Booklet: Reflections on the Union Budget 2018-19 from the Margins
Union Budget 2018-19: Issues of Marginalised Sections
Banking on Accountability and Transparency
Burdened with the ever-increasing non-performing assets (NPAs) and saddled with its provisioning, it is common knowledge now that Public Sector Banks (PSBs) have suffered enormous losses and thus, are in a crisis. The current...
कोयला सेक्टर में भारतीय बैंकों का कर्ज
भारत की पावर कम्पनियो को मिला जनवरी 2014 से सितम्बर 2017 के बीच 3.79 लाख करोड से भी अधिक का कर्ज। विदेशी व्यवसायिक बैकों ने भारत की पावर कम्पनियो मे किया 84,206 करोड का...
Citizens Demanding their MPs to Repeal FRDI
Concerned citizens are drawing the attention of the members of the Parliament towards serious implications of the Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill 2017 on the individual depositors and the banking sector at...
PSBs Must Stop Minimum Account Balance Requirement
Public Statement Penalizing for Poverty – Public Sector Banks Should Stop Extorting Money Over Minimum Account Balance (MAB) Requirement It was highly shocking to learn that State Bank of India (SBI) had levied Rs...
Will the RBI Solve the NPA Problem?
Five years ago, the All India Bank Officers’ Association, presented a presentation to our Bank Management titled NPA-Never Permit an Avalanche. This helped a lot to reduce NPAs of smaller amount but the large...
Forget lessons from the past, Arun Jaitley’s bank recapitalisation even buried a July audit report
Hailed as a “big-bang move” by bankers, the government’s plan to recapitalise public sector banks with Rs 2.1 lakh crores is deemed to hold magical powers that will help turn around their financial situations....
Monsoon session of the Parliament: An overview
Maju Varghese The Parliament met from July 17 to August 11, 2017. The election of the president and vice-president of India took place during this session. The new vice-president, M Venkaiah Naidu, presided over...
Communities affected by Tata Mundra rejects ADB’s Annual Monitoring Report
Report subverts the real issues while focusing only on the frivolous ones August 25, 2017, Kutch, Gujarat: Communities affected by the Tata Mundra (Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd – CGPL) coal power plant in Kutch...
India’s Thermal Power Projects are Making Even our Public-Sector Banks Sick
We all know of the killing impacts of coal based power plants – from the massive air pollution, from water contamination and from the dirty coal mines. As per the “State of Global Air...
India’s Investments Abroad: How Accountable Are We!
For Indian corporations, the grass seems to be getting greener the other side. Investments and acquisitions abroad have been the hallmark of Indian corporations the past decade and a half. While acquisitions of Jaguar...
The corruption in the power sector is in the tune of over one lakh crore: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
August 23, 2017, New Delhi: “The corruption in the power sector is in the tune of over one lakh crore,” said senior journalist and author Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. The former editor of EPW and...
Booklet: Big Pie – Analysis of Major Sectors’ Share in NPAs
New Report, looking into the share of particular sectors -in particular, power, steel infrastructure
ADB’s Annual Monitoring Report on Tata Mundra rejected: Press Statement
Press Statement: 22 .8.2017 ADB’s Annual Monitoring Report on Tata Mundra rejected: Report subverts the real issues while focusing only on the frivolous ones Kutch, Gujarat: Communities affected by the Tata Mundra (Coastal Gujarat Power...
What is Threatening Public Sector Banks in India?
It is an acknowledged fact that the Indian banking system is facing an unprecedented crisis. The problem of bad loans and the need for a capital infusion, drastic changes in financial policies, new legislation...
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