The advocacy group Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) has sharply criticised the Union Budget 2026â27, calling it a âbudget sans kartavyaâ that weakens public welfare while favouring private corporations, even as inequality, climate risks...
The advocacy group, Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA), has criticised the proposed Draft Social Security Rules, 2025 and the Draft Code on Wages, alleging that they significantly dilute workersâ rights and weaken state accountability...
A new report by the advocacy group Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) has alleged that Indian corporations, both private and state-owned, are entwined with Israelâs economy of occupation and military campaigns in Gaza. Titled...
More than 100 civil society organisations and individuals â including Medha Patkar of Narmada Bachao Andolan, Shaktiman Ghosh of the National Hawkers Federation, Thomas Franco, former General Secretary of the All India Bank Officers...
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC)âs notification on July 11, 2025, relaxing the 2015 mandate for Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD) systems in coal-based thermal power plants (TPPs) has drawn sharp criticism...
Indiaâs rising unemployment continues to cast a shadow over its much-touted economic ascent, with official data revealing that the jobless rate climbed to 5.6% in May 2025 from 5.1% the previous month. The worrying...
At a time when the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economyâs (CMIE’s) report claims an upward trend in employment in Indiaâs labour market with 15 million people entering the workforce, senior economists have sought to...
Even as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) announced its long-awaited review of its Project-affected Peopleâs Mechanism at its annual meeting in Egypt 25-26 September 2023, a new research, published by Recourse, Inclusive Development...
As many as 70 peopleâs movements, trade unions and civil society organisations (CSOs)* have asserted that Indiaâs biggest ever coal mine auction, announced in November last year âwill aggravate climate crisisâ and âis against...
Counterview Desk The Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA), a Delhi-based advocacy group, commenting on the Union budget 2020-21, has has called it a case of missing wood for the trees, pointing out, Finance Minister...
A new civil society note has questioned the operations of the Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), a multilateral development bank that aims to support the building of infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region, seeking...
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...
It is being emphasised quite often that the infrastructure sector is a crucial driver for the Indian economy. The sector would be responsible for propelling Indiaâs overall development and enjoys intense focus from the...
The resignation of the World Bank President Jim Yong Kim was an unexpected development given the fact that he had three more years to complete his tenure. Resignations at such a high level after bidding for...
A public statement, released jointly by Soumya Dutta of the All-India Bank Officersâ Confederation, Priya Dharshini of the Centre for Financial Accountability, Madhuresh Kumar of the National Alliance of Peopleâ Movements, and Gautam Mody...
