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Energy Matters | September 2025

The Telangana State Energy Finance Conference 2025, was conducted on 25 September 2025 at the Centre for Economic and So...

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Kodungaiyur’s Proposed ‘Waste Solution’: A Recipe for Toxic Air and Disease?

Kodungaiyur dumpyard. File | Photo Credit: B. Jothi Ramalingam | The Hindu For the communities living in the shadow of a...

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The SWaCH cooperative model of Pune: The “Yes In My Back Yard” model of waste management

The Solid Waste Collection and Handling cooperative or (SWaCH) is the world’s largest waste picker-led cooperative...

Energy General Oil and gas WTE(Waste to Energy)

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The Shaping of a Welfare Regime

Excerpt from Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-level Democracy By Louise Tillin, published in 202...

Coverage General Indian Economy

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Indian Banking Paradox: Accounting Profit Vs Social Profit

We are in the midst of major changing times in recent history; internationally, domestically in general and the Indian b...

Debt Crisis & NBFCs Finance General Indian Economy

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जलवायु सम्मेलन को वादे से क्रियान्वयन की ओर जाना होगा

इस वर्ष 30 वां जलवायु सम्मेलन (काप- 30) 10 नवंबर से 21 नवंबर तक ब्राज़ील के बेलेम शहर में आयोजित हो रहा है। यह जलवायु पर...

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A Note on Agriculture Debt Relief in Maharashtra

In 2017, Maharashtra implemented an agriculture debt relief scheme that waived debt amounting to ₹18,762 crore. This was...

Debt Crisis & NBFCs General Indian Economy

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Merger of Banks, Appointment of MDs from Private Sector and Privatisation of Banks

The Finance Minister has again started talking about the merger of 2–3 big banks to compete in the global market, and ne...

Finance General Random Reflections

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Crores spent, Smart Cities Mission leaves behind more bills, superficial infrastructure

The decade-long programme to transform India’s cities was driven mostly by Central and state funding and invested little...

Coverage General Infrastructure Finance SMART CITY MISSION AT TEN

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How the Smart Cities Mission represents another nail in the coffin of local democracy in India

Implementing projects through Special Purpose Vehicles altered the balance between the levels of government with a centr...

Coverage General Infrastructure Finance SMART CITY MISSION AT TEN

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November 19, 2025

CFA Admin

Energy Matters | September 2025

The Telangana State Energy Finance Conference 2025, was conducted on 25 September 2025 at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies. This conference was organized by a coalition of leading civil society organizations, research institutions, and industry bodies. The conference delved into the critic...

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November 18, 2025

Dr Vishvaja Sambath

Kodungaiyur’s Proposed ‘Waste Solution’: A Recipe for Toxic Air and Disease?

Kodungaiyur dumpyard. File | Photo Credit: B. Jothi Ramalingam | The Hindu For the communities living in the shadow of a proposed Waste-to-Energy (WTE) incineration plant in North Chennai’s Kodungaiyur, the primary question is deeply personal: “How will this affect my family’s heal...

Energy General WTE(Waste to Energy)

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November 18, 2025

Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran

The SWaCH cooperative model of Pune: The “Yes In My Back Yard” model of waste management

The Solid Waste Collection and Handling cooperative or (SWaCH) is the world’s largest waste picker-led cooperative, with over 3,900 self-employed members. It was formally instituted in 2005 in Pune, Maharashtra, as a wholly-owned workers’ cooperative by the Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Pa...

Energy General Oil and gas WTE(Waste to Energy)

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November 13, 2025

Louise Tillin

The Shaping of a Welfare Regime

Excerpt from Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-level Democracy By Louise Tillin, published in 2025 by Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom. The struggles of workers, employers, and the state to construct welfare regimes that reduce the dependency of workers on the extrem...

Coverage General Indian Economy

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November 12, 2025

Sanjeev Chandorkar

Indian Banking Paradox: Accounting Profit Vs Social Profit

We are in the midst of major changing times in recent history; internationally, domestically in general and the Indian banking system in particular. First time after independence, Indian banks are being sold to foreign capital, Lakshmi Vilas to DBS and Yes Bank to Sumitomo. IDBI bank is next. Few pu...

