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Thermal Power

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The State of Energy Finance in India

This booklet by Tanya Thomas is a critical study looking at India’s energy systems and issues surrounding it today. Based on facts and current trends she offers not only the way ahead but also...

Read more February 13, 2021 at 3:55 pm Tanya Thomas

How India is making a way for coal?

Energy Sector Updates – Part 1How India is making a way for coal? Coal has not been only always costlier from the perspective of socio, economic, and ecology but it has also been one...

Read more January 22, 2021 at 1:54 pm Rajesh Kumar

The Dark Side of Thermal Power Plants Case Studies of Thermal Power Projects and Violations of Law

Of India’s installed power generation capacity of 331,118 megawatts (MW), 58%, or around 193,426MW, is fuelled by coal. Gas-based and hydropower projects account for 25,150MW and 44,765MW, respectively. Coal, one of the key polluters...

Read more March 27, 2020 at 1:45 am Priya Kamra

Beijing-based infrastructure bank ‘funding’ India’s environmentally risky projects

A new civil society note has questioned the operations of the Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), a multilateral development bank that aims to support the building of infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region, seeking...

Read more July 16, 2019 at 3:03 pm Counterview

Briefing Note: AIIB’s Investment in the NIIF: Why is it a Risky Venture?

With large infrastructure projects at the core of its investment support strategy, it is essential for the AIIB to ensure that their funds are directed to sustainable investments. In a country like India, where...

Read more July 8, 2019 at 12:11 pm Anuradha Munshi

Promise of Renewable and Clean Energy: What Changed in BJP’s Five Years

The generation of solar energy also forms part of the BJP’s plans to ‘double farmers’ income by 2022’ in view of enabling food providers to also take on the role of becoming energy providers....

Read more April 8, 2019 at 5:00 pm News18

Congress Manifesto Recognises Air Pollution Crisis

The Congress manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls recognises air pollution as public health emergency, but whether other political parties, like the BJP or the AAP, will take note of this is yet to...

Read more April 2, 2019 at 4:55 pm CFA

Banks on the Brink

The unprecedented crisis in the Indian banking sector, which has brought banks’ lending operations to a virtual standstill, means that they can do little to help the economy, which is buffeted on multiple fronts....

Read more October 5, 2018 at 10:25 am Frontline

Power Sector NPAs: New Report Slams Parliamentary Panel on Energy

The 37th Report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy failed to fix accountability for the NPA crisis in the power sector, while absolving disastrous moves like delicensing. A new report by Delhi-based Centre for Financial...

Read more September 11, 2018 at 1:01 pm Newsclick.in

Parliamentary Panel Failed to Address NPAs in Power Sector? A Delhi Think Tank Believes so

In a critique of the March 2018 report of the Parliamentary standing committee on energy, CFA has stated that the recommendations suggested by the Committee to address the problem of stressed assets in power...

Read more September 7, 2018 at 2:08 pm Business Today

A Critique of Report on ‘Stressed/Non-Performing Assets in Electricity Sector’

A new report has criticised the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy for failing to fix responsibility on who should have been held accountable for the current NPA crisis in the power sector. The report,...

Read more September 6, 2018 at 7:16 pm Rajesh Kumar

The corruption in the power sector is in the tune of over one lakh crore: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

August 23, 2017, New Delhi: “The corruption in the power sector is in the tune of over one lakh crore,” said senior journalist and author Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. The former editor of EPW and...

Read more August 23, 2017 at 1:33 pm CFA

Indian Movements/CSOs Submit Comments on NITI Aayog’s Draft of National Energy Policy

A group of civil society organisations, which has reviewed, and analysed the 2017 draft of the National Energy Policy (NEP), submitted its comments and suggestions from the financial perspective for improving the draft of...

Read more July 25, 2017 at 10:01 pm CFA

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Loans to Corporates – It’s high time to implement the RBI decision of 2016

Random Reflections RBI announced in August 2016, that it will move to cap exposure of Banks to large borrowers...

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Unwrapping Economic Survey 2020-21

Three days prior to the Union Budget presentation for the year 2021, Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitaraman introduced Economic...

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