Centre for Financial Accountability

🎥 Telltale Stories: A Multimedia Workshop on Ethical Narrative Building Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA) and HOPE, with the support of @thewire_in, are organising a 3-day residential workshop focused on ethical storytelling and multimedia media practice. 📍Location: New Delhi 📅 Dates: 1–3 April 2026 The workshop is designed for media and communication professionals from NGOs, civil society organisations, people’s movements, community initiatives, researchers, and independent journalists who want to strengthen how they document, narrate, and amplify ground realities. ✨ The workshop will cover: • Ethical & people-centred storytelling • Mobile video & podcast production • Media engagement & social media strategy • Data storytelling & responsible AI use • Digital safety and navigating surveillance 🏠 Food & accommodation provided 💰 Nominal participation fee: ₹2500 (travel not covered) 🎓 Certificate of Completion 🗣 Primary language: English 👉 Register here: forms.gle/uoCoSHbgtEe1Dn… 🔗 For more details: cenfa.org/telltale-stori…

🚨 Banking Industry on the Brink of a Nationwide Strike Again – DFS Responsible🏦 Tensions are rising across India’s banking sector as serious concerns emerge over policy decisions, alleged violations of bipartite settlements, and growing inequality in incentive distribution. From staff shortages and work-life imbalance to the delay in five-day banking, the unrest among bank employees is deepening—raising the possibility of another nationwide strike. ⚠️ ✍️ Writes @alwaysfranc in his latest Random Reflections 📖 cenfa.org/banking-indust… #AIBOC #WorkersRights #CollectiveBargaining #LabourMovement #randomreflections

🛣️ From Varanasi to Kanpur, land is being acquired without consent of people; but raising questions is considered unlawful ✍🏽 @ShekharnotSekar in @down2earthindia downtoearth.org.in/governance/fro…

Interview | Are Indian Corporations Complicit in Israel's Genocide in Gaza Vrinda Gopinath✍️ thewire.in/business/inter…

.@vrinda_gopinath talks to Hajira Puthige on Indian corporations' complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza. m.thewire.in/article/busine…

Based on two reports - “From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide”, by Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur and @cfa_ind’s “Profit and Genocide: Indian Investments in Israel” by Hajira Puthige - @vijayprashad & Sudhanva Deshpande write how many countries continue to provide political support for the Israeli genocide and broad-ranging military support for the mass killings. peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/01/ind…

India Should Know That in the Face of Genocide, Silence is Complicity India’s current approach stands in sharp contrast to its own history. Hajira Puthige✍️ thewire.in/world/india-sh…

Hajira Puthige of the Centre for Financial Accountability in New Delhi wrote a report called “Profit and Genocide: Indian Investments in Israel”, which details the complicity of the Indian billionaire class and their corporations. peoplesdispatch.org/2025/10/01/ind…

🚨 New Report Released 🚨 📑 Profit and Genocide: Indian Investments in Israel ✍️ By Hajira Puthige | Centre for Financial Accountability The report uncovers how Indian corporations, both state-owned and private, are entangled with Israel’s economy of occupation and genocide. From defence and tech to agriculture, water and labour, Indian capital is directly linked to projects sustaining Israel’s military campaigns and settler-colonial practices. It shows how arms trade, Adani’s ventures, tech giants like TCS, Infosys and Reliance, Jain Irrigation, and partnerships with Mekorot tie India to war crimes and apartheid. Even as the genocide in Gaza escalates, India has deepened bilateral trade and signed a new investment treaty with Israel. 🔗Read the full report: cenfa.org/profit-genocid… #ProfitAndGenocide #FreePalestine #StopGenocideInGaza #Gaza #EndApartheid #Palestine

Government’s own data exposes a shocking distortion: FCI rice is being sold cheaper to private distilleries for ethanol production than to States feeding people. States paid up to Rs. 34/kg, while distilleries got it at just Rs. 20 - 23.20/kg. States pay more, corporates pay less. Result: Rs. 4,000+ crore cumulative sacrifice of public funds. Processed food grain is cheaper for corporates than for feeding the poor! Is this policy for people - or for private profit? #rajyasabha #ethanol #blended #fci

Credit score over merit? This is outright injustice!! Govt admits appointment offers of 20 candidates in Public Sector Banks were cancelled during last 3 years due to insufficient CIBIL/credit history - SBI alone accounts for Eleven!! It effectively penalizes candidates for ‘financial vulnerability’, particularly those from poor and middle class backgrounds who may have taken educational or medical loans in good faith but are struggling to repay them on due dates due to lack of employment. Even one unjust exclusion from public employment is unacceptable - 20 is indefensible. This sets a dangerous precedent: socio-economic background becoming a silent filter in public recruitment, undermining the constitutional promise of equality of opportunity in public employment. #ibps #bankjobs #rajyasabha

📢✨ NEW PUBLICATION A Review of Pradhan Mantri Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana Scheme⚡🏠 ✍️ Deepmala Patel @DeepmalaPatel82 and Pranay Raj The government’s flagship rooftop solar scheme promises “free electricity”, but how affordable and accessible is it in reality? This report explores the true costs, who benefits the most, and the barriers low-income households face in adopting rooftop solar under the scheme.📊💰 As India moves towards clean energy, the question remains: Can the transition also be fair and inclusive? 🔗 Read the full report: cenfa.org/a-review-of-pr…

बराबरी का बसंत | गैरबराबरी के खिलाफ कविता कविता प्रतियोगिता में भाग लें: एक असरदार कविता बनाएं, जो अभियान पोस्टर का काम करे! अपना कविता यहाँ सबमिट करें (कॉन्सेप्ट नोट भी देखें) forms.gle/xT4xTW1jjXdb3y… #StandAgainstInequality

🔥 Barabari ka Basant | Poets Against Inequality ✍🏾 ✍🏾Participate in the Poetry Competition: Share an impactful Poem that should serve as Campaign material! 🔗 Submit your Poem here (Also find the concept note): forms.gle/xT4xTW1jjXdb3y… #StandAgainstInequality

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Meet the session leads! (More session leads to follow) 👉 Register here: rebrand.ly/Stories-worksh… 🔗 For more details: cenfa.org/telltale-stori… The workshop is designed for media and communication professionals from NGOs, civil society organisations, people’s movements, community initiatives, researchers, and independent journalists who want to strengthen how they document, narrate, and amplify ground realities. ✨ The workshop will cover: •⁠ ⁠Ethical & people-centred storytelling •⁠ ⁠Mobile video & podcast production •⁠ ⁠Media engagement & social media strategy •⁠ ⁠Data storytelling & responsible AI use •⁠ ⁠Digital safety and navigating surveillance 🏠 Food & accommodation provided 💰 Nominal participation fee: ₹2500 (travel not covered) 🎓 Certificate of Completion 🗣 Primary language: English

New evidence suggests India misestimated annual economic growth rate during the past two decades. Growth in boom years 2005-2011 may have been underestimated by ~1–1.5 percentage points; Growth from 2012-2023 overestimated by ~1.5-2 percentage points. piie.com/publications/w…