18th to 20th december news

18^TH DECEMBER

INDIA US STANDOFF: DIMPLOMATIC SPAT: WITHDRAW PRIVLEDGES, WITHDRAW AIRPORT PASSES, STOP IMPORT CLEARANCES, ID CARDS MANDATORY, DETAILS OF SALARIES PAID TO INDIAN STAFF.

WTO: SUNSET CLAUSE (4 YEARS) VS PEACE CLAUSE (10 YEARS) (FOOD SECURITY): MDGs; COMING OF REGIONAL AGREEMENTS AS AN ATERNATIVE

FDI

RECESSION, MFG DECLINE, INFLATION, POOR INFRA, INVESTOR SENTIMENT, RE DEPRECIATION, CAD, FD

INTERNATIONAL MODEL: QFI, FII, FDI

DOMESTIC SOURCES: PPP

FDI: TECHNOLOGY, INFRASTRUCTURE AND HR

ARVIND MAYARAM: 26% TO 49%: AUTOMATIC ROUTE; CRITICAL SECTOR: APPROVAL ROUTE

SINGLE BRAND: PRODUCTION AND SALE UNDER SAME HEAD

MULTIBRAND: EMPLOYMENT IN URBAN AREAS, LIVELYHOOD OF MOM N POP SHOP, AGRICULTURE PRODUCE MONOPSONISATION: INFLATIONARY POTENTIAL (FIRST RIGHTS TO INDIAN COMPANIES), IMPACT ON PROPERTY RATES AND LAND ACQUISITION

1.      30% GOODS FROM MSMEs

2.      BACKEND INFRASTRUCTURE: FARM TO FORK:

3.      MILLION PLUS CITIES: 53 CITIES

4.      NO E COMMERCIAL PLATFORM

5.      FIRST RIGHT OF PROCUREMENT TO DOMESTIC FIRMS

2013: ALL CLAUSES WERE DROPPED AS THESE WERE SEEN AS RESTRICTIVE NORMS AND NONE OF MAJOR MULTIBRAND RETAILERS CAME THROUGH: IN THE LIGHT OF BURGEONING CAD THESE NORMS WERE RELAXED. TESCO IS THE FIRST TO SEEK MBR SLOT (BRITISH) THROUGH 50% STAKE IN TREND (TATA)

MGNREGA

NEED: WAGE EMPLOYMENT, COMMUNITY ASSET, EMPOWERING PRIs (goals)

1.      CHECK DISTRESS MIGRATION

2.      AGRICULTURAL PROBLEMS: PRODUCTIVITY, FRAGMENTATION, SEASONAL AND DISGUISED UNEMPLOYMENT

3.      MDGs GOALS, HDI, LIVELYHOOD AND EMPLOYMENT

4.      WOMEN FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT

5.      COMMUNITY ASSET CONSTRUCTION: PHYSI

6.      EMPOWERMENT OF PRIs

7.      SPILLOVERS: POSITIVE POTENTIAL EXTERNALITIES

8.      ARTICLE 21,39,41,FINANCIAL- SOCIAL INCLUSION: RIGHTS BASED APPROACH (NREGA 2.0)

MEASURES TO IMPROVE

1.      PENALTY PROVISIONS (SECTION 25)

2.      SUSTAINABLE ASSETS

3.      TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUTABLITY: SOCIAL AUDIT, GHOST BENE, TIMELY PAYMENTS, MIS, FMS, MINIMUM FLOOR WAGE

