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

पिछड़ता पर्यावरण

जिन वन और वन्यप्राणियों को इंसानी हस्तक्षेप से बचाने की खातिर समूची सरकारी ताकत जंगलों में बसे इक्का-दुक्का गांवों को खदेड़ने में लगी है, उन्हीं वनों को दान-दक्षिणा में पूंजीपतियों को सौंपा जा रहा...

Read more November 18, 2024 at 9:24 am Raj Kumar Sinha

Wrong Diagnosis & Misplaced Priorities

A Critique of the Boston Consulting Group's Report on Banking in India

Read more November 4, 2024 at 3:59 pm CFA & AIBOC

Loan Waiver to People Affected by Disaster – Wayanad and Beyond: Is it a Just Demand?

Random Reflections The government and banks, which write off crores of depositors’ money to benefit the wealthiest, make a hue and cry when farmers or disaster-affected people demand loan waivers. Disasters occur frequently across...

Read more October 31, 2024 at 10:50 am Thomas Franco

Exploring:Sovereign Wealth Funds and Pension Funds Capital in Indian Infrastructure

This report while examining the capital investments of Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) and Pension Funds (PFs) reveals a growing interest in infrastructure projects, amongst these institutional investors. This trend stems from the attractive security provided...

Read more October 29, 2024 at 2:58 pm Raktim Majumdar & Gaurav Dwivedi

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

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