Massive forced evictions are happening across the country, esp in cities/towns where G20 events are being held. These meetings are happening in more than 50 cities in India. Wherever these meetings are being organised, city administrations in collusion with different departments – municipality, tourism, police etc. are evicting street vendors, waste pickers and traders, demolishing houses of urban poor, destroying night shelters, and displacing homeless people. And, this is being done in the name of removing “illegal encroachment” from urban spaces. In some cases, even the judiciary has not provided any relief to the affected communities. While it is happening in Delhi at a very large scale (Homeless people displaced, Demolition in Tughlakabad and Mehrauli, Demolition in Bela Estate at Yamuna, Destroyed Night shelters), the same happened in many other cities (Nagpur, Vizag, Pant Nagar, Ramnagar, Udhar Nagar, Guwahati, Mumbai, Mahabalipuram, Darjeeling) before G20 meetings. As more cities are going to host upcoming G20 meetings in the next three-four months, the urban poor face the threat of destruction of their houses and livelihood.

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Awadhesh Kumar of Srijan Lokhit Samiti speaking on the need to engage the wider audience on finance.

Magline P on the the impact of the infrastructure projects on women and how do they fight back.

Vishwas Utagi on Why the Government must Strengthen the Public Sector Banks?

Raju Bhise on What is Development for Ordinary Citizens?

T Peter on Who Benefits from the Coastal Infrastructure?

Ecological Civilisation is the Need of the Hour: Prof. H.M. Deserda

Alternative Infrastructure Financing from the Peoples’ Perspective: Prafulla Samantra

Ashok Chaudhary on the Loot in the Name of Development

Workshop on Water for Life, Not Profit: IFIs in Urban Water Supply [Discussants: Moderator: Afsar Jafri (Focus on Global South) Speakers: Rehmat (Manthan), Benny Kuruvila (TNI), Gaurav Dwivedi (CFA), Sitaram Shelar (Pani Haq Samiti)]

Prof. Arun Kumar on who is this Model of Economic Growth for?

The Key Infrastructure Projects are Anti-people: Medha Patkar

The Infrastructure being Pushed is not what the People Demand: Ulka Mahajan

Sucheta Dalal on the Growing Crisis in the Indian Banking Sector

Siddharth Chakravarty of The Research Collective explains the Blue Economy, its impact on the coastal economy, and the Role of IFIs.

Krishnakant of the Paryavaran Surakhsha Samiti, Gujarat on the rationale of the proposed bullet train between Mumbai and Ahmedabad.

Shalmali Guttal, Focus on the Global South, discusses the IFIs, PPPs, Infrastructure, and Economic Development.

एशियन इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर इन्वेस्टमेंट बैंक (AIIB), अब दुनिया की सबसे मजबूत और शक्तिशाली वित्तीय संस्था बन गई है । हाल में ही इसी वर्ष AIIB ने भारत में इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर योजनाओं के लिए 1.5 बिलियन डॉलर निवेश करने के लिए प्रतिबद्ध हुई है । इसका निश्चित तौर भारत की विकास योजनाओं के शेप और उसकी प्रकृति में एक गहरा प्रभाव होगा ।

Jesu Rathnam, Convenor, Coastal Action Network, on the coastal infrastructure and fishers struggle in India

Will the Sagarmala Project Destroy India’s Coasts?

Soumya Dutta, Beyond Copenhagen Collective and PAIRVI, linking IFIs, their push for Infrastructure, and impact on commons.

Nityanand Jayaraman on the Infrastructure projects in Tamil Nadu and their Impacts

Shaktiman Ghosh, National General Secretary of the National Hawkers Federation, on the IFIs and their Impact on People

Why Should People be Vigilant About Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank?

BloombergQuint The Fineprint | Are Gujarat farmers likely to succeed against World Bank’s lending arm IFC – International Finance Corporation? Vermont Law School’s John Echeverria & CFA’s Joe Athialy share their views.

