Ankit Agrawal, Author at Centre for Financial Accountability

Regulators, Experts, Activists Discusses Energy Finance in India Over Two Days

August 18, 2019, Chennai: The recently concluded two-day conference on Energy Finance in India at IIT Madras witnessed e...

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JPMorgan Chase Must Stop Financing Fossil Fuels, Demand 300 CSOs

Around 300 organisations, representing over thirty million supporters from around the world, called on the JPMorgan Chas...

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Over 250 CSOs Ask Governments and IFIs to Stop Funding Hydropower

“We live in an age of urgency… We cannot remain silent onlookers while corporate profiteers, financiers, and their...

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CSOs Criticise RBI for not having a guideline on Bank Charges

Criticising the latest Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) annual Banking Ombudsman Report, which revealed dissatisfacti...

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Over 50 Organisations From The World Ask Japan To Stop Funding Coal

In full-page advertisements in the Financial Times and Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest daily newspaper, 50 repute...

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Historic Verdict On The Immunity Of IFIs Celebrated

March 31, 2019, Mundra, Gujarat: In an afternoon with 41-degree heat, hundreds of men, women, and children from Navinal...

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Between 2015-2018, India Paid Around Rs 400 Crore As Commitment Charges

Answering to a question in the parliament, Pon Radhakrishnan, the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance, revealed...

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ADB was the Biggest Lender to India in 2018

As per the Early Warning System, which collects and verify information about the proposed and existing projects, India, ...

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Q&As on Finance in the 2018 Winter Session of the Parliament

The second half of the winter session of the parliament continued to witness the members asking government questions rel...

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Q&A on Finance in the Winter Session of Parliament 2018

The first ten days of the winter session of 2018, the parliament witnessed members asking wide-ranging questions related...

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February 7, 2020

Ankit Agrawal

Regulators, Experts, Activists Discusses Energy Finance in India Over Two Days

August 18, 2019, Chennai: The recently concluded two-day conference on Energy Finance in India at IIT Madras witnessed enthusiastic participation from various regulators, experts, industry leaders, bankers, activists and discussion on issues related to past, present and future of the Indian energy t...

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May 24, 2019

Ankit Agrawal

JPMorgan Chase Must Stop Financing Fossil Fuels, Demand 300 CSOs

Around 300 organisations, representing over thirty million supporters from around the world, called on the JPMorgan Chase to stop financing expansion of fossil fuels, and commit to phasing out funding of fossil fuels in time to limit climate change to 1.5°C. In a letter addressed to Jamie Dimon, Cha...

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May 17, 2019

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Over 250 CSOs Ask Governments and IFIs to Stop Funding Hydropower

“We live in an age of urgency… We cannot remain silent onlookers while corporate profiteers, financiers, and their allies peddle false solutions for addressing climate change and implementing sustainable development,” declared the joint statement issued by over 250 Civil Society Organisations ...

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September 13, 2019

Ankit Agrawal

CSOs Criticise RBI for not having a guideline on Bank Charges

Criticising the latest Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) annual Banking Ombudsman Report, which revealed dissatisfaction among 25 per cent customers, Financial Accountability Network (FAN India), has issued a public statement chiding RBI for being silent and not even issuing a guideline despite ha...

Bank Charges National Financial Institutions NFIs NPAs

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April 27, 2019

Ankit Agrawal

Over 50 Organisations From The World Ask Japan To Stop Funding Coal

In full-page advertisements in the Financial Times and Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest daily newspaper, 50 reputed organisations, working on environment and accountability related issues, from across the world have appealed to Shinzo Abe to stop funding coal. The advertisements, endorsed by W...

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April 25, 2019

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Historic Verdict On The Immunity Of IFIs Celebrated

March 31, 2019, Mundra, Gujarat: In an afternoon with 41-degree heat, hundreds of men, women, and children from Navinal and Tagri villages of Kutch, and members from the civil society and peoples’ movements from across India have gathered to celebrate a historic legal victory in the US Supreme Cour...

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February 24, 2019

Ankit Agrawal

Between 2015-2018, India Paid Around Rs 400 Crore As Commitment Charges

Answering to a question in the parliament, Pon Radhakrishnan, the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance, revealed that between the financial year 2015-2018, India paid Rs 396.775 crore as Commitment Charges to the lending agencies. Rs 396.775 crore, the amount paid for the non-utilisation of ...

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March 1, 2019

Ankit Agrawal

ADB was the Biggest Lender to India in 2018

As per the Early Warning System, which collects and verify information about the proposed and existing projects, India, in 2018, had 112 active or proposed projects funded by Development Finance Institutions (DFIs). These institutions included Asian Development Bank (ADB); Asian Infrastructure Inves...

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February 15, 2019

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Q&As on Finance in the 2018 Winter Session of the Parliament

The second half of the winter session of the parliament continued to witness the members asking government questions related to finance. Some of these questions were related to the NPAs in various sectors of the Scheduled Commercial banks and Cooperative Banks, rationalisation of the branches and AT...

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February 7, 2020

Ankit Agrawal

Q&A on Finance in the Winter Session of Parliament 2018

The first ten days of the winter session of 2018, the parliament witnessed members asking wide-ranging questions related to the finance. These questions can broadly be divided into the following categories: Demonetisation Issues related to the health of the Public Sector Banks, which could, in turn...

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