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India’s coal sector revival: A transitional strategy or entrenchment of fossil fuels?

Last week, the Financial Times reported that Coal India Limited (CIL), the world’s largest coal-producing company, will ...

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Tamilnadu Economic Survey and Budget

A model for the country and other states! We have seen many Union Economic Survey and Budget as well as State Budges. Ke...

General National Finance Random Reflections State Budget

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Wrong Diagnosis & Misplaced Priorities

A Critique of the Boston Consulting Group’s Report on Banking in India The Boston Consulting Group, an internation...

General Indian Economy Publications

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Why privatising India’s rail network is a bad idea

It is no secret that the Indian Railways is in dire need of funds. If the country’s rail network is to be truly strength...

General Smitu Kothari Fellowship Smitu Kothari Fellowship- 2020

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Random Reflections; Privatization of Public Sector – Withering of the State?

We just celebrated the 74th Independence day. On the Midnight of 14th August 1947, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru while addres...

Indian Economy National Financial Institutions Random Reflections

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Random Reflections- Solutions for the Banking Sector

“Call the dog mad and shoot it” was the old slogan. The present slogan is, “poison the dog, make it look like mad and s...

Indian Economy Random Reflections

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Banks Paying Heavily for Corporate Loan Waivers: RTI

Not Write offs, Corporate Loan Waivers Banks Recovered Only 10% Bad Loans After Writing Them Off !! According to...

Indian Economy National Financial Institutions NPAs

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19th July Call of the Day is “Defend Bank Nationalisation: – Defeat Bank Privatisation”

19th July 1969, the then Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi Nationalised 14 major private sector banks. Thus bankin...

Indian Economy National Financial Institutions

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Mega industrial infrastructure projects and their impact on people

The article takes a look at the several ongoing projects as part of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC). It pro...

Blog Infrastructure Finance Publications

July 15, 2025

Anitha Sampath

India’s coal sector revival: A transitional strategy or entrenchment of fossil fuels?

Last week, the Financial Times reported that Coal India Limited (CIL), the world’s largest coal-producing company, will be reopening defunct coal mines to meet India’s growing energy demand. These mines, previously shut down for being uneconomical, will be brought back on line to increase domestic c...

Coal Energy General

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March 18, 2025

Thomas Franco

Tamilnadu Economic Survey and Budget

A model for the country and other states! We have seen many Union Economic Survey and Budget as well as State Budges. Kerala Budget especially by Dr. Thomas Issac used to have innovations and visionary schemes for the majority of the people. This time Tamilnadu has shown the way. First Economic Surv...

General National Finance Random Reflections State Budget

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November 5, 2024

CFA & AIBOC

Wrong Diagnosis & Misplaced Priorities

A Critique of the Boston Consulting Group’s Report on Banking in India The Boston Consulting Group, an international consulting firm, in its report titled ‘Banking for a Viksit Bharat’, released together with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and Indian Banks&#...

General Indian Economy Publications

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June 10, 2021

Kavita Kabeer

Why privatising India’s rail network is a bad idea

It is no secret that the Indian Railways is in dire need of funds. If the country’s rail network is to be truly strengthened and its capacity augmented by increasing the speed of trains and opening dedicated freight corridors, huge investments are needed. Who will do the investments? The infrastruct...

General Smitu Kothari Fellowship Smitu Kothari Fellowship- 2020

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August 22, 2020

Thomas Franco

Random Reflections; Privatization of Public Sector – Withering of the State?

We just celebrated the 74th Independence day. On the Midnight of 14th August 1947, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru while addressing the Constituent Assembly in his famous speech, “Tryst with destiny”, underlined that the service of India means the service of the millions who suffer. It means the ending of ...

Indian Economy National Financial Institutions Random Reflections

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July 30, 2020

Thomas Franco

Random Reflections- Solutions for the Banking Sector

“Call the dog mad and shoot it” was the old slogan. The present slogan is, “poison the dog, make it look like mad and shoot it”. The governments have done exactly the same with public sector banks and they want them to be handed over to corporates – local and international. Arguments made are...

Indian Economy Random Reflections

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August 12, 2020

Ashish Kajla

Banks Paying Heavily for Corporate Loan Waivers: RTI

Not Write offs, Corporate Loan Waivers Banks Recovered Only 10% Bad Loans After Writing Them Off !! According to an RTI response received from Reserve Bank of India, between 2014 and 2019 scheduled commercial banks in India have written off bad loans worth Rs 6.35 lakh crore and have recover...

Indian Economy National Financial Institutions NPAs

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July 16, 2020

Devidas Tuljapurakar

19th July Call of the Day is “Defend Bank Nationalisation: – Defeat Bank Privatisation”

19th July 1969, the then Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi Nationalised 14 major private sector banks. Thus banking reached to the rural areas, backward regions. Banks started lending to the agriculture which enabled green revolution to become reality and thereby India became self reliant...

Indian Economy National Financial Institutions

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July 14, 2021

Gaurav Dwivedi

Mega industrial infrastructure projects and their impact on people

The article takes a look at the several ongoing projects as part of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC). It provides an overview of the projects implemented under it, assessment of the current status of projects and their financing aspects. It gives details of infrastructure projects being ...

Blog Infrastructure Finance Publications

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India’s coal sector revival: A transitional strategy or entrenchment of fossil fuels?

Tamilnadu Economic Survey and Budget

Wrong Diagnosis & Misplaced Priorities

Why privatising India’s rail network is a bad idea

Random Reflections; Privatization of Public Sector – Withering of the State?

Random Reflections- Solutions for the Banking Sector

Banks Paying Heavily for Corporate Loan Waivers: RTI

19th July Call of the Day is “Defend Bank Nationalisation: – Defeat Bank Privatisation”

Mega industrial infrastructure projects and their impact on people

India’s coal sector revival: A transitional strategy or entrenchment of fossil fuels?

Tamilnadu Economic Survey and Budget

Wrong Diagnosis & Misplaced Priorities

Why privatising India’s rail network is a bad idea

Random Reflections; Privatization of Public Sector – Withering of the State?

Random Reflections- Solutions for the Banking Sector

Banks Paying Heavily for Corporate Loan Waivers: RTI

19th July Call of the Day is “Defend Bank Nationalisation: – Defeat Bank Privatisation”

Mega industrial infrastructure projects and their impact on people