Pocket Money

Briefs on what they kept from you about your money this week!

Read more March 14, 2023 at 11:00 am CFA

स्मितु कोठारी फ़ेलोशिप

सेंटर फॉर फाइनेंशियल अकॉउंटेबिलिटी दिल्ली में स्थित एक संस्था है, जो भारत में वित्तीय जवाबदेही को मज़बूत करने और इसे बेहतर करने के लिये काम करती है। सेंटर फॉर फाइनेंशियल अकॉउंटेबिलिटी स्मितु कोठारी फ़ेलोशिप 2020...

Read more November 26, 2020 at 4:47 pm CFA

Smitu Kothari Fellowship- 2020

The Centre for Financial Accountability, a New-Delhi based organisation working to strengthen and improve financial accountability within India, invites applications for the Smitu Kothari Fellowship 2020. Started in 2018, the Fellowship is aimed towards encouraging...

Read more November 26, 2020 at 3:10 pm CFA

Under the cover of Covid, Govt plans to feed the farm sector to Corporates

Framers from the heart of green revolution states are on the roads facing the wrath of police lathis in midst of a pandemic. Numbered in thousands these distressed farmers are vociferously resisting against the...

Read more September 20, 2020 at 3:27 pm Mir Jalal

Three Cheers to Finance Matters!

This issue of Finance Matters marks the completion of three years since it was started.We thank you all its readers and those who contributed to it. To bring out a weekly newsletter has its own...

Read more July 4, 2020 at 11:27 am Joe Athialy

How the Govt Is Spinning Its Dysfunctional Nagpur Water Project as a Success Story

The Indian government’s PPP database indicates that infrastructure projects worth Rs 15,960.66 crore are listed under the ‘water’ sector, as of December 2019. Nagpur: The issue of water privatisation was once a hot potato...

Read more June 22, 2020 at 12:06 pm Nivedita Khandekar

Random Reflections- Bank Loans; Many a slip between the Cup and the Lip: AIMO Survey Results

All India Manufacturers’ Organisation founded by Bharat Ratna, Sir M. Visvesvaraya in 1941 represents the MSMEs in the country. With the initiative of Shri K.E Raghunathan, immediate past president of the organisation AIMO has...

Read more June 12, 2020 at 11:30 am Thomas Franco

Random Reflections- How Banks in India have contributed to Inequality?

As per Oxfam Inequality Report 2019, India’s bottom 60% have 4.8% of the wealth whereas the top 10% own 77.4% of the wealth. The bottom 60% have only 5.1% of wealth whereas the top...

अडानी पर मेहरबान शिवराज सरकार, 4 गुनी महंगी बिजली खरीदने का एमओयू कर मप्र को एक लाख करोड़ का नुक्सान पहुँचाने की तैयारी

मध्य प्रदेश सरकार ने अडानी पावर के साथ में 320 मेगावाट बिजली के पर्चेस एग्रीमेंट पर हस्ताक्षर किया है। सरकार ने इससे पहले ही 20331 मेगावाट बिजली खरीदने के पी.पी.ए. पर विभिन्न कंपनियों के...

MP govt’s power purchase agreement with Adanis at ‘highest ever contracted rate’

As many 28 civil rights and grassroots organizations, led by the National Alliance of People’s Movements (NAPM) and the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) have opposed the Madhya Pradesh government for entering into an agreement...

अडानी से बिजली खरीद समझौता कर किसकी वफादारी में लगी है शिवराज सरकार

सांख्यिकी और कार्यक्रम कार्यन्वयन मंत्रालय की 2019 की रिपोर्ट के अनुसार मध्यप्रदेश मे 20331 मेगावाट बिजली उत्पादन की क्षमता पहले से ही स्थापित है और उसकी मांग 9000 मेगावाट है, तो फिर मध्यप्रदेश सरकार...

Random Reflections- Is India’s Banking Sector Moving Towards a Melt Down and Financial Collapse?

Bank’s performance is always the reflection of the country’s economy. Though results are not out for the financial year 2019-20, analysis shows that many banks will be showing a huge loss. The last quarter...

Read more May 28, 2020 at 11:19 am Thomas Franco

A Financial Package with Little Relief Contents, Govt pushes Policy Reforms which Benefits Corporates but not the People

The financial package, amounting to Rs 20 lakh Crore and claimed to be 10% of the GDP was announced by the Prime Minister with much fanfare. Yet when details were announced by the Finance...

Read more May 26, 2020 at 7:48 pm Maju Varghese

New Political and Economic Models Needed

As the humans stayed inside for close to a month and a half since the announcement of lockdown in the wake of coronavirus threat, most people observe that life seems to have start breathing...

Read more May 20, 2020 at 1:03 pm I.d Khajuria and Sandeep Pandey

Social Activists and Economists Layout Vision for a Post Covid Economy

Press Release | May 19, 2020 New Delhi: “Thinking about an Ameere Rehka (wealth line) and not a Gareebi Rekha (poverty line) is the need of the hour”, noted social activist Medha Patkar said. She was speaking at...