4.      CONVERGENCE OF PROGS:IAY,NBA, PMGSY

5.      AGRICULTURE PRODUCTIVITY: SELF ENTROPY

6.      AREA SPECIFIC PROGRAMMES

7.      DAYS EMPLOYMENT COVERAGE

MIHIR SHAH

1.      PERMANENT AND DURABLE ASSETS

2.      USE OF MIS AND FMS

3.      AADHAR AND DBT LINKED PAYMENT

4.      INCREASING THE ROLE OF MGNREGA

5.      WAGE BASED ON PERFORMANCE AND NOT ATTENDANCE

6.      INCREASE THE NO OF DAYS TO 180

7.      MINIMUM WAGE LEVEL OF STATE

8.      TAKING HELP OF SOCIAL INNOVATORS: MANGAL TURBINE, BHARATLAXMI CHULA (PRIYA DARSHANI KARVE: SMOKELESS)

9.      SELECTION OF PROJECT THE GRAM SABHA WILL TAKE CONSENT OF ALL PEOPLE OF VILLAGE

10.  ONLY KERELA IS A SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTOR OF THIS PROG

AHEAD OF POLLS, CENTRE MAKES MAJOR CHANGES IN MGNREGA

1.      PENALTY IN DELAY OF WAGES

2.      RS. 10000 FOR CONSTRUCTION OF TOILETS

3.      ASSISTANCE FOR SETTING OF SHGs FEDERATIONS

4.      PERFORMANCE BASED WAGES NOT ATTENDANCE BASED

5.      CONVERGANCE OF SCHEMES

6.      QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY OF THE FARM LAND

GOVT. SCHEMES FOR TOILET CONSTRUCTION: NBA, MANUAL SCAVENGING ACT, IAY, NREGA, RAY

PROGRAMMES FOR SHGs FEDERATION: MICRO FINANCE, EDUCATION, SECURITY

1.      NULM

2.      MGNREGA

3.      NRLM

4.      SABLA

5.      SWAYAM SIDDHA

MARS ORBITOR

US : MAVEN, ISRO: MoM: ISRO TELEMETRY, TRACKING AND COMMAND NETWORK

·         TROPIC OF CANCER: GUJARAT, RAJASTHAN, MP, CHHATTISGARH, JHARKHAND, WB, TRI, MIZO

·         TRIBES: OHH??, AKMA, APATANI: ARUNACHAL, DMAM

UNFINISHED REFORMS: WOMEN RIGHTS ISSUE

HUNGAMA REPORT ABOUT STEREOTYPING, GLASS CEILING EFFECT, GLOBALISATION IMPACT AFTER 1991, PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY,  NCRB: VULNERABLE COUNTRY: RAPE

1997: VISHAKHA JUDGEMENT: PROTECTION OF WOMEN FROM SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT WORKPLACE (PROHIBITION, PREVENTION AND REDRESSAL) ACT 2013

NIRBHAY FUND: 1000 cr: (MoW&CD) WOMEN SECURITY, ALL WOMEN BANK, ACID ATTACK: POISON ACT AMENDMENT; Cr LAW AMENDMENT ACT: VOUYERISM, STALKING, HARASSMENT

CRTICISM: EVEN THE COURTS DON’T HAVE SPL CELL, AFSPA PROVISIONS OF IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION, MALE DOMINATED HIGHER INSTITUTIONS (TEHELKA: TARUN TEJPAL, JUSTICE GANGULY), MARTIAL RAPE, AGE OF CONSENT

SOLUTION

1.      AWARENESS ABOUT PROVISIONS OF LEGISLATIONS,

2.      COUNSELLING

3.      POLICE REFORMS: HR

INDIA AFGANISTAN:

ISAF WITHDRAWL: TERRORISM: HAQQANI, LeT, TALIBAN: INDIA IMPACT; IRANs WORRIES: US PRESENCE

APRIL 2014 ELECTIONS: BILATERAL SECURITY AGREEMENT ISSUE: AFTER THE ELECTIONS WILL SIGN THE AGREEMENT: WITHDRAWL OF THE 8000 US TROOPS THREAT GIVEN BY US (GREEN BARROTS): INDIA SUPPORTS US ON THIS

AFGAN WANTS INDIAs SUPPORT: A. TO TRAIN THE ARMED FORCES (NOT POSSIBLE TO TRAIN WHOLE MILITARY BUT ONLY OFFICERS)

B. 2^nd ARMS AND AMMUNITIONS ---NOT READY

C) LOGISTICS SUPPORT (TECHNICAL SKILLS)—YES

RIGHT TO HEALTHCARE

TROPICAL COUNTRY: HIGH MOISTURE AND HUMIDITY: VECTOR BOURNE DISEASES ALONG WITH POOR HYGIENE AND KNOWLEDGE---COMMUNICABLE; NONCOMMUNICABLE DISEASES

HEALTH PROBLEMS: WASTAGE OF DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND, POVERTY, POSITION OF WOMEN, MALNUTRITION

HUGE OUT OF POCKET EXPENDITURE: LACK OF PUBLIC HEALTH

HEALTH/GDP: 1.2%: NON INCLUSIVE APPROACH

RIGHT BASED APPROACH: DPCO 2013, FREE SCREENING, VARIOUS PROGRAMMES,  PMSY

UHC: REDDY: PVT HOSPITALS INTO PUBLIC HOSPITALS, BASE RATE OF MEDICINES, GDP SUPPORT TO 3%

SOLUTION: WOMEN EMPOWERMENT, NRHM, NUHM, AWARENESS

STRONG PROVISIONS, WEAK IMPLEMENTATION: CHILD RIGHTS

POSCO 2012: NCRB : INDIA IS VULNERABLE: 55%: 6 YRS TO 18 YRS; <18 YRS : 40% POPLN

CONDITIONS OF SHELTER HOMES, PORNOGRAPHIC USES,

INDIAs SIGNATORY OF UNCPCR:

