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The Tata Mundra Case: Communities vs. IFC

Fishing and farming families in Gujarat took on the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank Group’s pr...

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Tata Mundra: A Project Awaiting Settlement

Tata Mundra Project (Coastal Gujarat Power Limited – CGPL – a subsidiary of Tata Power), is a 4,000 megawatt power...

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Response to the Cost and Benefit Analysis of the Asian Development Bank Accountability Mechanism by the Asian Development Bank

At the very outset, we would like to appreciate ADB in doing this analysis and sharing the information publicly. The c...

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Case Against IFC at US Supreme Court: Disappointed with the outcome; Quest for Justice Continues

Landmark corporate accountability case resulted in critical reforms for the World Bank’s lending arm. April 26, 2022 New...

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Tata Mundra: Nobel laureate, others ask US apex court to drop immunity to World Bank

Economic, legal, diplomatic and civil society experts – including Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and ...

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Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz and Others Urge the US Supreme Court to Review World Bank Group Immunity in the Tata Mundra Finance Case

Submissions in the case on the disastrous Tata Mundra power plant project demonstrate that immunity decision in the US S...

General Press Releases Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Project

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ADB’s Compliance of its Safeguard Policies in the Tata Mundra Project

This is a critical look at ADB’s compliance of its safeguard policies in the Tata Mundra project and the failure o...

Asian Development Bank General Publications Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Project

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The World Bank Group’s Uncounted

The Tata group, one of India’s largest conglomerates, promised to be a good neighbor when it took on the job of building...

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What does the US Supreme Court’s Judgement mean for the People of Mundra?

What does the US Supreme Court’s Judgement on World Bank Group’s Immunity Mean for the people of Mundra, Guj...

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September 18, 2025

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The Tata Mundra Case: Communities vs. IFC

Fishing and farming families in Gujarat took on the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank Group’s private-sector lending arm, for funding the destructive Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Power Plant. The project devastated local livelihoods, fishing, farming, salt-panning, and animal reari...

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March 19, 2025

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Tata Mundra: A Project Awaiting Settlement

Tata Mundra Project (Coastal Gujarat Power Limited – CGPL – a subsidiary of Tata Power), is a 4,000 megawatt power plant developed on over 1250 hectares of land near the village Tunda-Wand, in Kutch district (India’s largest district with an area of 45,652 km2) of Gujarat state. A consortium o...

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January 25, 2025

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Response to the Cost and Benefit Analysis of the Asian Development Bank Accountability Mechanism by the Asian Development Bank

At the very outset, we would like to appreciate ADB in doing this analysis and sharing the information publicly. The costs We are astonished by the fact that $5 mn (2023 prices) was spent on the project since the complaint was filed with CRP until it was closed prematurely in 2018. The expenses l...

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April 26, 2022

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Case Against IFC at US Supreme Court: Disappointed with the outcome; Quest for Justice Continues

Landmark corporate accountability case resulted in critical reforms for the World Bank’s lending arm. April 26, 2022 New Delhi: Last evening India time, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition from a fishing community from the coast at Mundra, Gujarat whose livelihoods have been destroyed by Tata ...

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February 22, 2022

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Tata Mundra: Nobel laureate, others ask US apex court to drop immunity to World Bank

Economic, legal, diplomatic and civil society experts – including Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and former Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank – have urged the United States Supreme Court to go back to the case Budha Ismail Jam, et al v. IFC , (Tata Mundra case) ...

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February 18, 2022

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Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz and Others Urge the US Supreme Court to Review World Bank Group Immunity in the Tata Mundra Finance Case

Submissions in the case on the disastrous Tata Mundra power plant project demonstrate that immunity decision in the US Supreme Court has broad and dangerous consequences. February 17, 2022, New Delhi – This week, prominent economic, legal, diplomatic, and civil society experts – including Joseph S...

General Press Releases Tata Mundra Ultra Mega Project

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July 16, 2021

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ADB’s Compliance of its Safeguard Policies in the Tata Mundra Project

This is a critical look at ADB’s compliance of its safeguard policies in the Tata Mundra project and the failure of the Compliance Review Panel (CRP) process. 8 years after people complained to CRP and 6 years after their report, people are left disempowered, where communities approached all p...

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June 1, 2021

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The World Bank Group’s Uncounted

The Tata group, one of India’s largest conglomerates, promised to be a good neighbor when it took on the job of building the nation’s first “ultra mega” coal-fired power plant. The plan was to build the plant along the Gulf of Kutch, an inlet of the Arabian Sea that provides a living for fishing cla...

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March 11, 2026

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What does the US Supreme Court’s Judgement mean for the People of Mundra?

What does the US Supreme Court’s Judgement on World Bank Group’s Immunity Mean for the people of Mundra, Gujarat, India and beyond? Dr Bharat Patel General Secretary, Machimar Adhikar Sangharsh Sangathan and one of the co-petitioners, tells.

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The Tata Mundra Case: Communities vs. IFC

Tata Mundra: A Project Awaiting Settlement

Response to the Cost and Benefit Analysis of the Asian Development Bank Accountability Mechanism by the Asian Development Bank

Case Against IFC at US Supreme Court: Disappointed with the outcome; Quest for Justice Continues

Tata Mundra: Nobel laureate, others ask US apex court to drop immunity to World Bank

Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz and Others Urge the US Supreme Court to Review World Bank Group Immunity in the Tata Mundra Finance Case

ADB’s Compliance of its Safeguard Policies in the Tata Mundra Project

The World Bank Group’s Uncounted

What does the US Supreme Court’s Judgement mean for the People of Mundra?

The Tata Mundra Case: Communities vs. IFC

Tata Mundra: A Project Awaiting Settlement

Response to the Cost and Benefit Analysis of the Asian Development Bank Accountability Mechanism by the Asian Development Bank

Case Against IFC at US Supreme Court: Disappointed with the outcome; Quest for Justice Continues

Tata Mundra: Nobel laureate, others ask US apex court to drop immunity to World Bank

Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz and Others Urge the US Supreme Court to Review World Bank Group Immunity in the Tata Mundra Finance Case

ADB’s Compliance of its Safeguard Policies in the Tata Mundra Project

The World Bank Group’s Uncounted

What does the US Supreme Court’s Judgement mean for the People of Mundra?