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December 6, 2017
Will the RBI Solve the NPA Problem?
Five years ago, the All India Bank Officers’ Association, presented a presentation to our Bank Management titled NPA-Never Permit an Avalanche. This helped a lot to reduce NPAs of smaller amount but the large Corporate NPAs had to be tackled at the top level. Over this period it is now accepted that...
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December 6, 2017
Monsoon session of the Parliament: An overview
Maju Varghese The Parliament met from July 17 to August 11, 2017. The election of the president and vice-president of India took place during this session. The new vice-president, M Venkaiah Naidu, presided over the Rajya Sabha on the last day. This session also saw the retirement of a few members, ...
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November 20, 2017
Communities affected by Tata Mundra rejects ADB’s Annual Monitoring Report
Report subverts the real issues while focusing only on the frivolous ones August 25, 2017, Kutch, Gujarat: Communities affected by the Tata Mundra (Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd – CGPL) coal power plant in Kutch have rejected Asian Development Bank’s Second Annual Monitoring Report to the Board of Direc...
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February 18, 2019
India’s Thermal Power Projects are Making Even our Public-Sector Banks Sick
We all know of the killing impacts of coal based power plants – from the massive air pollution, from water contamination and from the dirty coal mines.  As per the “State of Global Air 2017” report, there were over 4.2 million premature deaths in 2015, from exposure to long term air pollution alone,...
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September 3, 2017
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 author of Gas Wars alleged that out of this, Rs one lakh crore, the corruption of Rs 50,000 is ‘well-establis...
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