1.       SURVIVAL: ICDS

2.       PROTECTION,: ICPS

3.       DEVELOPMENT:

4.       PARTICIPATION: BAL PANCHAYAT

POSCO:

1.      DEFINATION OF CHILDREN: DIFFERENT FROM ADULT

2.      SEXUAL HARASSMENT , PENETRATIVE SEXUAL ASSAULT, S ASSAULT AND PORNOGRAGHY

3.      GRADED PUNISHMENT: AGGRIVATED (INTENSITY OF CRIME)

4.      IN CAMERA REPORTING, RECORDING AND INVESTIGATION AND TRIAL

5.      SPL JUVINILE POLICE FORCE IN CASUAL DRESS AT CHOICE OF VICTIMs VENUE

6.      PROV OF TRANSLATOR

7.      TRIAL LIMIT FOR 1 YR

8.      COMPENSATION (ST0 AND REHABILITATION (LT)

9.      FREE MEDICAL TREATMENT WITHOUT ANY DOCUMENTS

10.  HENIOUS CRIME: BURDEN ON ACCUSED

11.  SPL CHILDREN COURTS AND NO IN PERSON PARADE

CRITICISM: 1. AWARENESS

1.      LACK OF IMPLEMENTATION

2.      NON CONSTITUTION OF STATE COMMISSION FOR PROTECTION OF CHILD RIGHTS (PUNJAB, HARYANA AND CHANDIGARH)

3.      THE COMMISIONS ARE HARDLY FUNCTIONAL AND EFFECTIVE

UNIFORM ANTI CORRUPTION ROADMAP FOR CENTRE AND STATE

STRUCTURE:

1.      SELECTION CMT: PM, CJI OR AGE, SPEAKER, LOO, EMINENT JURIST PLUS SEARCH CMT (7 MEMBERS)

2.      LEGISLATIONS COVERED: CVC, COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ACT, CrPC, CBI, PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION ACT 1988

3.      COMMISSION COMPOSITION: MAX 8 MEMBERS: 50% RESERVATION FOR VULNERABLE SECTIONS; 4 MEMBERS FROM JUDICIARY: CHAIRMAN 75 YRS AND 5 YRS

4.      UNIFORM VIGILANCE AND ANTI CORRUPTION ROAD MAP

5.      WILL INCLUDE PM EXCEPT ON CERTAIN ISSUES, JURISDICTION OVER MINISTERS AND MPs, GRADE A B C D, A B---LOKPAL; C D---CVC---REPORT TO LOKPAL

6.      DIRECTORATE OF PROSECUTION UNDER THE CBI APPTED BY COLLEGIUM

7.      LOKPAL TO HAVE SUPRETENDENCE OVER CBI

8.      INQUIRY WING AND PROSECUTION WING

US MOVES INTERCEPTOR MISSILES TO GUAM

TENSION IN THE KOREAN PENINSULA ESCALATES AGAIN AS US SHIFTS THAAAD TO GUAM

·         YAKUT & SCANKDER MISSLE OF RUSSIA TRANSFERRED TO IRAN

THE SC DIRECTED THE CHIEF SECRETARIES TO PUT AN END TO SEXUAL HARASSMENT OF CHILDREN:

LEGISLATIONS: POCSO, RTE, NCPCR ACT 2005; CONSTITUTION: 21,21A, 23, 24,45 & 51A (k)

RBI OUTLINES ACTION PLAN TO TACKLE NPAs

NPA: STALLING OF ECONOMY, POOR INVESTMENT SENTIMENT, MANUFACTURING BLUES, RISING NPAs IN THE RECENT TIMES HAS COMPROMISED THE INTEGRITY OF THE SECTOR.

MECHANISMS TO CHECK: LOK ADALAT, SARFESI, ARCs, DEBT RECOVERY TRIBUNALS, PROVISIONING NORMS: 90 DAYS AND 180 DAYS

DISCUSSION PAPER: EARLY RECOGNITION OF FINANCIAL DISTRESS, PROMPT STEPS FOR RESOLUTION AND FAIR RECOVERY FOR LENDERS: COREECTIVE ACTION PLAN TO MINIMISE NPAs: EARLY IDENTIFICATION, TIMELY RESTRUCTURING OF ACCOUNT, STEPS FOR RECOVERY AND SALE OF UNVIABLE ACCOUNTS

