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A note complicating the claims around financial inclusion through Banking

When the RBI announced recently that its Financial Inclusion Index had jumped from 64.2 to 67 this year, celebrating ...

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Women demand basic dignity, access to credit and monitoring micro finance by States

The National Public Hearing on Rising Indebtedness of Women and MFI Loot, convened by the All India Democratic Women’s A...

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From Credit to Crisis: India’s Women in Debt I Finance Matters, 22 August 2025 I Editorial

A new nationwide survey has laid bare the dark side of India’s microfinance boom. Conducted by the All India Democra...

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BULA BILL TO SAVE SHYLOCKS?

The Statement of the Peoples Commission on Public Sector and Public Services has declared that the BULA Bill fails to re...

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Micro Loans Are Driving an Already Forsaken Population Further Into Distress

The people for whom such micro-credits become a lifeline are those who are not considered credit worthy by the formal ba...

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By pushing people to money lenders the Union Govt and RBI are implementing Manusmriti

History shows that in primitive society there was no money lending and people shared their natural resources. In In...

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India’s Unequal Tax Structure: The Rich Pay Less, The Rest Get Less

In effect, India’s tax system mimics advanced economies in numbers but lacks the redistributive structure of the progres...

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संसाधनों के नियंत्रण को लेकर आदिवासीयों और सरकार के बीच द्वंद्व

देश के 15 प्रतिशत भूखंड में आदिवासी समूह रहते हैं।वन, खदान, बांध आदि परियोजनाओं ने आदिवासियों के जीवन व जीविका को काफी प...

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A Quick Glance through the Financial Stability Report 2025

As the Reserve Bank of India celebrates the “resilience” of India’s financial system in its latest Financial Stability R...

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Loan Write-offs and Reduction in Rural Bank Branches Are Undermining Financial Inclusion in India

As the DFS gears up for its stock-taking meet, it must recall that true financial inclusion needs more public sector b...

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September 11, 2025

Anirban Bhattacharya

A note complicating the claims around financial inclusion through Banking

When the RBI announced recently that its Financial Inclusion Index had jumped from 64.2 to 67 this year, celebrating “significant improvement,” it painted a rosy picture that masks a troubling reality. The Department of Financial Services too has been trumpeting achievements in bringing ...

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September 11, 2025

Thomas Franco

Women demand basic dignity, access to credit and monitoring micro finance by States

The National Public Hearing on Rising Indebtedness of Women and MFI Loot, convened by the All India Democratic Women’s Association, on 23-24 August 2025 at New Delhi highlighted the failure of the Government of India and the Reserve Bank of India in curbing the growing power and malpractices of NBFC...

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September 11, 2025

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From Credit to Crisis: India’s Women in Debt I Finance Matters, 22 August 2025 I Editorial

A new nationwide survey has laid bare the dark side of India’s microfinance boom. Conducted by the All India Democratic Women’s Association across 15 states, the study of 6,685 women shows how non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) have become debt traps rathe...

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September 11, 2025

Thomas Franco

BULA BILL TO SAVE SHYLOCKS?

The Statement of the Peoples Commission on Public Sector and Public Services has declared that the BULA Bill fails to rein in predatory lending activities.The summary of the statements is given below: The Department of Financial Services has released the Banning of Unregulated Lending Activities (BU...

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August 5, 2026

Amitanshu Verma, Anirban Bhattacharya and Haripriya B Harshan

Micro Loans Are Driving an Already Forsaken Population Further Into Distress

The people for whom such micro-credits become a lifeline are those who are not considered credit worthy by the formal banking system. ‘These are the people for whom such micro-credits become a lifeline as they are not considered credit worthy by the formal banking system.’ Photo: Anirba...

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September 11, 2025

Thomas Franco

By pushing people to money lenders the Union Govt and RBI are implementing Manusmriti

History shows that in primitive society there was no money lending and people shared their natural resources. In India, the concept of lending has been recorded during the Mauryan age, i.e., 321–185 BCE. Kautilya’s texts mention Rnapatra, Rna panna, Rna lekhaya, which were loan-related document...

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August 1, 2025

Pranay Raj

India’s Unequal Tax Structure: The Rich Pay Less, The Rest Get Less

In effect, India’s tax system mimics advanced economies in numbers but lacks the redistributive structure of the progressive nations.The World Economic Forum (WEF) has described severe income inequality as the biggest risk facing the world. Credit: IPS “Tax terrorism” – that’s how the opposition des...

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July 9, 2025

Raj Kumar Sinha

संसाधनों के नियंत्रण को लेकर आदिवासीयों और सरकार के बीच द्वंद्व

देश के 15 प्रतिशत भूखंड में आदिवासी समूह रहते हैं।वन, खदान, बांध आदि परियोजनाओं ने आदिवासियों के जीवन व जीविका को काफी प्रभावित किया है।58 आदिवासी बहुल जिलों में 67 प्रतिशत से अधिक जंगल है। इन्हीं इलाकों के बङे भाग के जंगल को रिजर्व फॉरेस्ट, अभ्यारण्य और राष्ट्रीय उद्यान रुप में बांट दिया गया है।इस ...

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July 2, 2025

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A Quick Glance through the Financial Stability Report 2025

As the Reserve Bank of India celebrates the “resilience” of India’s financial system in its latest Financial Stability Report (June 2025), this briefing cuts through the celebratory tone to examine the deeper, often concealed, vulnerabilities. From surging household debt and stagnating wages to risi...

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September 11, 2025

Anirban Bhattacharya

Loan Write-offs and Reduction in Rural Bank Branches Are Undermining Financial Inclusion in India

As the DFS gears up for its stock-taking meet, it must recall that true financial inclusion needs more public sector bank branches and staff. Soldiers and SBI officials at a PM Jan Dhan Yojana camp in rural Manipur in 2016. Photo: X/@easterncomd. It appears that a major stock-taking and brainstorm...

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A note complicating the claims around financial inclusion through Banking

Women demand basic dignity, access to credit and monitoring micro finance by States

From Credit to Crisis: India’s Women in Debt I Finance Matters, 22 August 2025 I Editorial

BULA BILL TO SAVE SHYLOCKS?

Micro Loans Are Driving an Already Forsaken Population Further Into Distress

By pushing people to money lenders the Union Govt and RBI are implementing Manusmriti

India’s Unequal Tax Structure: The Rich Pay Less, The Rest Get Less

संसाधनों के नियंत्रण को लेकर आदिवासीयों और सरकार के बीच द्वंद्व

A Quick Glance through the Financial Stability Report 2025

Loan Write-offs and Reduction in Rural Bank Branches Are Undermining Financial Inclusion in India

A note complicating the claims around financial inclusion through Banking

Women demand basic dignity, access to credit and monitoring micro finance by States

From Credit to Crisis: India’s Women in Debt I Finance Matters, 22 August 2025 I Editorial

BULA BILL TO SAVE SHYLOCKS?

Micro Loans Are Driving an Already Forsaken Population Further Into Distress

By pushing people to money lenders the Union Govt and RBI are implementing Manusmriti

India’s Unequal Tax Structure: The Rich Pay Less, The Rest Get Less

संसाधनों के नियंत्रण को लेकर आदिवासीयों और सरकार के बीच द्वंद्व

A Quick Glance through the Financial Stability Report 2025

Loan Write-offs and Reduction in Rural Bank Branches Are Undermining Financial Inclusion in India