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March 11, 2026
Who is this Model of Economic Growth for?
Professor Arun Kumar questioned the model of economic growth by asking who is it for. The economy is not growing at 7%, as claimed by the government, the big shocks of demonetisation and GST on the unorganised sector are still felt. He said that due to the negative growth, the marginalised community...
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March 11, 2026
The Key Infra Projects are Anti-people
“AIIB has created a superstructure, an ecosystem which acts as a complex web of shining terminologies and projects to attract investments, which actually is a smoke screen to hide the fact that there’s no human development happening” senior activist Medha Patkar said in her speech. ...
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March 11, 2026
The Infra being Pushed is not what the People Demand
Senior activist Ulka Mahajan of Sarvahara Jan Andolan said, “The infrastructure that is being developed is not what people demand, but it is what global capital demands. The international financial institutions are promoting corporate interests over that of people and also pushing the states to the ...
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May 21, 2019
Who is benefitting from the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project?
The information available in public domain is that JICA is financing the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Project by lending 88 thousand crore rupees at an interest rate of 0.1%. Payback period is 50 years with a moratorium of 15 years. The claim is that loan is free and Japan is behaving like a close ...
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June 24, 2018
Development must not Happen at the Cost of Constitutional Rights
Mumbai, June 23: “The so-called ‘development’ must not come at the cost of constitutional rights,” said prominent activist and Goldman Environment Awardee Prafulla Samantra at the press conference, which was organised on the last day of the three-day Peoples’ Convention on Infrastructur...
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