1.      CENTRAL REPOSITORY OF INFORMATION ON LARGE CREDITS (CRILC): COLLECT, STORE, AND DISSEMINATE DATA TO LENDERS: BANKS WILL FUNISH DATA TO CRILC FOR BORROWERS ABOVE 5 CR, CURRENT ACCOUNTS 1 CR AND ABOVE,

2.      NEW SUB ASSET CATEGORY BEFORE IT TURNING NPA: SPECIAL MENTION ACCOUNTS SMA-NF: NON FINANCIAL SIGNALS OF STRESS; SMA 1: PRINICIPAL AND INT OVERDUE BTW 31-60 DAYS; SMA 2: OVERDUE BTW 61-90 DAYS

19^TH DECEMBER

PUBLIC PROCUREMENT BILL 2007, GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL BILL, ,

WHISTLE BLOWERS BILL 2011

1.      DEFINATION OF WB: ACT OF DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION BY EMPLOYEE OR PUBLIC ABOUT CORRUPTION, ILLEGAL OR UNETHICAL PRACTICE BY AN ORGANISATION

2.      ALLEGATIONS OF CORRUPTION OR WILFUL MISUSE OF POWER, PROVIDES SAFEGUARD AGAINST VICTIMISATION OF DISCLOSING PERSOM

3.      INITIATIVE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN A TRANSPARENT GOVT

4.      EMPOWER THE CVC TO GUARANTEE POLICE PROTECTION TO WBs

BACKGROUND: JUDICIAL ACTVISM

LAW COMMISSION REPORT 2001, 2004: SATYENDRA DUBEY AND SC ACTIVISM: 2004 GOVT RESOLUTION TO PROTECT WBs, 2007: 2^ND ARC, UN CONVENTION AGT CORRUPTION

HIGHLIGHTS OF BILL

1.      PROTECT WBs MAKING PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURE (CORRUPTION, MISUSE OF POWER, CRIMINAL OFFENCE)

2.      MAY MAKE DISCLOSURE TO CVC OR SVC

3.      IDENTITY OF WB IS NECESSARY

4.      VCs RESPONSIBILITY

5.      CVC DOES NOT HAVE THE POWER TO IMPOSE PENALTIES

6.      DIFFERS FROM ARC: LACK OF PENALTIES OF THOSE WHO VICTIMISE

7.       

PUBLIC PROCUREMENT BILL 2012

1.      PROCUREMENT OF GOODS, WORKS AND SERVICES BY GOVT AGENCIES: PROVIDING PUBLIC SERVICES

2.      PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IS AN EXTENSION OF PVT PROCUREMENT WITH AN EXTENTION IN TERMS OF TRANSPARENCY AND FAIRNESS WHILE MAINTAINING THE CANNONS OF VALUE FOR MONEY, GOOD QUALITY PRODUCT, TIMELY DELIVERY : ENHANCING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

3.      EXTENT OF THE TURNOVER: 30% OF GDP

4.      BASED ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF CMT ON PUBLIC PROCUREMENT HEADED BY VINOD DHALL

5.      PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PORTAL: TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY, FAIRNESS, ENFORCEBLITY: TYPES OF TENDER,

PROVISIONS:

1.      CODIFYING THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES

2.      ENSURING MAXIMUM COMPETITION

3.      ADEQUATE FLEXIBLITY ACC TO NEEDS

4.      PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PORTAL AND GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL SYSTEM

5.      OPEN COMPETITIVE BIDDING AS PREFFERED METHOD

6.      PRO REDRESSAL CMT

7.      PENALTIES FOR CORRUPTION AND PUNISHMENT  : OFFER AND ACCEPTANCE

8.      EXEMPTS CERTAIN PROCUREMENTS

9.      DOES NOT RESTRICT USE OF COST PLUS CONTRACTS

RIGHT OF CITIZENS FOR TIME BOUND DELIVERY OF GOODS AND SERVICES AND REDRESSAL OF THEIR GRIEVANCES BILL 2011

1.      PUBLIC AUTHORITY TO PUBLISH A CITIZENS CHARTER WITHIN 6 MONTHS

2.      LEGAL RIGHTS OF CITIZENS

3.      STATUTORY BACKING TO CC

4.      INFORMATION AND FACILITATION CENTRE TO BE ESTABLISHED

5.      APPT OF GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL OFFICERS AT ALL LEVELS--à DESIGNATED AUTHORITY (30 DAYS)--à SPGRC/CPGRC (60 DAYS)---à LOKPAL/LOKAYUKTA

