New Phase, Old Problems: Questioning the Human Cost of NTPC Gadarwara’s Expansion

The second stage of National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC) owned Gadarwara Thermal Power Plant located in Narsingpur district of Madhya Pradesh, 2*800 (1600 MW) is currently in process. The minutes of the March...

Read more October 28, 2024 at 4:51 pm Deepmala Patel

Putting just transition at the heart of solar power: A case study on India

India has set ambitious targets for renewable energy (RE). The Government of India set an ambitious target in 2015 of installing 175GW of renewable energy capacity by 2022. Since then, as part of the...

Read more October 16, 2024 at 3:20 pm Anitha Sampath

World Bank @ 80: Radical Restructuring, Not Reforms

The 80th anniversary of the World Bank is a good time to bury the arguments in favor of reforming the institution and strengthen the demand for radical restructuring. The past eight decades did not...

Read more October 15, 2024 at 11:48 am Joe Athialy

मध्यप्रदेश में अमृत सरोवर का यथार्थ

आजादी का अमृत महोत्सव काल में अमृत सरोवर (तालाब) योजना शुरू किया गया था। जिसमें देश के 28 राज्य और 5 केंद्र शासित प्रदेश शामिल थे। सभी जिलों में 75 अमृत सरोवर को विकसित...

Read more October 14, 2024 at 9:00 am Raj Kumar Sinha

Interrogating the World Bank @ 80 | Essay Competition

The Centre for Financial Accountability, a New Delhi-based organisation working to strengthen and improve financial accountability within India, invites students and researchers to participate in an essay competition on the topic of Interrogating the...

Read more October 10, 2024 at 4:29 pm CFA

Ministry of Finance Responds to MUDRA Loan Article

In response to the article published in Finance Matters last week, titled “MUDRA loan numbers – Biggest jumla by the Finance Minister” by Mr. Thomas Franco, Ministry of Finance & Corporate Affairs through their...

Read more October 9, 2024 at 5:40 pm Thomas Franco

To undo the deadly noose of loan apps, RBI’s occasional warnings won’t do

A new ecosystem based on loan apps has mushroomed across India’s financial landscape over a decade, preying on those abandoned by the formal banking sector. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently imposed a...

Read more September 30, 2024 at 3:50 pm Anirban Bhattacharya

Waste-to-energy plants may cause more pollution: NGOs

Waste-to-energy (WTE) plants, which are touted as the ‘magic solution’ to solve the solid waste management crisis in the city, are not all that safe for environment and public health, say activists from some...

Read more September 23, 2024 at 3:04 pm Padmaja J

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’s stark disparities have finally found voice in political discussions

Since the pandemic, the gap between rich and poor Indians has never been more evident. But inequality was never a public concern – until now. For much of the first half of the year,...

Read more September 9, 2024 at 9:25 am Anirban Bhattacharya & Nancy Pathak

174 Civil Society Organizations, Networks, and Activists Oppose Financing by IFC for Abellon Clean Energy’s Toxic, Pollution Waste-to-Energy Projects in Gujarat, India

PRESS RELEASE | 23.08.24 August 23, 2024 – A collective letter written by the Centre for Financial Accountability, International Accountability Project, National Hawkers Federation, GAIA-Asia Pacific, and Break Free From Plastics and endorsed by...

Read more August 23, 2024 at 3:29 pm CFA

वर्तमान आर्थिक गैर-बराबरी का मकड़जाल

देश आजादी के बाद समाजवादी आर्थिक - सामाजिक व्यवस्था की स्थापना के लिए संकल्प लिया था। इस संकल्प को पूरा करने संविधान निर्माता भीमराव आंबेडकर ने इसे संविधान के प्रस्तावना में स्थान दिया।

Read more August 19, 2024 at 12:50 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

Cost of Neglect: The Rising Toll of Train Accidents in India

The Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh (RRSK), established to enhance safety measures, has been abused for unnecessary purchases like foot massagers and furniture instead of essential safety upgrades.

Read more August 12, 2024 at 11:31 am Nancy Pathak

Corporate control of the country must go- Farmers are showing the way

During the year-long agitation in 2020-21, the farmers gave a call to boycott Ambani and Adani. Now they have given a call to Observe Corporate Quit India Day on 9th August 2024. They have...

Read more August 9, 2024 at 12:35 pm Thomas Franco

A Meme-Worthy Budget

Leaving people in the lurch is not a new thing for the Modi government. If people have not understood this, it is clearly their fault, they had 10 years to do so.

Read more July 26, 2024 at 4:12 pm Kavita Kabeer

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