With the world facing a climate crisis, urgent action is required on many fronts, not least in ensuring adequate levels of climate finance to support mitigation and adaptation in the Global South. Campaigns to...
In September, the World Bank announced that it would discontinue the publication of the Doing Business Report and Ranking (DBR). This overdue decision came after a series of internal audits and an investigation that...
India's power ecosystem, which depends overwhelmingly on coal to meet the country's baseline electricity demand, is suddenly faced with an acute coal shortage. Even when the Coal Ministry tried to play down the coal...
The union government is bent upon privatising the Life Insurance Corporation of India. They stealthily announced an amendment to the LIC Act by making a statement in the Union Budget 2021 and made it...
यह कोर्स विशेष रूप से नागरिक समाज समूहों, कार्यकर्ताओं और मध्यम एवं छोटे शहरों के छात्रों को उनके आस-पास के क्षेत्र में इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर में बड़े पैमाने पर निवेश, शासन संरचना में परिवर्तन आदि के...
Post-Independence, there was reluctance to nationalise the various private airlines that were running very inefficiently. In 1950, an Air Transport Inquiry Committee (headed by Justice G.S. Rajyadhaksha) was appointed which went into a detailed...
News & Views on Renewable Energy September issue
In 2014, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, launched the Scheme for Development of Solar Parks and Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects to meet some of the targets for building large-scale solar-power plants in...
A few months ago, a news made headlines, doing rounds in the social media about how it was a matter of much shame that India had fallen behind Bangladesh on the metric of Per...
The Union Government has announced setting up of a Bad Bank (the name itself is bad), called the National Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd (NARCL). It will buy loans above Rs.500 crores from the banks....
CFA is seeking energetic, internet-savvy media interns to work part-time managing our social media accounts and creating content. Responsibilities: Post on CFA’s major social media profiles (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram) throughout the week,...
Renewable energy commitments of India have been in focus in the various government policies. India has seen major investments in technology research and development of various kinds of renewable energy. Tidal energy is one...
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a pipeline of assets the government is looking to monetise to collect about Rs 6 trillion to partly fund its ambitious infrastructure projects over four years ending 2024-25. The...
“The government is claiming they are giving only temporary rights for certain duration (through the National Monetisation Pipeline). The key question is how the government will repay this investment that the private companies have...
In a democracy, debates and discussions and are essential. Issues of governance are of vital importance. Parliament is meant to keep a check on the government by the people and for the people. But...