6.      PENALTY AGT OFFICIAL: RS 50000

7.      ISSUES: IMPLEN MACHINERY, JURISDICTION CLARITY, STAFFING, STATE JURISDICTION

THE PREVENTION OF BRIBERY OF FOREIGN PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND OFFICIALS OF PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS BILL, 2011

1.      EXPAND THE REACH OF INDIAS ANTI CORRUPTION REGIME

2.      EMPOWERS THE CG TO ENTER INRTO AGREEMENT WITH OTHER COUNTRIES FOR ENFORCING THIS LAW AND INFO EXCH

NURSERY ADMISSION GUIDELINES: JUDICIAL ACTIVISM, EDUCATION REFORMS

Criterion

1.      NEIGHBOURHOOD

2.      SIBLING STDYING IN SCHOOL

3.      PARENT ALUMINI

4.      INTER TRANSFER CASE

·         NO MANAGEMENT QUOTA, RTE NORMS EXTENDED IN PVT UNAIDED INTTS TOO, 25% RESERVATION FOR EWS

RBI KEEPS POLICY RATES UNCHANGED

·         SERVICE SECTOR LAKADAISICAL, DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION WEAK, EXP CUTS BY THE GOVT TO PUT PRESSURE ON GROWTH, REVIVAL OF STALLED INV, INFLATION HIGH BUT TRAJECTORY UNCERTAIN, FALLING VEGETABLE PRICES

WESTERN GHATS CONSERVATION AND FARMERS MAY BE STAKEHOLDERS

HOTSPOTS

S AMERICA: GALAPAGOS ISLAND, AMAZON FOREST

AFRICA: DRC, MADAGASCAR (AYE AYE, LEMUR)—PRIMATES

INDONESIAN JUNGLES: AURAN GUTAN

PHILIPPINES: PNG

INDIA: 4 MAJOR: W GHATS, A&N, WESTERN HIMALAYAS AND EASTERN HIMALAYAS

EAST ASIAN JUNGLES: INCL CHINA

CONIFERS FOREST OF RUSSIA AND CANADA

ARTIC & ANTARTICA: WHALE, KRILLS, PENGUINS, SEA BIRDS, SEALS (MPA); POLAR BEARS, WALRUS (SEA LIONS), SEAL {ARCTIC}

WESTERN GHATS ARE IMP FOR BAUXITE, MANGANESE, IRON ORE, TEAK WOOD AND CLAY; TOURISM; HYDRO POWER; RESIDENTIAL OUTREACH: CAUSING DEGRADATION

MADHAV GADGIL: ECO FRAGILE ZONE

ECO SENSITIVE AREAS: MINOR MODIFICATION WOULD ALSO BE DISRUPTIVE: FAO, UNEP AND: ECO SYSTEM SERVICES: INTERACTION BTW BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC SYSTEMS

SERVICES LIKE: PURIFICATION OF AIR, HUMIFICATION OF SOIL: ORGANIC FARMING, POLLINATION: BIODIVERSITY, CARBON STORAGE, RECHARGE OF GROUND WATER, PURIFICATION OF GRD WATER, PRESERVATION OF TRANDN BREEDS, WATERSHED CONSERVATION, MULTIPLE CROP FARMING

ZONATION: ZONE 1: NOT ALLOW ANYTHING: NOT EVEN REASERCH

ZONE 2: RESEARCH ALLOWED

ZONE 3: RED INDUSTRIES ARE NOT ALLOWED

INDUSTRIES: RED, GREEN AND ORANGE

KASTURIRANGAN CMT

1.      ECOLOGICAL SENSITIVE ZONES: NO FARMING, INFRA, AVIATION, INDUSTRY, TRANSPORT: 10 KM RADIUS

2.      HALTING THE PROJECTS: MAHA: SINDHDURG MINING AREA, GOA: FE AND MAG, KARNATAKA: GUNDIA HYDROPOWER AND FE MINING, KERELA: ATHIRAPILLAI AND BAUXITE

3.      PRESERVE ECO SYSTEM SERVICES

4.      FOLLOW THE RECOMM OF FAO AND UNEP

5.      COMPENSATION TO PPL WHSE LIVELYHOOD ARE DEPENDENT ON FORESTS

ECONOMIC COMPENSATION PROG , PPL PART IN ENV CONSERVATION, PAYMENTS FOR ECO SYS SERVICES, 

OBJECTIVE OF RTE

1.      INFRASTRUCTURE OF EDUCATION

2.      UNIVERSALISATION OF PRIMARY EDUCATION

3.      QUALITY AND PEDAGOGY OF EDUCATION

4.      UTILISATION OF DEMOGRAGHIC DIVIDEND

MONETARY POLICY ANALYSIS: WAIT AND WATCH

POLICY RATES NOT CHANGED: REPO RATE 7.75 AND CRR AT 4%

SRI LANKA ISSUE

1.      ETHINIC ISSUE

2.      MARITIME ISSUE

3.      ECONOMIC ISSUE

UNCLOS: SEA BOUNDARIES: INLAND WATERSàTERRITORIAL WATERS(12 NM)àCONTIGUOUS ZONE (12NM)àEXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE (200NM)àHIGH SEA (INTERNATIONAL SEABED AUTHORITY: OCEANIC BED RESOURCES)

