In order to strengthen banking services in rural India, it is important that the government exercise more power to institutions like NABARD, SIDBI and IFCI, stated Thomas Franco, former general secretary of All India...
The government of India has reduced deposit interest rates drastically in addition to the banks which have been reducing the rates in tune with reduction of repo rates by the RBI. (Repo rate is...
देश में कोरोनावायरस नामक महामारी ने हाहाकार मचा दिया है जिसे रोकने के लिये सारे राज्य पूरी कोशिश कर रहे है। इसी कडी मे केद्रिय सरकार ने भी पूरे देश मे लॉकडाउन कर दिया...
Organisations say this method of communication is likely to continue even after lockdown ends. Cultural organisations and NGOs are increasingly turning to webinars or online seminars to get their message across and the response...
The savings of people deposited in banks form the capital of banks which banks lend to borrowers. Banks earn interest on the loans issued to borrowers. The cost of operating expenses including salaries comes from this...
Everyone accepts that the Covid-19 problem is not going to be over by April 14. When we were all anticipating an economy package, the PM asked us to hold candles and lights. To revive the economy,...
This case study of Smart City projects in Indore (Madhya Pradesh) includes an overview of the idea and the development work behind these projects. It begins with information about the city of Indore and...
About the speaker:Shalmali Guttal is the Executive Director of Focus on Global South. She is with Focus from 1997 and has worked in India, the United States, and mainland Southeast Asia. Since 1991, she...
About the speaker:Dr.T Sundararaman is a public health expert, he is former executive director of the National Health Systems Resource Centre, and former dean of School of Health System Studies at the Tata Institute...
About the speaker:Soumya Dutta is Co convenor of South Asian Peoples Action on Climate Crisis (SAPACC) and member of advisory board of the UN Climate Technology Centre and Network. He is a people science...
About the speaker:Kiruba Munusamy is an advocate practicing in the Supreme Court of India. She is a social, political and judicial activist striving for social justice by eliminating all forms of discriminations, oppressions and...
About the speaker:Leo F. Saldanha is full-time Coordinator and also Trustee of ESG. He has gained wide-ranging experience in the areas of Environmental Law and Policy, Decentralisation, Urban Planning and a variety of Human Rights...
About the speaker:Gautam Mody is the General Secretary of the New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI) of India. He was with Kamani Employees union in Mumbai. NTUI was formed when several independent trade unions in the...
Since the inception of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC), concerns have been raised by the local communities in different states about the large projects being implemented under it and their serious impacts on the...
The primary objective of nationalization of banks was to reach out to each and every last person of our society. The purpose was to provide credit facilities to poor and marginalized sections and free...