Energy Matters | May, June 2023
Here is another issue of Energy Matters, bringing to you the latest updates from the energy sector along with analysis and impacts, politics, investments, and science of the emerging developments in the sector.
What’s happening in Thermal and Renewable Energy Sector?
Despite the Indian Government’s claim to reduce the use of coal and thermal power plants, various new coal mines have recently started commercial operations.
India’s climate disaster moment has arrived!
Flood alerts have replaced the heatwave alert within weeks. The climate disaster is no more a distant threat for India. It's time to give more attention to terms like carbon emission and global warming....
G 20: An Explainer
How and why G20 is not for the global south and for all those who are poor https://www.cenfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/G%2020.mp4
Wealth tax: Keep it simple, tax the 177 dollar billionaires in India
India remains a low-middle-income country, and the bulk of the population ranks low compared to most countries in most indicators of conditions of life.
Building a rights-based welfare State in India
Political formations in India have generally come to accept the idea of economic transfers to the poor. The Congress made it a major plank in the recent Karnataka elections. Even the BJP, which favours...
New Global Financial Pact: A Summit Without Substance
Despite issuing an open letter communicating the significance of the NGFP summit, most leaders of the global north did not attend the event.
Civil Society Consultation on India-EU Free Trade Agreement
India is involved in numerous bilateral and regional free trade agreements (FTAs). Free Trade and investment agreements have a significant impact on overall economic activities and in many ways impact the government’s ability to...
Time to Wind up National Company Law Tribunals
The Financial Stability Report (FSR) released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has certain very damaging revelations. It is surprising that RBI gave thumbs up to them and claimed that non-performing assets (NPAs)...
It’s time to tax the wealthy and bridge inequalities
By all accounts, India is considered one of the most unequal countries in the world, and inequality has been on the rise in recent years.
Why are Indian millionaires moving abroad?
6,500 high-net-worth individuals are going to leave India this year, as per the latest Henley Private Wealth Migration Report. Last year, 7500 millionaires left India.
RBI’s ‘freebies’ for wilful defaulters makes a mockery of the banking system
Anirban Bhattacharya & Pranay Raj A Reserve Bank of India statement on June 8 has set off a raging debate. The bank has allowed for write-offs and compromise settlements for even frauds and wilful...
EU – India FTA and Financial Liberalization
Even though India and the European Union (EU) are celebrating 60 years of bilateralism, it was only in 2007 during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s first tenure that a strategic partnership between the two parties...
अबकी बार राज्यों पर वार | हमारा पैसा हमारा हिसाब
केंद्र सरकार ने केरल की उधार लेने की क्षमता पर अनुचित प्रतिबंध लगाकर एक ही झटके में उससे लगभग 15000 करोड़ छीन लिए है। इस कारण निकट भविष्य में केरल गंभीर वित्तीय संकट में...
RBI FAQs – Hiding a pumpkin inside a bowl of Rice!
The RBI circular dated 8th June 2023, permitting public sector banks, private banks, small finance banks, co-operative banks and non-banking finance companies to have compromise settlements with willful defaulters
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