A.    BREACH OF SOVEREIGNITY: DOMESTIC LAWS

B.     CONVENTION ON CONTINENTAL SHELF: DEMARCATION BASED ON EEZ AND CONTINENTAL SHELF

C.     CONVENTION ON HIGH SEA: RESOURCES OR TRADE: NO RESTRICTION BY ANY COUNTRY

D.    CONVENTION ON FISHERIES OR OCEANIC RESOURCES: EEZ: SOVEREIGN RIGHT OF THE COUNTRY; HIGH SEA: OPEN RIGHT OF ALL UN NATIONS

MARITIME DISPUTE: TAMIL NADU FISHERMEN: BREACHING THE TERRITORIAL BOUNDARY: FISHING SHOAL IN SL (KACCHATHEVU): GPS SYSTEM TRAWLERS

2013: LARGEST BREACH: 600 INDIANS ARRESTED: TRADITIONAL RIGHT; LIVELYHOOD ISSUE

INDIAN FISHERMAN HAVE BEEN VIOLATING THE INTERNATIONAL MARITIME BOUNDARY LINE WHICH DEFINES RESPECTIVE FISHING ZONES

UN CONVENTION ON LAW OF NON NAVIGATIONAL WATER RESOURCE OF COUNTRIES: SHARING OF RIVER WATER AND OTHER WATER BODIES

INFORMATION ACTIVISM

AMENDMENT TO RTI: PARLIAMENTARY CMT: NO ISSUE OF CIC: 2 h POLITICAL PARTIES AS PUBLIC AUTHORITY

CMT SAID THAT NO NEED OF AMENDMENT AS PP PROVODES DETAILS TO ECI (EXPENDITURE WITHIN 90 DAYS), AFTER ECLECTION DECLARATION OF ASSETS IN FRONT OF ETHICS CMT.

RTI(AMEND) 2013: CIC ORDER TO BE NULLIFIED MAKING PP PUBLIC AUTHORITIES: DIFFERS THE OPINION FROM AG

SYRIA ISSUE

BORDERS: LEBANON, IRAQ, JORDAN, ISRAEL, TURKEY, MEDITERRANEAN SEA

MEDITERRANEAN: GIBRALTARàGULF OF LIONS (MARSEILLE)àDARDANESàBOSPHOROUS

GULF OF AQABA AND GULF OF SUEZ :{ RIFT ZONE}: ZONE OF CONVERGENCE OF EUROPE, ASIA AND AFRICA

1.      SHIA VERSUS SUNNI: SHIA: SYRIA (RULING REGIME), HAMAMS, LEBANON, IRAN, BHARAIN; ALL OTHERS COUNTRIES HAVE SUNNI PREDOMINANCE

2.      US VERSUS RUSSIA: TARTUS PORT: SYRIAN PORT: TO RUSSIA AND IRAN: RUSSIA DEVELOPING COMMAND THERE: IN CONFLICT WITH NATO

3.      RIC SUPPORTS ASSAD REGIME

4.      BLACK SEA IS A STRATEGIC ZONE: E EUROPE AND RUSSIA: THE ZONE OF INFLUENCE OF US WOULD BE RESTRICTED:  “SYRIA, THE NEW AFGANISTAN?”

TURKEY

1.      IT SUPPORTS US: US INSTALLED PATRIOT MISSILES: SYRIAN BORDER

2.      TURKEY, ISRAEL: COUNTERING SYRIA, IRAN, HIZBULLA, PALESTINE

3.      GEO STRATEGIC ZERO SUM SAME FOR US AND OTHER WORLD POWERS

SYRIA ISSUE

2010: ARAB SPRING FLARES UP: PRO DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT: UNHRC

