कोविड महामारी और बुन्देलखण्ड का पलायन

लेख के शीर्षक में प्रयोग किए गए दो शब्द कोविड और बुन्देलखण्ड जैसे ही हमारे कानों को सुनाई देते हैं। वैसे ही हमारे कान चौकन्ने हो जाते हैं। दोनों शब्दों के सुनते ही मन-चिन्तन...

Read more May 11, 2021 at 3:43 pm Shivasheesh Tiwari

How was Banking in the Private Sector?

There were no public sector banks till 1955. Only on 1st July 1955 Imperial Bank of India was nationalised creating State Bank of India. It is important to know what was banking in our...

Read more May 8, 2021 at 12:05 pm Thomas Franco

Assam Fact Finding Report finds ‘Illegal’ Land Grab from Tribals for Solar Plant

Since March 2020, the indigenous people and Adivasi farmers from Mikir Bamuni Grant village in Samaguri Revenue Circle, Nagaon, Assam, have been up in arms against the alleged "forceful" takeover of their agricultural lands...

Read more May 4, 2021 at 1:14 pm Prudhviraj Rupawat

Whither Coal?

The Ministry of Coal (MoC), through a notification on June 18, 2020, officially launched the process of auctioning coal mines, thus opening up the Indian coal mining sector to commercial operations by the private...

Read more April 30, 2021 at 11:29 am Nikhil Varghese Mathew

Beyond the Frenzy Sale of PSUs!

The government wants to sell the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), which is worth about Rs 34 trillion (USD45 billion). The stage has been set with increasing foreign direct investment (FDI) in insurance...

Read more April 29, 2021 at 7:10 pm Edwin

State-Owned Banks: Do We Need Them Anymore?

As an essential part of the financial system, banks’ role in India’s ambitious goal of becoming a $5 trillion economy has become a topic of intense debate. Significant reforms in scheduled commercial banks, mainly...

Read more April 29, 2021 at 4:47 pm Aswathi Nair

Business Correspondents: Modern Day Slavery in Banking Sector

As per RBI Data, as on March 2020 there were 5,41,175 business correspondents in villages and 6,35,046 business correspondents in urban areas. So there are 11,76,221 Customer Service Points covered by the business correspondents...

Read more April 29, 2021 at 4:16 pm Thomas Franco

कोरोना वायरस: ठेका श्रमिकों की बढ़ीं मुश्किलें, ऐसे कर रहे गुजारा

हमारे देश में बिजली पैदा करने का प्रमुख संसाधन कोयला है, पर धरती की छाती चीरकर उसे निकालने वाले मजदूरों की बदहाली जहां-की-तहां है। पिछले साल कोविड-19 के कारण देश भर में लगे ‘लॉकडाउन’...

Read more April 29, 2021 at 3:35 pm Rohit Shivhare

LIC IPO – Killing The Golden Goose

Life insurance forms a vibrant part of the financial sector and plays a vital role in the national economy. It mobilizes small savings of the people, converts it into Capital, and makes this Capital...

Challenges Before the Banking Sector Today

The Public Sector Banks have been facing challenges since 1991 with the so-called reform process. Starting from the Narasimhan Committee to P.J. Nayak Committee has recommended reducing Government share. They want banks to be...

Read more April 26, 2021 at 1:20 pm Thomas Franco

New DFI for Infrastructure Projects in India

Last month the government introduced the Development Financial Institution (DFI) Bill in Lok Sabha to boost funding for infrastructure projects. The bill seeks to establish the National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development to...

Read more April 26, 2021 at 1:01 pm Shivani Dwivedi

Can Bank Privatisation be stopped?

When the financial resolution and deposit insurance Bill was introduced in Parliament many thought that the mighty Government will get it passed. But the campaign against it, not only by Trade Unions but also...

Read more March 26, 2021 at 3:27 pm Thomas Franco

Why Public should Oppose Privatisation of Public Sector Banks!

Around 10 Lakh bank employees of Public Sector Banks (PSBs) are protesting for two days against the proposal to privatise (sell) two Public Sector Banks. Here, I try to explain why Public Sector Banks...

Read more March 26, 2021 at 3:11 pm Dawa Sherpa

Privatization through Asset Monetization

While the earlier attempt to monetize public assets initiated first in 1993 to monetize unutilized and surplus land assets, had come a cropper following resistance by state governments, the state governments wanted a share...

Read more March 26, 2021 at 12:52 pm Dinesh Abrol

Turbulent Weather: Airport Authority of India Strike

Just as the bank unions have called to intensify their protest action against bank privatization, multiple unions of the Airport Authority of India (AAI) had given a one-day dharna call for the 31st of...

Read more March 26, 2021 at 12:19 pm Priya Dharshini

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