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Time to press the panic button: Job loss is widespread and galloping

Ashoka University study shows 14 million jobs lost during Jan 2020-Oct 2022; EPFO data shows 2.9 million subscriptions l...

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PM-Kisan: Who and how many are getting income support of Rs 6,000?

Surely, the Center doesn’t know; had that not been the case, it wouldn’t be giving multiple sets of data, all of which c...

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Budget 2021: ‘Blueprint to drive inequality’

Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) organized a Public Meeting titled, “Budget Like Never Before: A Critical Analy...

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Random Reflections- Why Boycott Adani?

Gautam Adani is one of the most favoured of the ruling party especially the Prime Minister and the Home Minister. In 20...

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Under the cover of Covid, Govt plans to feed the farm sector to Corporates

Framers from the heart of green revolution states are on the roads facing the wrath of police lathis in midst of a pand...

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New Priority Sector norms – Favouring Rich and fleecing the poor

The Reserve Bank of India has released revised priority sector norms. A closer look shows how the government and RBI ar...

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A Financial Package with Little Relief Contents, Govt pushes Policy Reforms which Benefits Corporates but not the People

The financial package, amounting to Rs 20 lakh Crore and claimed to be 10% of the GDP was announced by the Prime Minist...

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Social Activists and Economists Layout Vision for a Post Covid Economy

Press Release | May 19, 2020 New Delhi: “Thinking about an Ameere Rehka (wealth line) and not a Gare...

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In Telangana, free power policy for farmers will exact a steep environmental cost

Unless the state changes course quickly, its policies will hurt the medium, small and marginal farmer, who make up 85% ...

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Random Reflections- Bankrupt Government Looting the Banks

New method Kissan Credit Card scheme to 9 crore PM-Kisan beneficiaries in 2 weeks. The Prime Minister had promised t...

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January 14, 2023

Prasanna Mohanty

Time to press the panic button: Job loss is widespread and galloping

Ashoka University study shows 14 million jobs lost during Jan 2020-Oct 2022; EPFO data shows 2.9 million subscriptions lost during FY20-FY22 and CMIE data shows unemployment rate touched 16-month high of 8.3% in Dec 2022 India has officially acknowledged that 62.5% of its population or 813.5 million...

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December 5, 2022

Prasanna Mohanty

PM-Kisan: Who and how many are getting income support of Rs 6,000?

Surely, the Center doesn’t know; had that not been the case, it wouldn’t be giving multiple sets of data, all of which contradict each other. One true “master stroke” that helped the Modi government clinch the second term in 2019 was the PM-Kisan announcement on February 1, 2019 in the ...

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February 18, 2025

Nishank

Budget 2021: ‘Blueprint to drive inequality’

Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) organized a Public Meeting titled, “Budget Like Never Before: A Critical Analysis of Budget 2021” on 11th February, 2021, which brought together an esteemed set of panellists covering Indian Economy, Public Health, Dalits & Adivasis, Environment and Clim...

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December 18, 2020

Thomas Franco

Random Reflections- Why Boycott Adani?

Gautam Adani is one of the most favoured of the ruling party especially the Prime Minister and the Home Minister. In 2014 elections Mr. Narendra Modi was going around the country in airplanes of Adani. So he favours Adani. The wealth of Adani has increased 121% between 2014 and 2019. From the 41st ...

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September 20, 2020

Mir Jalal

Under the cover of Covid, Govt plans to feed the farm sector to Corporates

Framers from the heart of green revolution states are on the roads facing the wrath of police lathis in midst of a pandemic. Numbered in thousands these distressed farmers are vociferously resisting against the three controversial ordinances brought by the current regime. They are: Farmers’ P...

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September 19, 2020

Thomas Franco

New Priority Sector norms – Favouring Rich and fleecing the poor

The Reserve Bank of India has released revised priority sector norms. A closer look shows how the government and RBI are tweaking the norms to favour the rich and fleece the poor. Already the norms have been diluted over a period of time by changing the criteria. In agriculture, allied activitie...

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May 26, 2020

Maju Varghese

A Financial Package with Little Relief Contents, Govt pushes Policy Reforms which Benefits Corporates but not the People

The financial package, amounting to Rs 20 lakh Crore and claimed to be 10% of the GDP was announced by the Prime Minister with much fanfare. Yet when details were announced by the Finance Minister, in the consecutive days, no substantial or even cosmetic relief was found for the masses. Masses whic...

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May 22, 2020

CFA Admin

Social Activists and Economists Layout Vision for a Post Covid Economy

Press Release | May 19, 2020 New Delhi: “Thinking about an Ameere Rehka (wealth line) and not a Gareebi Rekha (poverty line) is the need of the hour”, noted social activist Medha Patkar said. She was speaking at the Webinar Towards A Transformative Political Economy&nbs...

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April 1, 2020

Rajesh Serupally

In Telangana, free power policy for farmers will exact a steep environmental cost

Unless the state changes course quickly, its policies will hurt the medium, small and marginal farmer, who make up 85% of its agricultural sector. The people’s movements in Telangana that for six decades drove the demand that their region should be separated from the state of Andhra Pradesh were...

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March 1, 2020

Thomas Franco

Random Reflections- Bankrupt Government Looting the Banks

New method Kissan Credit Card scheme to 9 crore PM-Kisan beneficiaries in 2 weeks. The Prime Minister had promised that they would not interfere with Banks. He had accused the previous government of doing ‘phone banking’ to give loans. This government’s interference became visible with MUDRA loa...

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Time to press the panic button: Job loss is widespread and galloping

PM-Kisan: Who and how many are getting income support of Rs 6,000?

Budget 2021: ‘Blueprint to drive inequality’

Random Reflections- Why Boycott Adani?

Under the cover of Covid, Govt plans to feed the farm sector to Corporates

New Priority Sector norms – Favouring Rich and fleecing the poor

A Financial Package with Little Relief Contents, Govt pushes Policy Reforms which Benefits Corporates but not the People

Social Activists and Economists Layout Vision for a Post Covid Economy

In Telangana, free power policy for farmers will exact a steep environmental cost

Random Reflections- Bankrupt Government Looting the Banks

Time to press the panic button: Job loss is widespread and galloping

PM-Kisan: Who and how many are getting income support of Rs 6,000?

Budget 2021: ‘Blueprint to drive inequality’

Random Reflections- Why Boycott Adani?

Under the cover of Covid, Govt plans to feed the farm sector to Corporates

New Priority Sector norms – Favouring Rich and fleecing the poor

A Financial Package with Little Relief Contents, Govt pushes Policy Reforms which Benefits Corporates but not the People

Social Activists and Economists Layout Vision for a Post Covid Economy

In Telangana, free power policy for farmers will exact a steep environmental cost

Random Reflections- Bankrupt Government Looting the Banks