šŖ As India approaches another Union Budget, questions around privatisation and the future of public institutions have regained importance. The names of Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani have come up a lot during elections...
Yes Bank, which was rescued from collapse by the largest bank in our country, SBI, and restored to good health, is on sale. From a huge net loss of Rs. 16,418.02 crores in 2020...
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.Ā
The Tamil Nadu Government passed an amendment to the Factories Act
After getting independence in the year 1947, India adopted the process of planning for the economic development of the country. As soon as it became a republic, in 1950, the first five-year plan was...
When the Nobel Prize in Economics is awarded to economists for their work on āwhy banks should not be allowed to fail,ā the Union Government announced an Expression of Interest in selling IDBI Bank.
The derailment began in 1991, with the World Bank, an IMF loan, and the liberalisation, privatisation, and globalisation agenda.
It is surprising that none of these national newspapers noticed the footnote in the publication which said that this was not the opinion of the RBI.
A report presented by Poonam Gupta and Arvind Panagaraiya at the India Policy Forum 2022 on 12th July, is clearly a prescription for destroying the Indian Economy which is already on the verge of...
We witnessed an infantile jubilance on the part of the government since last year about a ārecord recoveryā from the pandemic. Finance Ministryās reportĀ claimed that armed with necessary macro and micro growth drivers, India...
In the USA right now, roadshows by our government to sell IDBI Bank are happening, soliciting prospective buyers.
The net profit of the public sector banks in 2021 was Rs.31,820 crore and their operating profit was Rs.1,97,376 crore. The net profit increased by 109% to Rs.66,541 crore in 2022 and the operating...
Mr Narendra Modi promised 2 crore jobs per year in 2014 itself. Now after 8 years, unemployment has increased in great proportions due to demonetisation, GST, lockdowns, contractualisation of labour and not filling up...
I was travelling from Chennai to Bhopal by Tamil Nadu Express, which is supposed to be a Superfast Express to attend the āAll India People's Science Congress.ā
Note to the readers: This is a mildly edited transcript of the talk given by the author at the World Without World Bank Campaign Week in 2021 at a panel titled āPrivatisation, Commodification and...
