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Vol II Issue 27
🗓️ 13th June 2024

🔏 Accountability takes another hit as CFA loses FCRA

⚖️ Investments in big infra vs Community rights

🇬🇧 Chatter about India UK FTA as Labour Party wins: What's the fuss about?

⛏️ Coal, Coercion, and Conflict: Singrauli's Struggle Against Adani's Might

https://heyzine.com/flip-book/fcdd0e103d.html
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Vol II Issue 28
🗓️ 21st July 2024

⚠️ IDBI Bank: Perilous Privatization

🌊 Facades and Broken Promises: The many betrayals of hydropower

🛍️ RBI Bulletin: Increasing share of NBFCs in household credit cause for alarm?

🛠️ RBI Bulletin & ASUSE Report: Bleak picture of Indian labour

https://heyzine.com/flip-book/07c48af002.html/
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🛄 A Report on Budget 2024-25

💸 The Budget that Didn't Deliver: Unpacking the Budget 2024-25

What you will find in it:

⭐ Overview: We Deserve Better

🪙 Debit-Credit-Fake it: Banking, Finance & Loans

🤷🏽 Amdani atthanni Kharcha Rupayya: Employment, Income & Price Rise

🎭 Old tricks of the 'New Welfare Approach': Status of Social Sector Spending

🏗️ Corrosive Corridors: Interrogating the Infrastructure Claims

🌵 Are our energy plans and climate commitments at loggerheads?

🎩 Upside Down Tax: The absurdity of tax regime continues

💼 Snippets: Our Published pieces on Budget 2024-25

https://www.cenfa.org/the-budget-that-didnt-deliver-unpacking-the-budget-2024-25/

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Vol II Issue 29
🛄 BUDGET ISSUE
🗓️ 28th July 2024

✂️ Another year of disappointing social security budget

🪙 Debit, Credit, Fake it: Credit, Finance & Loans

⚡ Lack of comprehensive transition plan shows through in energy budget

🏗️ Reality behind India's Developer Claims

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Vol II Issue 30
🗓️ 4th August 2024

🃏 Cheat. Treat. Repeat: Master Direction on Wilful Defaulters allow space for swindling to continue

🌱 Will Indian Banks Adapt to The Climate Challenge?

🌾 Bad Loans Surge as Indian Farmers Struggle with Weather and Costs

🛄 Rising Inequality: The Root of India's Corruption Crisis

https://heyzine.com/flip-book/d5a90b5b66.html
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If the economy, policy-making, administration, defence and the judiciary are in the hands of a few corporates, inequality will only increase and democracy cannot thrive. As some people say, why rule by proxy? Why not hand over everything to Adani and Ambani and dissolve the Parliament?

Writes Thomas Franco in #RandomReflections this week.
https://www.cenfa.org/corporate-control-of-the-country-must-go-farmers-are-showing-the-way/

𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 | 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒
𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔, 𝑨𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒔 & 𝑫𝒆𝒃𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝑬𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒚

✳️ Burn and Earn: Another facet of Plastic Credits and the false solution that it is by Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran
https://bit.ly/burn-pc

✳️गर्मी से गहराता संकट | राज कुमार सिन्हा
https://bit.ly/heat-crisis

✳️Singrauli: Section 144 imposed in Adani operated Suliyari and Dhiroli coal mine region by Deepmala Patel
https://bit.ly/Singrauli-144

✳️A letter to the EDs of the IFC regarding the potential harms of investing in the WTE projects in Gujarat
https://bit.ly/Letter-IFC

https://www.cenfa.org/energy-matters-july-2024/

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𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 is now on 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 and 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀𝗔𝗽𝗽. 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘬 https://xn--r1a.website/cfa_ind 𝘵𝘰 𝘫𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘛𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘭 channel and our WhatsApp channel at https://bit.ly/cfa-whatsapp and 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘶𝘱𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦.

New Microsite Launch!!🚨

'𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐅𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲' 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐧'𝐬 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞!
The Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) is launching its new microsite dedicated to the 'Plastics Fuel Infertility' campaign.

🗓️𝟐𝟖𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒
🕰️𝟎𝟒 𝐏𝐌 𝐭𝐨 𝟎𝟔 𝐏𝐌

Join us as we explore the Indian petrochemical landscape, the environmental and health impacts of plastic burning, and the on-the-ground realities faced by communities affected by the industry.