SANCTIONS OVER SYRIA: FALLING INTO A CIVIL WAR: CONVERTED INTO A SHIA VS SUNNI ISSUE AND ROLE OF OUTSIDERS

KOFI ANNAN PANEL: 6 POINT AGENDA

1.      CEASE FIRE FROM BOTH SIDES

2.      FREE MOVT OF JOURNALISTS

3.      CONSTITUTIONAL DEVT

4.      RTC

CONVERTED INTO A GEO STRATEGIC ZONE: RUSSIA VS US: PROXY WAR BTE: SNC AND SYRIAN GOVT: INITIATION OF 2^ND COLD WAR

THE OPTION OF UNSC RTP WAS CLOSED AS CHINA AND RUSSIA WOULD NOT SUPPORT IT AFTER THE LIBYIAN DEBACLE: OPERATION OF AL QUEDA BACKED AL NUSRA COMPLICATES THE ISSUE WHICH IS INDIRECTLY BACKED BY WEST

LADAKH BRAHIMI PANEL

POLITICAL SOLUTION FOR SYRIA: GENEVA PEACE CONFERENCE:

GENEVA ACCORD : IRAN NUCLEAR ISSUE

CRISIS EXTENTUATED BCZ OF USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS IN 2013: CROSS ALLEGATIONS AND US URGENCE TO UNILATERALLY ATTACK SYRIAà RUSSIA RESOLVES THE ISSUE THROUGH DIPLOMACY AND SYRIA AGREES TO SIGN CWC AND DESTROY ITS CW STOCK WITH VERIFICATION BY OPCW: NOW IMPLEMENTATION ISSUE:à UN RESOLUTION THAT ANY ACTION TAKEN WITH NON COMPLIANCE WOULD BE THROUGH UNSC

CURRENT: WEST NOW ABANDONING REGIME CHANGE PROJECT IN SYRIA:

1.      UNDERSTANDING THAT ASSAD IS A KEY PLAYER FOR TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY

2.      OPPOSITION HAS SIGNALLED THAT ASSAD MAY BE ALLOWED TO RUN FOR THE POLLS IN 2014

3.      ACCEPTED BY THE SAME IN DURING FRIENDS OF SYRIA MEET

4.      THE REGION SHOULD NOT FALL INTO THE FATE OF LIBYA AND AL QUEDA

FAILURES OF UN

1.      S CHIAN SEA: UNCLOS

2.      SRI LANKA: 4^TH EELAM WAR: RESPONSIBILITY OF UN FOR HR VIOLATIONS

3.      IRAN

4.      SYRIAN ISSUE: KOFI ANNAN AND LADAKH BARAMI PANEL FAILURE

5.      ARCTIC MILITARISATION

6.      LIBYA

7.      IRAQ

8.      ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

9.      CLIMATE CHANGE

10.  UN APPOINTMENTS

11.  VIENNA CONVENTION

12.  ICC ISSUES

BIODIVERSITY

POLLINATIONàBIODIVERSITYàAGRICULTURAL DIVERSITYàFOOD SECURITY

1.      CBD

2.      CARTAGENA PROTOCOL

3.      MAB

KEYSTONE SPECIES: THE ECOSYSTEM IS DEPENDENT ON IT

MASS SPECTROMETER: JJ THOMPON: 1913: EXISISTANCE OF ISOTOPES: ATOM DIFFERING IN MASS BUT SAME ATOMIC NUMBER, ELECTRON DISCOVERED

MALARIA: PARASITIC DISEASE: THROUGH RBC: VACCINE

BLOCKING THE INVASION OF PARASITE INTO RBC: DEVELOPING ANTI BODIES WHICH WILL NOT ALLOW OR BLOCK THE ENTRY

PANEL TO REVIEW RANGARAJAN FORMULA

SUGAR LEVY: 10 % LEVY, THE INDUSTRY INCREASES THE PRICE OF NON LEVY SUGAR; REMOVE THE LEVY NORMS: CENTRE TO TAP THE OPEN MARKET FOR PDS SUGAR: CHECK FOOD INFLATION AND CORRUPTION

TAXING THE SUPER RICH

GAS PRICING: IMPORT PRICE PLUS THE AVERAGE OF 3 MARKETS: HENRY HUB, LONDON (NATIONAL BALANCING POINT) , JAPAN (: PRICING OF GAS: TO ENCOURAGE THE PRODUCERS TO PRODUCE MORE

