Financial Accountability Network – India
Striving to Make Financial Institutions Accountable
The historic farmers’ agitation against the farm Bills pushed by the Modi government was a desperate fight back against what was being touted as Indian farming’s “1991 moment”. The Bills would have made farmers directly negotiate with private corporations instead of the mediation of a state-regulated marketplace. It took about…
The essence of democracy requires that we hold governments to account vis-a-vis their claims and promises. But one of the biggest casualties of the recent years has been the idea of accountability. The divisive and jingoist hyperboles in the media facilitate a collective amnesia. These report cards are a part…
Anti-Fascist Rally and Convention: Democracy Will Win Kolkata, January 2024 As part of the Financial Accountability Network India, we participated in the anti-fascist rally and convention in Kolkata on the 22nd and 23rd January 2024. Thousands gathered from across the country and marched the streets of Kolkata on the day…
The essence of democracy requires that we hold governments to account vis-a-vis their claims and promises. But one of the biggest casualties of the recent years has been the idea of accountability. The divisive and jingoist hyperboles in the media facilitate a collective amnesia. This report card (though not conclusive)…
Balance Sheet of a Decade! The essence of democracy requires that we hold governments to account vis-a-vis their claims and promises. But one of the biggest casualties of the recent years has been the idea of accountability. The divisive and jingoist hyperboles in the media facilitate a collective amnesia. This…
Date: 31st August 2023 We the undersigned express our deep concern on reports in the news media which state that a State Bank of India (SBI) led consortium is planning to invest ₹ 34,000 crore in the first phase of Adani Enterprises led Coal to Poly Vinyl Chloride (PVC) project…
An inevitable result of long neglect of scientific warnings, of gross financialization of nature and total lack of Environmental and Social Safeguard Policies! Joshimath woke up to large cracks on roads and houses with muddy water seeping from them, not in one or two but in over 600 houses! News media and…
Statement by People’s Movements, Trade Unions and CSOs Date: 17th January 2023 The central government opening the biggest new coal mine auction, announced in November 2022, is a mockery of the Prime Minister’s own climate announcements at climate change summits, and an invitation to worsening the climate crisis. In early…
2022 ഏപ്രിൽ 26-ന്, ഛത്തീസ്ഗഡിലെ ജനാർദൻപൂരിലെ ഒരു കൂട്ടം സ്ത്രീകൾ, ഹസ്ദിയോ ആരണ്യ വനത്തിലെ മരങ്ങൾ വനം വകുപ്പ് വെട്ടിമാറ്റുന്നത് തടഞ്ഞു കൊണ്ട്, മരങ്ങളെ കെട്ടിപ്പിടിച്ച് പ്രതിഷേധിക്കുകയും അതിൽ അവർ വിജയിക്കുകയും ചെയ്തു. എന്നാൽ വനംവകുപ്പ് അടുത്ത ദിവസം പുലർച്ചെ തിരിച്ചെത്തി 300-ലധികം മരങ്ങൾ വെട്ടിമാറ്റി. പ്രതിഷേധങ്ങൾക്കിടയിലും പാർസ ഈസ്റ്റ്, കെറ്റെബസാൻ കൽക്കരി ഖനികളിൽ രണ്ടാം ഘട്ട ഖനനത്തിന് അനുമതി ലഭിച്ചതിനെ തുടർന്നാണിത്. പദ്ധതികൾ രാജസ്ഥാൻ രാജ്യ വിദ്യുത് ഉത്പാദൻ നിഗത്തിന്റെ ഉടമസ്ഥതയിലുള്ളതും നടത്തിപ്പവകാശം അദാനി ഗ്രൂപ്പിനുമാണ്.…
On April 26th 2022, women of Janardanpur, Chhattisgarh hugged trees of the Hasdeo Aranya forest to prevent them from being felled by the forest department and did so successfully. But the forest department came back in the early hours next day and felled over 300 trees. This is following the clearance…