Financial Accountability Network – India
Striving to Make Financial Institutions Accountable
Sealdah-bound Kanchanjunga Express disaster leaves 8 dead, 30 injured—2nd major accident under Railway Minister Vaishnaw in a year. Balasore accident last year: 291 lives lost. CAG reports ₹1 lakh crore shortfall for track renewal, funds misused on trivial items. Only 0.7% of safety funds used properly. Focus on Vande Bharat…
How many houses were actually built? Did the most marginalised actually benefit? What discrepancies does the CAG report show? From the glaring inequalities in the housing sector to the evictions and the communally driven “bulldozer justice” the report reviews the housing sector. This is the fourteenth and the last in…
This is the fifth in a series of report cards by the Financial Accountability Network India, that attempts (even if not exhaustively) to glance through and highlight a few of the claims and reality of the government’s performance across various sectors from a financial and economic lens. While the govt…
What the Finance Minister presented as the “White Paper” on Indian economy was more like an effort to White Wash a decade of its failure.
Just a scratch on the surface peels off the layers of lies, media hyperboles and gimmicks. What remains is the reality which is stark, alarming and dark. A reality they wish to hide behind its divisive politics of hate.
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…
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…