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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

Read more January 13, 2023 at 2:44 pm Prasanna Mohanty

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

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...

Read more February 12, 2021 at 1:51 pm Nishank

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...

Read more December 16, 2020 at 2:31 pm Thomas Franco

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...

Read more September 20, 2020 at 3:27 pm Mir Jalal

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...

Read more September 19, 2020 at 10:18 pm Thomas Franco

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...

Read more May 26, 2020 at 7:48 pm Maju Varghese

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...

Read more May 19, 2020 at 5:59 pm CFA

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...

Read more April 1, 2020 at 12:25 pm Rajesh Serupally

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...

Read more February 25, 2020 at 11:18 pm Thomas Franco

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...

Read more February 18, 2020 at 2:12 pm Vijoo Krishnan

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...

Read more January 30, 2020 at 4:04 pm Soumya Dutta

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

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