‘Innovative Financing’ of Bangalore Metro

Amaravati: The price of a dream city – A documentary by Rohini Mohan for The News Minute

Smart Cities and International Financial Institutions

Transport and International Financial Institutions: Rajendra Ravi

Afzar Jaffri on The Water sector and International Financial Institutions

Holding IFIs responsible: Towards a Legal Treaty by Benny Kuruvilla

Medha Patkar on the Role of IFIs in the Development Agenda

Gautam Bandopadhya: Role of IFIs in the Development Agenda

Ease of doing Business or Corporate Loot? Maju Varghese

Role of IFIs in the Development Agenda – Ashok Choudhary

Ulka Mahajan on the Context of the Role of IFIs in the Development Agenda

Medha Patkar on ADB

Gustad Wadia speaking at Surat

Rajkumar Sinha on ADB’s investments in Madhya Pradesh

NHF West Bengal’s Human Chain against 50 years of ADB at Howrah Bridge

Punjab NHF’s meeting against ADB and other IFIs at Amritsar

Indore Hawker Association protests against ADB and Smart City project

T. Peter, General Secretary, National Fishworkers Forum(NFF) / Kerala Swathantra Matsya Thozhilali Federation (KSMTF) on the impact of ADB’s loans on the fisheries and fishing communities in India.

How east and west corridors in India will affect Kaveri delta region

ADB’s impact on the urban transport and urban development of the third world

Yogesh Diwan on the privatisation of electricity in Madhya Pradesh

Impact of ADB and other IFIs on Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

Dr Sunilam on the impact of privatisation of electricity & water in MP

Eminent environmental lawyer Ritwick Dutta exposes ADB

Xavier Dias on how tribals view IFIs in India

Rajkumar Sinha, Bagri Dam Displaced and Affected Association, Madhya Pradesh, on ADB’s investments in Madhya Pradesh.

Gajendrasinh Jadeja, sarpanch, Mundra, narrates how ADB funded Tata Mundra power project has affected the local cattle herders, agriculture in the Kutch region.

Bharat Patel, general secretary of the Machimar Adhikar Sangathan, Mundra, Kutch, Gujarat, on the impact of Tata Mundra power project on the fishermen and marine ecology.

Awadhesh Kumar of Srijan Lokhit Samiti, Singrauli, MP, on the impact of the coal power plants on the environment and people, and how it has lead to the loss of traditional knowledge and the increase of crime in the society.

Shalmali Guttal, executive director, Focus on Global South, speaks on the accountability and immunity of the ADB.

Suresh Dipala, an environmental lawyer from Hyderabad, on the ADB’s funding of Amaravati, the capital of Andhra Pradesh, and the environmental danger it entails.

Ashok Shrimali,  secretary general, mines, minerals and PEOPLE, on how infrastructure projects funded by the IFIs are threatening the culture and way of life of the indigenous communities in India.

Ravi Rebbapragada, chairperson, mines, minerals and PEOPLE, on the 50 years of ADB.

Debi Goenka, Executive Trustee, Conservation Action Trust, on the agenda of the International Finance Institutions.

Earth Scientist and Founding member of Environics Trust, Sreedhar Ramamurthi on how Asian Development Bank (ADB) funded clean energy programs are causing environmental destruction in India.

Shripad Dharmadhikary of the Manthan Adhyayan Kendra, Pune, on the ADB’s role in the privatisation of water in India.

Nityanand Jayaraman, an environmental activist and journalist,  wishing a happy birthday to the Asian Development Bank and emphasising that it needs to be more transparent and serve the needy.

Vijay Kumar of the CPI ML Red Star, Madhya Pradesh, shares his experiences from the ground on the impact of the projects funded by the IFIs on the electricity and urban development in Madhya Pradesh.

Anant Jauhari of the Kisan Adhikar Manch speaking on the model propagated by the ADB and other International Financial Institutions, and how it promotes inequality.

Saktiman Ghosh, president, National Hawker Federation (NHF), shares why the National Hawker Federation (NHF), the largest federation of different hawkers’ and street-vendors’ unions, organizations and associations in India, is against the Asian Development Bank and other International Financial Institutions.

Amulya Nidhi of the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, Madhya Pradesh, shares his experiences from the ground on the impact of the projects funded by the Asian Development Bank.

Soumya Dutta, researcher, activist, and author of over eight books on climate, energy, and related environment issues, on the Asian Development Bank – ADB’s funding in Tata Mundra and other projects which are causing #environmental degradation in India.