B Ready: Brace for impact
India has been the poster boy of the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business as it leaped in the ranking by rapidly deregulating its economy. Environmental regulations were scaled back, labour regulations diluted...
Announcing Smitu Kothari Fellows – 2023
Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) is happy to announce recipients of the 6th Smitu Kothari Fellowship for young writers. The 7 recipients for 2023 come from diverse backgrounds and experiences, and hail from different...
Sikkim tragedy is man made. Don’t look for excuses | The Money Trail
The devastation of the flood in Sikkim was multiplied several fold by the dams in Teesta river. This disaster was warned well in advance. Scientists provided studies. People protested. Nature gave warnings. But the...
National Infrastructure Pipeline: An analysis of PPP projects
It is widely accepted that infrastructure is key to India’s economic growth. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has termed it as an important pillar for the continued economic growth in the country, with...
The Indian Infrastructure Finance Market attempts to revive PPPs
The infrastructure sector has been a very dynamic space in the last few years given the push by the government on creation of infrastructure for businesses as well as to meet SDG targets. This...
If There Was Political Will, India’s Raging Cost of Living Crisis Could Be Eased
While the government is happy to externalise the crisis to the invasion of Ukraine alone and its effect on fuel prices, it is the food inflation that has seen a much sharper upward swing.
Narendra Modi’s Decade in Power Has Brought a Shrinking Welfare Landscape to India
Declining allocations on social welfare spending, and neglect of existing schemes and programmes, underscore how welfare has come to be constrained in the past ten years.
Roadblocks to Accountability:
This report analyses the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s Independent Accountability Mechanism, the Project-affected People’s Mechanism, now in its fifth year of existence and nearing its policy-mandated review.
Is the Pandemic Really Over? Unearthing Stories of Death, Debt and Distress
It’s been three and a half years since COVID-19 was first reported in the country. The country and its people witnessed a lack of preparation by the authorities resulting in a dearth of necessary...
Doubling Farmer’s Income: A Tale of Empty Promises, Deceit and Propaganda
Far from seeing doubled incomes, farmers are caught in the pincer of low unfair prices for their produce and ever rising input costs.
स्मितु कोठारी फ़ेलोशिप 2023
सेंटर फॉर फाइनेंशियल अकॉउंटेबिलिटी दिल्ली में स्थित एक संस्था है, जो भारत में वित्तीय जवाबदेही को मज़बूत करने और इसे बेहतर करने के लिये काम करती है। सेंटर फॉर फाइनेंशियल अकॉउंटेबिलिटी छठी स्मितु कोठारी...
Japan pushes WTE projects in India
On August 1st, the Prime Minister inaugurated the first waste-to-energy (WTE) plant of Maharashtra in the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC).
कोयले की शक्ति : अक्षय ऊर्जा के महत्वाकांक्षी लक्ष्यों के बावजूद उत्तर प्रदेश में कोयला आधारित 1600 मेगावाट पावर प्लांट को मंजूरी
भारत का लक्ष्य 2022 तक अक्षय ऊर्जा यानी रिन्यूएबल एनर्जी (अक्षय ऊर्जा या नवीकरणीय ऊर्जा के उदाहरण हैं – बायोगैस, बायोमास, सौर ऊर्जा इत्यादि.) से 175 गीगावॉट बिजली उत्पादन करने का था।
Energy Transition in India – whose voices are being heard
Energy Transition has been the talking point in recent years thanks to the alarming climate change events and the atmospheric CO2 levels. India has the third highest carbon emissions in the world.
Rethinking Energy Transition
Fossil fuels—coal, oil, and gas—are the largest contributor to global climate change, responsible for more than 75% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, and nearly 90% of all carbon dioxide emissions.
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