विधुत विनियामक आयोग ने अडानी मुद्रां पावर परियोजना की 2000 मेगावाट यूनिट का तय टैरिफ 2.80 रुपए से बढाकर 3.10 रुपए करने का आदेश जारी कर दिया है। इसका...

Read more May 10, 2019 at 3:41 pm Rajesh Kumar

CSOs Criticise RBI for not having a guideline on Bank Charges

Criticising the latest Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) annual Banking Ombudsman Report, which revealed dissatisfaction among 25 per cent customers, Financial Accountability Network (FAN India), has issued a public statement chiding RBI for being...

Read more May 10, 2019 at 11:40 am Ankit Agrawal

Don’t Fleece the Poor

Banks act as financial intermediaries between depositors and borrowers. It is the public money, deposited in the form of term deposit (fixed deposits) and time deposit (saving and current accounts) which banks use for...

Read more May 10, 2019 at 10:16 am Hardnews

Small Finance Banks Are Squeezing the Common Man: CP Krishnan

“Modi government has granted licenses to 20 small finance banks. The successive central governments have undermined the significance of the public sector banks. Granting license to small finance banks is to...

Read more April 30, 2019 at 4:52 pm Newsclick.in

The Crisis In The Banking Sector Is A Created One: Priya Dharshini

The crisis in the banking sector is a created one, where the commercial banks have been forced to lend on a large scale to the development projects and to the corporates and which has...

Read more April 28, 2019 at 10:56 am Priya Dharshini

Coal-Ravaged Indian Fishers Take to the Supreme Court

WILD ANIMALS ONCE RAN AMONG the acacia trees outside Navinal, one of many small villages hugging the Gulf of Kutch–an inlet on India’s northwest coast. Gajendra Singh Jadeja remembers them well: Cattle foraged for...

Read more April 26, 2019 at 6:12 pm Sierra Magazine

Snippets from the World of International Financial Institutions – April, 2019

The New World Bank President The annual Spring Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was held in Washington DC this year with...

Read more April 26, 2019 at 1:24 pm Maju Varghese

Over 50 Organisations From The World Ask Japan To Stop Funding Coal

In full-page advertisements in the Financial Times and Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest daily newspaper, 50 reputed organisations, working on environment and accountability related issues, from across the world have appealed to Shinzo Abe to...

Read more April 25, 2019 at 2:02 pm Ankit Agrawal

किताब: भारत में आर्थिक तबाही

पिछले साढ़े चार वर्षों में, देश एक बड़ी सामाजिक-राजनीतिक और आर्थिक उथल-पुथल से गुजरा है जैसा पहले कभी नहीं था। हाल के इतिहास में कभी भी एक साथ देश के इतने बड़े समूह को...

Read more April 25, 2019 at 11:12 am Thomas Franco

विश्वबैंक जैसे अंतरराष्ट्रीय संगठनों से टकराते जनांदोलन 

विश्वयुद्ध के बाद ब्रिटेन के ब्रेटेनवुड में खादी की गई वैश्विक वित्तीय संस्थाओं की ताक़त एक ज़माने में बेतेरह बढ़ी थी। वे अपनी मनमर्ज़ी के विकास की अवधारणा को दुनियाभर पर थोप सकती थीं।...

Read more April 20, 2019 at 5:28 pm Subah Savere