🔗𝐙𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤: https://bit.ly/microsite-launch

It's one year since the We20 Peoples' Summit

A Peoples’ Summit was held just before the G20 Summit in New Delhi, where over 700 people representing many trade unions, people's movements and CSOs from 18 states came together. The Government used the G20 Summit to seek political and electoral mileage, conducting over 200 meetings in 60 towns and cities, making a spectacle out of it.

While the We20 Summit was one of the people’s responses to India’s G20 presidency, intended to serve as a counterpoint, addressing the shortcomings and concerns that many argue are inadequately tackled by the G20’s policies and decisions. Yet the Police stopped the We20 on the 3rd day.

Read more about what happened at the #We20Summit in August 2023.

https://wgonifis.net/2024/08/22/its-one-year-since-we20-summit/

𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬
𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞 𝟎𝟖, 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝟎𝟔, 𝟐𝟑 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒

𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑾𝒆𝒆𝒌

⭕174 Civil Society Organizations, Networks, and Activists Oppose Financing by IFC for Abellon Clean Energy’s Toxic, Pollution Waste-to-Energy Projects in Gujarat, India
https://bit.ly/174-CSO-WTE

⭕Interlinkages between Petrochemicals and Biodiversity | Report by Sachin Pernacca Sashidhar
https://bit.ly/petchem-bio

⭕On the recent spate of railway accidents – Urgent need to demand accountability | Statement
https://bit.ly/railway-stmt

⭕Launch of the ‘Plastics Fuel Infertility’ Campaign’s Microsite | Event
https://bit.ly/microsite-plastic

⭕Please Mind the Gap | Webinar
https://bit.ly/mindthegap-webinar
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⭕It’s one year since We20 Summit!
https://bit.ly/we20-1year

⭕Video: Kutch on the Edge: Industrialisation's Threat to Livelihoods
https://bit.ly/3AER8Lk

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𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 is now on 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 and 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀𝗔𝗽𝗽. 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘬 https://xn--r1a.website/cfa_ind 𝘵𝘰 𝘫𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘛𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘭 channel and our WhatsApp channel at https://bit.ly/cfa-whatsapp and 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘶𝘱𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦.

New Microsite Launch!!🚨

'𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐅𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲' 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐧'𝐬 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞!
The Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) is launching its new microsite dedicated to the 'Plastics Fuel Infertility' campaign.

🗓️𝟐𝟖𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒
🕰️𝟎𝟒 𝐏𝐌 𝐭𝐨 𝟎𝟔 𝐏𝐌

Join us as we explore the Indian petrochemical landscape, the environmental and health impacts of plastic burning, and the on-the-ground realities faced by communities affected by the industry.

🔗𝐙𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤: https://bit.ly/microsite-launch

New Microsite Launch!!🚨

'𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐅𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲' 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐧'𝐬 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞!
The Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) is launching its new microsite dedicated to the 'Plastics Fuel Infertility' campaign.

🗓️𝟐𝟖𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒
🕰️𝟎𝟒 𝐏𝐌 𝐭𝐨 𝟎𝟔 𝐏𝐌

Join us as we explore the Indian petrochemical landscape, the environmental and health impacts of plastic burning, and the on-the-ground realities faced by communities affected by the industry.

🔗𝐙𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88449182793?pwd=f6S1igaWsKHZJmGGhmFbIplIhtSnuz.1

Meeting ID: 884 4918 2793
Passcode: 838383

About 79% of the budget allocated for the petroleum & natural gas ministry this year is meant for expanding the footprint of public sector oil & gas companies, contradicting India's tall talk on #SustainableEnergy.

Writes Swathi Seshadri in The Wire.
https://thewire.in/energy/indias-huge-thrust-on-petrochemical-industry-belies-its-tall-talk-on-sustainable-energy/

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Vol II Issue 33
🗓️ 1st September 2024

🏗️ Manufacturing myth? The Corridors of Uncertainty

🌳 Mirzapur's New Power Play: Thermal Plant vs. The Forest

⚠️ Webinar: Please Mind the Gap: De-concentrating Wealth, Combating Inequality

🌊 CAG report: Sardar Sarovar submerged in losses

https://heyzine.com/flip-book/e3800ad5f1.html
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India is ranked 45th in the Pension Grade System of 47 countries. The USA ranked 22nd is a capitalist country but 100% of its population is covered under a pension system. In most countries the employer, whether government or corporate, has to provide a pension to their employees. In India, pensions are being called a fiscal burden!

