Tamilnadu Economic Survey and Budget

A model for the country and other states! We have seen many Union Economic Survey and Budget as well as State Budges. Kerala Budget especially by Dr. Thomas Issac used to have innovations and...

Read more March 18, 2025 at 11:55 am Thomas Franco

An appeal to SuPer SBI from a Common Citizen

SBI, the 218-year-old bank, the largest in the world in terms of number of branches and customers, which is a leader in housing loans, education loans, and many such areas, is conducting a massive...

Read more February 23, 2025 at 12:36 pm Thomas Franco

Maharashtra State Budget 2024-25 | An Analysis

Budget Allocation Analysis Based on % of Total Expenditure This analysis reviews the annual budget distribution of Maharashtra’s Tribal Component Scheme (TCS) across crucial sectors impacting tribal communities from 2020-21 to the projected budget...

Read more February 15, 2025 at 3:11 pm Amitanshu Verma, Anirban Bhattacharya, Nancy Pathak & Pranay Raj

26 नवंबर संविधान दिवस पर विशेषसंविधान सम्मत गांव गणराज्य की पुनर्स्थापना

समाज के गठन में अगर उत्पादन की पद्वति एक बुनियादी आधार है तो यह माना जा सकता है कि खेती ने मानव सभ्यता के विकास में मनुष्य को उसे स्थिरता दी और धीरे- धीरे...

Read more November 26, 2024 at 11:35 am Raj Kumar Sinha

छोटे किसानों की अनदेखी: भारतीय कृषि का अनसुलझा संकट

कृषि अर्थव्यवस्था के जानकार मानते हैं कि खेती को बरकरार रखने,विकसित करने और सबका पेट भरने की अधिकांश जिम्मेदारी छोटे और सीमांत किसान ही निभाते हैं। जहां 70% ग्रामीण परिवार अभी भी अपनी आय...

Read more September 9, 2024 at 6:42 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

India & Global Finance: An Annual Review (2023-24)

The first issue of India & Global Finance: An Annual Review for 2023-24 comes at a juncture where, on the one hand, India is flexing its muscle to be a global leader and on...

Read more March 21, 2024 at 11:52 am CFA

Nexus of energy and food is where the climate battle is currently, says Vandana Shiva

Speaking at the inaugural session of the 5th Energy Finance Conference in Chennai, she says agricultural systems that use more external energy will not be able to deal with the changing patterns of food...

Read more January 19, 2024 at 12:56 pm The Hindu

PM-Kisan: Who and how many are getting income support of Rs 6,000?

Surely, the Center doesn’t know; had that not been the case, it wouldn’t be giving multiple sets of data, all of which contradict each other. One true “master stroke” that helped the Modi government...

Read more December 2, 2022 at 4:31 pm Prasanna Mohanty

Securing Skilled Jobs for the Present and the Future

As the world recovers from the pandemic, and many across the country are trying to find their feet with gainful employment, a study released early this year by CMIE reveals that agriculture absorbed an additional 11...

Read more August 1, 2022 at 3:59 pm Bhargavi S. Rao

Why are you killing excellent institutions, Nirmala ji?

Every single institution built up during the last 75 years is either being weakened, strangulated or killed at a slow pace.

Read more May 2, 2022 at 1:22 pm Thomas Franco

India’s new farm laws mirror international financial institutions’ vision of agriculture

For more than 100 days, thousands of farmers in India have been in the streets protesting three new farm laws introduced in parliament. The new laws open the agriculture sector to reforms advocated by...

Read more March 19, 2021 at 1:36 pm Maju Varghese

Random Reflections: 51 Years of Bank Nationalisation – Was it a sin? A vision? A missed opportunity? & What’s today’s position?

Nationalisation of the banks which had deposits above Rs.50 Crores, covering almost 85% of the total deposits on 19th July 1969 was historic, dramatic and welcomed by majority of the people. Some described it...

Read more July 16, 2020 at 1:55 pm Thomas Franco

When the Wealth Creators are Invisibilised

At the first anniversary of the formation of the Department of Fisheries there is little to celebrate in the Budget 2020 from the point of view of traditional and small-scale fish workers who are...

Read more February 5, 2020 at 4:19 pm National Fishworkers Forum

Too Many Costs for Too Little: The Story of Tata Mundra

Statement in response to news reports that the company has written to the Ministry of Power that they will stop operating the Mundra project from February 2020. Mundra, Gujarat January 13, 2020: Tata power...

Read more January 13, 2020 at 3:13 pm CFA

Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana is a Big Scam: P Sainath

The NDA government’s Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (The Prime Minister’s Crop Insurance Scheme) is a bigger scam than even the Rafale scam, claimed renowned journalist and farmers issue activist P. Sainath earlier this...

Read more November 26, 2018 at 1:49 pm Ankit Agrawal