Debt Crisis & NBFCs Finance General Indian Economy

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November 21, 2025

Raj Kumar Sinha

जलवायु सम्मेलन को वादे से क्रियान्वयन की ओर जाना होगा

इस वर्ष 30 वां जलवायु सम्मेलन (काप- 30) 10 नवंबर से 21 नवंबर तक ब्राज़ील के बेलेम शहर में आयोजित हो रहा है। यह जलवायु परिवर्तन पर संयुक्त राष्ट्र फ्रेमवर्क कन्वेंशन पर केंद्रित है, जो जलवायु परिवर्तन से निपटने के लिए देशों और क्षेत्रों को एक साथ लाकर बातचीत और निर्णय लेने पर केंद्रित है। यह कोप-30 म...

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November 10, 2025

Devidas Tuljapurakar

A Note on Agriculture Debt Relief in Maharashtra

In 2017, Maharashtra implemented an agriculture debt relief scheme that waived debt amounting to ₹18,762 crore. This was followed by another debt relief program in 2019 for an amount of ₹20,497 crore. In the 2024 elections, almost all major political parties included an agriculture debt relief schem...

Debt Crisis & NBFCs General Indian Economy

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November 10, 2025

Thomas Franco

Merger of Banks, Appointment of MDs from Private Sector and Privatisation of Banks

The Finance Minister has again started talking about the merger of 2–3 big banks to compete in the global market, and newspapers say that the government is considering the appointment of Managing Directors in public banks from the private sector. This will destroy Public Sector Banks. Privatisation ...

Finance General Random Reflections

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October 28, 2025

Asmi Sharma and Nancy Pathak

Crores spent, Smart Cities Mission leaves behind more bills, superficial infrastructure

The decade-long programme to transform India’s cities was driven mostly by Central and state funding and invested little in the social well-being of citizens. A car drives through a flooded road after heavy rainfall in Bengaluru in October 2024. | ReutersThe Smart Cities Mission, launched in June 2...

Coverage General Infrastructure Finance SMART CITY MISSION AT TEN

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October 28, 2025

Marie Hélène Zérah

How the Smart Cities Mission represents another nail in the coffin of local democracy in India

Implementing projects through Special Purpose Vehicles altered the balance between the levels of government with a centralising vision and control. A visitor looks at a model of a ‘smart city’ at the Smartcity Expo in New Delhi in May 2015. | Reuters When the Indian government announced ...

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Energy Matters | September 2025

Kodungaiyur’s Proposed ‘Waste Solution’: A Recipe for Toxic Air and Disease?

The SWaCH cooperative model of Pune: The “Yes In My Back Yard” model of waste management

The Shaping of a Welfare Regime

Indian Banking Paradox: Accounting Profit Vs Social Profit

जलवायु सम्मेलन को वादे से क्रियान्वयन की ओर जाना होगा

A Note on Agriculture Debt Relief in Maharashtra

Merger of Banks, Appointment of MDs from Private Sector and Privatisation of Banks

Crores spent, Smart Cities Mission leaves behind more bills, superficial infrastructure

How the Smart Cities Mission represents another nail in the coffin of local democracy in India

Energy Matters | September 2025

Kodungaiyur’s Proposed ‘Waste Solution’: A Recipe for Toxic Air and Disease?

The SWaCH cooperative model of Pune: The “Yes In My Back Yard” model of waste management

The Shaping of a Welfare Regime

Indian Banking Paradox: Accounting Profit Vs Social Profit

जलवायु सम्मेलन को वादे से क्रियान्वयन की ओर जाना होगा

A Note on Agriculture Debt Relief in Maharashtra

Merger of Banks, Appointment of MDs from Private Sector and Privatisation of Banks

Crores spent, Smart Cities Mission leaves behind more bills, superficial infrastructure

How the Smart Cities Mission represents another nail in the coffin of local democracy in India