How mandatory Aadhaar authentication leads to exclusion of the marginalised from PDS
Issue highlights a systemic failure that undermines constitutional guarantees and perpetuates hardship for the most vulnerable segments of society.
वायेबिलिटी गैप फंडिंग से आसान होगी बैटरी आधारित ऊर्जा संग्रहण की राह?
बिजली उपलब्ध न होने की स्थिति में आप सभी ने अपने मोबाईल फोन या इलेक्ट्रिक उपकरणों को चार्ज करने के लिए पावर बैंक का इस्तेमाल किया होगा। ऐसे ही पावर बैंक्स अब आपके घरों...
How NHM Budget Cuts Directly Hit ASHAs, Impact Public Healthcare
By ensuring the financial well-being of lakhs of ASHA workers, India can unlock the full potential of NHM and strengthen the public healthcare system.
Insurance firms lure bank employees with iPhones, foreign jaunts, kickbacks to push sales
Driven by illegal incentives, bank executives compel their staff to sell insurance anyhow, with customers paying the price in the form of unwanted policies.
സാമ്പത്തിക പ്രതിസന്ധിയില് മുങ്ങുമോ കേരള മോഡല്?
സാമ്പത്തിക പ്രതിസന്ധിയെക്കുറിച്ച് വലിയ ചര്ച്ചകള് തുടങ്ങും മുമ്പ് ഖജനാവിലെ ഞെരുക്കം ആദ്യം ബാധിക്കുന്നത് ആരെയെന്ന് തിരിച്ചറിയേണ്ടതുണ്ട്.
Announcing Smitu Kothari Fellows – 2023
Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) is happy to announce recipients of the 6th Smitu Kothari Fellowship for young writers. The 7 recipients for 2023 come from diverse backgrounds and experiences, and hail from different...
स्मितु कोठारी फ़ेलोशिप 2023
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 छठी स्मितु कोठारी...
6th Smitu Kothari Fellowship 2023 Announcement
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 2023.
The mismatch in land demand vs land policy in West Bengal’s tea gardens
This is the first in a two-part series on how workers, who have been toiling for decades in tea gardens, remain deprived of their basic rights and how the government’s lackadaisical attitude to this...
What Puducherry tells us about how Union Territories undermine federalism
The case of Puducherry shows us how Union Territories, as pockets of arbitrary power, enable an authoritarian role for the Union government while trampling upon the core of federalism and democracy. In recent years,...
Pollution control: Amendments to Water Act is a greenwashing attempt
The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) proposed amendments to several environmental laws in July 2022, including the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974. The amendments aimed to reduce...
States cessed out
Cesses collected in early independent India were intended to aid the development of specific sectors. The different finance commissions from the Fourth Finance Commission disallowed the inclusion of cesses to the devolution pool as...
Black hole of public finance: Unequal fiscal burden on citizens
73% of the wealth generated in India in 2017 went to the richest 1%, while the poorest half of the population saw only a 1% increase in their wealth.
In Nagaland, Despite An Act To Protect Street Vendors, Women Vendors Struggle For Basic Amenities
The Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014 aims to protect livelihood rights and social security of street vendors but its implementation has been sluggish, putting street vendors at...
Announcing Smitu Kothari Fellows – 2022 (Three Month Fellowship)
Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) is happy to announce recipients of the 5th Smitu Kothari Fellowship for young writers.
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