Disaster Funding and COVID-19 response of MDB’s in India

Over the years increasingly institutions like World Bank and other MDBs have started using post-disaster situations and climate change as an opportunity to bring in policy reforms. Post disaster rehabilitation and recovery programmes provide...

Read more July 2, 2020 at 4:32 pm Anuradha Munshi

Random Reflections- Are the Public Banks Already Private?

Institutions do not become public only because of ownership by the state. They should serve the people at large who are the real owners. While nationalising banks, the purpose was not to earn profit...

Read more July 2, 2020 at 2:43 pm Thomas Franco

Random Reflections- Loan Melas Are Back. Bankers Going to be in the Receiving End

The Hindu reported on 22nd June 2020 under the caption, ‘TN BJP creates website to help people get bank loans under central schemes’ saying that the TN state unit of BJP has set up...

Read more June 24, 2020 at 4:58 pm Thomas Franco

Hindi -Comments and Objections of Civil Society Groups and members on the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020

सेवा श्री आर के सिंह राज्य मंत्री-बिजली और नई और नवीकरणीय ऊर्जा श्रम शक्ति भवन, भारत सरकार नई दिल्ली -110001 ...

Videos: Activists speak strongly against Draconian Draft of Electricity Amendment Bill 2020

Videos Rajkumar Sinha, (Bargi Bandh Evam Visthapit Sangh & NAPM Madhya Pradesh) Ashok Srimali, (General Secretary of Mines, Mineral & People, Gujarat). Praful Samantra, (Lok Shakti Abhiyan & NAPM Odisha). Punit Minz, (Johar Unorganized...

THE BREACH OF TRUST BETWEEN BANKS AND THEIR CUSTOMERS

There are several factors which play an important role in determining the relationship between banks and their customers. One of the most important amongst them is what services banks provide and how they deliver...

Read more June 23, 2020 at 12:23 am Shivani Dwivedi

How the Govt Is Spinning Its Dysfunctional Nagpur Water Project as a Success Story

The Indian government’s PPP database indicates that infrastructure projects worth Rs 15,960.66 crore are listed under the ‘water’ sector, as of December 2019. Nagpur: The issue of water privatisation was once a hot potato...

Read more June 22, 2020 at 12:06 pm Nivedita Khandekar

Titanic Moment?; Analysis of NPAs & Loans by the PSBs in the Pre-COVID Era

An Analysis of Non-Performing Assets & Loans by the Public Sector Banks in the Pre-COVID Era For the Indian banks, reeling under the weight of mounting Non-Performing Assets (NPAs), COVID came as a blessing...

Random Reflections- Digital Frauds on the increase. Do our Banks have a Safe Security System?

Everyday hundreds of digital frauds are reported in the banks Internet Banking, ATMs, mobile banking etc. This is going on for years and seldom anybody is caught. Even well-educated are cheated. The cyber frauds...

Read more June 18, 2020 at 12:16 pm Thomas Franco

सस्ती सरकारी बिजली होने के बावजूद महंगी निजी बिजली खरीद रही सरकार

देश और दुनिया कोरोनावायरस महामारी के इस सकंट को फैलने से बचाने मे लगे है। लाखों मजदूर भुखे और प्यासे पैदल आपने गाँवों की और लौट रहे है। यह कहना भी असंगत नहीं होगा...

Read more June 17, 2020 at 5:54 pm Rajesh Kumar

BANK CHARGES EXHAUSTING COVID-19 RELIEF FUND

On 24th March, 2020, the Prime Minister of India has declared the nationwide lockdown due to global widespread of Covid 19. As a result, the entire businesses, works, and economy have shut down leading to...

Read more June 15, 2020 at 12:14 am Shivani Dwivedi

Random Reflections- Bank Loans; Many a slip between the Cup and the Lip: AIMO Survey Results

All India Manufacturers’ Organisation founded by Bharat Ratna, Sir M. Visvesvaraya in 1941 represents the MSMEs in the country. With the initiative of Shri K.E Raghunathan, immediate past president of the organisation AIMO has...

Read more June 12, 2020 at 11:30 am Thomas Franco

‘सरकार’ को चाहिए महंगी बिजली !

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ऊर्जा संवाद का विशेष अकं: सरकार द्धारा प्रस्तावित विद्युत अधिनियम 2020 बिजली क्षेत्र के निजीकरण पर जोर देता

टैरिफ की दर बढ़ेगी, जिसे फिर जबरन उपभोगताओं से वसूला जायेगा यह विधेयक में एक असफल सार्वजनिक-निजी साझेदारी (पी.पी.पी.) मॉडल का प्रस्ताव विवादस्पद विद्युत(संशोधन) विधेयक, 2020 की निंदा करते हुए संयुक्त बयान कड़े संघर्ष...

Concept Note titled Public Money: Resistance Against Arbitrary Bank Charges

Banks act as financial intermediaries between depositors and borrowers. It is the public money, deposited in the form of term deposit (fixed deposits) and time deposit (saving accounts) which banks use for lending to...