Tata Mundra: A Project Awaiting Settlement
Tata Mundra Project (Coastal Gujarat Power Limited ā CGPL – a subsidiary of Tata Power), is a 4,000 megawatt power plant developed on over 1250 hectares of land near the village Tunda-Wand, in Kutch...
Response to the Cost and Benefit Analysis of the Asian Development Bank Accountability Mechanism by the Asian Development BankĀ
At the very outset, we would like to appreciate ADB in doing this analysis and sharing the information publicly. The costs We are astonished by the fact that $5 mn (2023 prices) was spent...
Case Against IFC at US Supreme Court: Disappointed with the outcome; Quest for Justice Continues
Landmark corporate accountability case resulted in critical reforms for the World Bankās lending arm. April 26, 2022 New Delhi:Ā Last evening India time, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition from a fishing community...
Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz and Others Urge the US Supreme Court to Review World Bank Group Immunity in the Tata Mundra Finance Case
This week, prominent economic, legal, diplomatic, and civil society experts ā including Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and former Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank ā submitted amicus briefs urging...
ADB’s Compliance of its Safeguard Policies in the Tata Mundra Project
The northern coast of the Gulf of Kutch has been witnessing large-scale industrialization for the past two decades while a very large Special Economic Zone is also situated in the vicinity. Among several polluting...
The World Bank Groupās Uncounted
The Tata group, one of Indiaās largest conglomerates, promised to be a good neighbor when it took on the job of building the nationās first āultra megaā coal-fired power plant. The plan was to build...
Tata Mundra: Case against IFC dismissed in the lower court. Will move appeal soon
On August 24 evening, a federal court ruled that the World Bank Group cannot be sued for any damage caused by its lendingādespite last yearās Supreme Court ruling in the same case that these...
Another breach at sasan UMPP; Will financiers be held accountable?
Local group Srijan Lokhit Samiti along with other CSOās write to the US Exim Bank demanding accountability for financing the disastrous Project On April 10, 2020, the fly ash dam for the Sasan coal...
A Case which made World Bank Legally Accountable
On February 27, a year has passed since the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in a 7-1 judgment that World Bank does not enjoy absolute immunity. The judgment shook the foundations of...
First Anniversary of a Landmark Judgment
A year back, on February 27 2019, in a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the World Bank is not above the law. For details and more information: https://www.cenfa.org/projects-in-focus/tata-mundra-ultra-mega-project/
US Federal Court Rules in Favour of IFC in Tata Mundra Case: Fishworkers and Farmers to Challenge Decision.
Press Statement | February 19, 2020 US Federal Court Rules in Favour of IFC in Tata Mundra Case: Fishworkers and Farmers to Challenge Decision. IFC hides it shame & guilt behind technicalities of jurisdiction...
Too Many Costs for Too Little: The Story of TATA Mundra
Mundra, Gujarat January 13, 2020: TATA power has announced to the Union Ministry of Power that it may be forced to stop operating its imported coal-based Mundra ultra-mega power project after February, 2020. Experts...
Too Many Costs for Too Little: The Story of Tata Mundra
Statement in response to news reports that the company has written to the Ministry of Power that they will stop operating the Mundra project from February 2020. Mundra, Gujarat January 13, 2020: Tata power...
Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project: A decade of disemPOWERing communities
Almost a decade after the construction for the Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project and eight years since the operations of the project started, a revisit to Mundra tells the story of the destruction...
MASS & CFA Awarded Chico Mendes Award 2019
Machimar Adhikaar Sangharsh Sangathan (MASS) and Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) get Chico Mendes Award 2019 Statement by CFA Itās an honour to be selected for the Chico Mendes Award 2019, shared with Machimar...
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