From CoP to Coal Pit: A Tale of Climate Disconnect | Finance Matters, 15 November 2024 | Editors Note

Singrauli town in Madhya Pradesh is soon to be vanished as Coal India wants to mine the 600 MT of coal lying underneath. Wonder what will happen to Delhi if precious minerals are found...

Read more November 19, 2024 at 5:34 pm CFA

The Public-Private Partnership Story!

𝗨𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮’𝘀 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 ( 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟬𝘀 – 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁)! This timeline of PPPs in India traces the legal, fiscal, and policy developments that transform the landscape establishing it as a go-to model for...

Read more August 28, 2024 at 3:01 pm Nandinie Gupta, Gaurav Dwivedi, and Raktim Majumder

It is Our Money: Voices for public accountability in the India Social Forum

The India Social Forum was held in Patna from 2nd December to 4th December, was a confluence of social movements and civil society organizations from across India.

Read more December 12, 2023 at 5:32 pm CFA

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...