Time to press the panic button: Job loss is widespread and galloping
India has officially acknowledged that 62.5% of its population or 813.5 million people are extremely poor and need to be fed
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...
Budget 2021: ‘Blueprint to drive inequality’
Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) organized a Public Meeting titled, “Budget Like Never Before: A Critical Analysis of Budget 2021” on 11th February, 2021, which brought together an esteemed set of panellists covering Indian...
Random Reflections- Why Boycott Adani?
Gautam Adani is one of the most favoured of the ruling party especially the Prime Minister and the Home Minister. In 2014 elections Mr. Narendra Modi was going around the country in airplanes of...
Under the cover of Covid, Govt plans to feed the farm sector to Corporates
Framers from the heart of green revolution states are on the roads facing the wrath of police lathis in midst of a pandemic. Numbered in thousands these distressed farmers are vociferously resisting against the...
New Priority Sector norms – Favouring Rich and fleecing the poor
The Reserve Bank of India has released revised priority sector norms. A closer look shows how the government and RBI are tweaking the norms to favour the rich and fleece the poor. Already the...
A Financial Package with Little Relief Contents, Govt pushes Policy Reforms which Benefits Corporates but not the People
The financial package, amounting to Rs 20 lakh Crore and claimed to be 10% of the GDP was announced by the Prime Minister with much fanfare. Yet when details were announced by the Finance...
Social Activists and Economists Layout Vision for a Post Covid Economy
Press Release | May 19, 2020 New Delhi: “Thinking about an Ameere Rehka (wealth line) and not a Gareebi Rekha (poverty line) is the need of the hour”, noted social activist Medha Patkar said. She was speaking at...
In Telangana, free power policy for farmers will exact a steep environmental cost
Unless the state changes course quickly, its policies will hurt the medium, small and marginal farmer, who make up 85% of its agricultural sector. The people’s movements in Telangana that for six decades drove...
Random Reflections- Bankrupt Government Looting the Banks
New method Kissan Credit Card scheme to 9 crore PM-Kisan beneficiaries in 2 weeks. The Prime Minister had promised that they would not interfere with Banks. He had accused the previous government of doing...
Marie Antoinette’s Musings for Agriculture
Two decades ago any researcher studying the agrarian scenario could not have missed the near ubiquitous possession of Parle G biscuits by the footloose migrants driven by crisis to travel distant lands in search...
Pre Budget Musings
Starting with GDP, in the 2nd quarter of 2019-20 the real Gross Domestic Product (adjusted on base year price) of the country has been recorded at 4.5%, which is the lowest in last 6...
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...