Financial Accountability Network – India
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Social welfare allocations in the India’s budget have lagged behind promises for a decade. Here’s how Budget 2024 compares. As India accelerates towards becoming the third largest global economy, its growth is marked by increasing inequality. The post-pandemic recovery has been uneven and characterised by a K-shaped growth trajectory, where certain segments of…
For widows and people with disability, the pension amount was raised from Rs 200 to a mere Rs 300 in 2012, when urad dal costs Rs 138/kg and mustard oil Rs 136/kg. As India prepares to vote for a new government, what has the past 10 years of the Narendra…
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…
Response to SEBI Consultation Paper on Regulating Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Rating Providers for Securities Markets In the last few years and particularly in the last couple of years Financial Institutions, companies and regulators alike are interested in the ESG framework. It is surely a welcome step for the…
The Real Aim of Demonetisation was to Kill the Informal Economy, Rest of the Claims were Just Lies and Jumlas Press Conference on Five Years of Demonetisation 12th November 2021, Press Club of India, New Delhi Financial Accountability Network India ———————————————————————————– “If they needed to fight black money, it…
Join a Two-Day Online Convention On: The National Monetization (PRIVATIZATION) Pipeline & The Return of the Company Raj 13th & 14th September 4 pm – 6 pm [Find the panelists for each day on the poster] Zoom Meeting ID: 940 1494 0384 Passcode: 000007 Financial Accountability Network India & People…
Reclaim the Republic @ 75 Press Release | August 16, 2021: It has been 75 years since what we called our “tryst with destiny”. The 75th year ought not to be a time just for mindless celebrations and pomp and splendour. It is a time to reflect, introspect…
Press Release: In Defence of Democracy and the Farmers’ Movement 2 December 2020: The widespread farmers agitations against the pro-business and anti-farmer legislations passed undemocratically by the Indian Parliament in September 2020, has been met with a predictable insensitive and muted response from the Government. At the meeting called by…