Writes Thomas Franco in #RandomReflections this week.
https://www.cenfa.org/pension-is-not-a-bounty-or-grace-it-is-the-right-of-every-worker/

𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬
𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞 𝟎𝟖, 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝟎𝟕, 𝟑𝟎 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒

𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑾𝒆𝒆𝒌

⭕Pension is not a bounty or grace, it is the right of every worker by Thomas Franco
https://bit.ly/pension-rr

⭕India's Huge Thrust on Petrochemicals Belies its Tall Talk on Sustainable Energy by Swathi Seshadri
https://bit.ly/petchem-energy

⭕Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemicals Investment Regions by Himanshu Upadhyaya
https://bit.ly/petchem-invtmt

⭕Inequality & the Two Indias - Voices from the Parliament | Flipbook
https://bit.ly/3Xx8SRU

⭕The Public-Private Partnership Story! By Nandinie Gupta, Gaurav Dwivedi, and Raktim Majumder
https://bit.ly/ppp-story
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https://bit.ly/3Xtvtyu

⭕Kutch on the Edge: Fragile Ecology and Environmental Crisis | Video
https://bit.ly/3XuUyci

⭕Corporates Pe Karam, Janata Pe Sitam! | Cracknomics | Video
https://bit.ly/4e8AKBa

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𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 is now on 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 and 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀𝗔𝗽𝗽. 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘬 https://xn--r1a.website/cfa_ind 𝘵𝘰 𝘫𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘛𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘭 channel and our WhatsApp channel at https://bit.ly/cfa-whatsapp and 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘶𝘱𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦.

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Plastics Fuel Infertility is a campaign which aims to shed light on the detrimental impacts of plastics across its full lifecycle on human health, livelihoods, the environment, and the climate.

Through this campaign, our goal is to juxtapose policies with ground realities and underscore the discrepancies within the development narrative that has encouraged the proliferation of the plastic and petrochemical industries in India and worldwide.

Watch our launch webinar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TURhBUgg4Is

𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬
𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞 𝟎𝟖, 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝟎𝟖, 𝟎𝟔 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒

𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑾𝒆𝒆𝒌

⭕India’s stark disparities have finally found voice in political discussions by Anirban Bhattacharya & Nancy Pathak
https://bit.ly/India-disparity

⭕Banks and Disaster Relief by Thomas Franco
https://bit.ly/banks-dr

⭕Where is My Interest Rate? | Unlocking banking for the people (Volume 1) by CFA & AIBOC
https://bit.ly/banking-vol1

⭕छोटे किसानों की अनदेखी: भारतीय कृषि का अनसुलझा संकट | Raj Kumar Sinha
https://bit.ly/small-farmers

⭕The OPS, NPS, UPS Pension Debate | Explainer
https://bit.ly/ups-explainer

⭕7th Smitu Kothari Fellowship 2024 Announcement
https://bit.ly/skf2024apply
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⭕Kutch on the Edge: The Human Cost of Polluting Industries | Video
https://bit.ly/47nunb8

⭕Do Employees Have a Right to Pension? | Cracknomics | Video
https://bit.ly/4efhEJB

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𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 is now on 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 and 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀𝗔𝗽𝗽. 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘬 https://xn--r1a.website/cfa_ind 𝘵𝘰 𝘫𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘛𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘭 channel and our WhatsApp channel at https://bit.ly/cfa-whatsapp and 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘶𝘱𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦.

🔹 POCKET MONEY
Brief on what they kept from you about your money this week

Vol II Issue 36
🗓 22nd September 2024

🧐 Tale of Two Indias

🤫 SEBI’s Shield of Secrecy Eroding Accountability Behind Claims of Privacy?

🌳 Global Uprising: United for a Fossil-Free Future and Climate Justice

🪙 RBI: Reflections on Priority Sector Lending

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