कोराड़ी थर्मल पावर : कोयले से बिजली, बिजली से राखड़ और राखड से तबाही

पिछले महीने, 16 जुलाई 2022 को सुबह हुई दुघर्टना में, 1974 में शुरू हुए (47 वर्षीय) महाराष्ट्र के नागपुर स्थित ‘कोराड़ी थर्मल पावर स्टेशन’ के राख-तालाब का एक हिस्सा टूट गया और उसमें जमा हुआ पानी और राख गावों में, नदी-नहर, पीने के पानी के...

Read more July 25, 2022 at 11:20 am Deepmala Patel

GST has lived up to its nickname – Gabbar Singh Tax | The Money Trail

From a simple and cheap tax, GST has metamorphosed into a tax on everything. Nothing happened as expected since its inception.

Windfall tax on corporations goes as 5% GST on food items kicks in

In keeping with its anti-people and pro-corporate tax policy, the Central government withdrew the windfall tax on oil exports on July 19th – 19 days after it was imposed – with effect from July...

Read more July 21, 2022 at 12:26 pm Prasanna Mohanty

World Bank Approves $245 Million Loans to Modernize Indian Railways

Infrastructure finance update for the month of June primarily focuses on three sectors, namely, railways, roads and highways and private investment.

Read more July 18, 2022 at 1:35 pm Shivani Dwivedi

RE Matters | June 2022

𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠 & 𝑉𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑅𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐸𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 Here is our monthly newsletter on Renewables, RE Matters, from the Centre for Financial Accountability. An extension of CFA’s work to understand and critically analyse the global energy...

Energy Finance Conference – 2021

ThemeHow Clean is Green Financing?Understanding the National and International Landscape, Investors & its Efficacy Day 1: December 14, 2021Adaptation, Loss and Damage – COP26 and the Money Trail Meena Raman, Third World Network Topic:...

A NITI Aayog-Commissioned Report Unveils the Hypocrisy of Modi Govt’s ‘Climate Concerns’

The report seems to only focus on guilt tripping the judiciary by mechanistically enumerating immediate economic losses owing to the stalling and closures effected by rulings. It is symptomatic of the urge of the...

Read more July 14, 2022 at 3:54 pm Anirban Bhattacharya

[Webinar] What does India need to meet its 2030 renewable energy targets?

As our understanding about the clean energy sector grows, it becomes clear that unlike in the fossil-fuel-based energy projects, in the renewable energy sector, there is a better synergy between policymakers and the industry....

Read more July 14, 2022 at 12:12 pm Mongabay

Lies, Despair and a Grotesque Inequality Plagues Indian Economy Today

We witnessed an infantile jubilance on the part of the government since last year about a “record recovery” from the pandemic. Finance Ministry’s report claimed that armed with necessary macro and micro growth drivers, India...

Read more July 12, 2022 at 4:56 pm Anirban Bhattacharya

LIC should run the IDBI bank and not some fortune seekers

In the USA right now, roadshows by our government to sell IDBI Bank are happening, soliciting prospective buyers.

Read more July 11, 2022 at 7:10 pm Thomas Franco

वापस आया बिजली संशोधन बिल | हमारा पैसा हमारा हिसाब

किसानों के लंबे आंदोलन की वजह से बिजली बिल को वापस ले लिया गया था। लेकिन अब सरकार इसे पार्लियामेंट के अगले सत्र में वापस लाना चाहती है।

Developing countries lost in WTO; a story of ditching & backstabbing | On Second Thought

All hopes of relaxing patent laws for Covid vaccines were lost in the 12th Ministerial Conference of WTO held in Geneva. Before the conference, there were high expectations for the proposal piloted by India...

The Electricity Amendment Bill is back. Why should we worry? | The Money Trail

Dropping the Electricity Amendment Bill was one of the conditions for withdrawing the farmer’s struggle. Yet the government is bringing it back. Filled with a bunch of dangerous proposals, the bill will shut shop...

स्मितु कोठारी फ़ेलोशिप 2022

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 स्मितु कोठारी फ़ेलोशिप...

Smitu Kothari Fellowship 2022 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 2022.