CONTROVERY OVER TO INCREASE THE PRICE FROM $4.2 TO $8.4 bbtu

RELIANCE CONTROVERSY: INABILITY TO MEET THE PRODUCTION OBLIGATION

POVERTY HIGHER AMONG EMPLOYED THAN UNEMPLOYED

1.      RELIGION BASED BIASNESS

2.      UNEMPLOYMENT SITUATION INDEX: OVER HALF OF THE WORKING POPULATION IN 2011-12 WAS UNDER $2 PER DAY

3.      LOW EARNING FOR EMPLOYED IS CONTRIBUTING TO POVERTY: OPEN UNEMPLOYMENT CONTRIBUTING TO POVERTY

4.      POVERTY HIGHER AMOUNG WOMEN WHO ARE EDUCATED

5.      UNEMPLOYMENT HIGHER WITH HIGHER EDUCATION

6.      DEMOGRAGHIC DIVIDENT IS SLIPPING AWAY

7.      REPORT BY INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

20^TH DECEMBER

SOUTH CHINA ISSUE

COUNTRIES: INDONESIA, MALAYSIA, BRINEI, CHINA, TAIWAN, PHILLIPINES, VIETNAM

ISLANDS: SPARTY ISLAND, PARCEL ISLAND, HAINAN ISLAND, CONSON ISLAND, WOODY ISLAND

ICC VERSUS ICJ

1.      ICJ: UN CHARTER, ICC: ROME STATUE

2.      ICJ: ISSUES BETWEEN COUNTRIES, ICC: PROSECUTE INDIVISUALS

3.      ICJ: WATER, TERRITORIAL, ENVN ISSUES; ICC: A. GENOCIDE, B: WAR CRIMES, C: CRIMES AGT HUMANITY

4.      ICJ: CIVIL CASES

5.      ICC: FUNDING FROM MEMBER COUNTRIES (ROME STATUE), ICJ: UN BUDGETING

ISSUES WITH ICC

·         CHARGING OF AFRICAN NATIONS ONLY: THOMAS LUBANGA, KENYAATA

·         BECOMING ICC OF AFRICA

·         NICARAGUA: CENTRAL AMERICA: US EXPLOITED THE COUNTRY: INTERNATIONAL WAR TRIBUNAL CALLED UPON US PRESIDENT BUT NEVER SHOWED UP

·         VIENNA CONVENTION: OWN INTERPRETION: RAYMOND DAVIS AND DEVYANNI: US SAID THAT DAVIS WAS UNDER VIENNA CONVENTION: EXTENDED TO CONTRACTERS AND SPIES; DEVYANNI CHARGED AGT HUMAN RIGHTS EVEN THOUGH SHE IS A DIPLOMAT

VIENNA CONVENTION ON DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS

IT AN INTERNATIONAL TREATY THAT DEFINES A FRAMEWORK FOR DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BTW INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES, IT SPECIFIES THE PRIVLEDGES OF A DIPLOMATIC MISSION THAT ENABLE DIPLOMATS TO PERFORM THEIR FUNC WITHOUT FEAR OF COERCION OR HARASSMENT BY THE HOST COUNTRY.

·         ARTICLE 22: THE PREMISES OF A DIPLOMATIC MISSION SUCH AS AN EMBASSY ARE INVIOLATE, AND MUST NOT BE ENTERED BY THE HOST COUNTRY EXCEPT BY PERMISSION BY HEAD OF THE MISSION. THE HOST COUNTRY MUST PROTECT THE MISSION FROM INTRUSION AND THEY SHOULD NEVER SEARCH THE PREMISIS NOR SEIZE ITS DOCUMENTS OR PROPERTY.

·         ARTCLE 30 EXTENDS THIS PROVISION TO THE PRIVATE RESIDENCE OF THE DIPLOMATS

·         ARTICLE 27: HOST COUNTRIES MUST PERMIT AND PROTECT FREE COMMUNICATION BTW THE DIPLOMATS OF THE MISSION AND THEIR HOME COUNTRY. A DIPLOMATIC BAG MUST NEVER BE OPENED EVEN ON SUSPION AND DIPLOMATIC COURIER MUST NEVER BE SEARCHED

·         ART 29: DIPLOMATS MUST NOT BE LIABLE TO ANY FORM OF ARREST AND ARE IMMUNE FROM CIVIL OR CRIMINAL PROSECUTION, THOUGH THE SENDING COUNTRY MAY WAIVE THIS RIGHT UA 32

·         ART 34: EXEMPT FROM MOST TAXES

·         ART 36: EXEMPT FROM MOST CUSTOM DUTIES

·         ART 37: ALL PROVISIOND EXTENDED TO FAMILY MEMBERS

·         ART 9: THE HOST COUNTRY MAY AT ANY TIME AND FOR ANY REASON A PARTICULAR MEMBER OF DIPLOMATIC STAFF TO BE PERSONA NON GRATA: THE SENDING STATE MUST RECALL THIS PERSON WITHIN A REASONABLE PERIOD OR TIME OR ELSE THE PERSON MAY LOSE THEIR IMMUNITY

·         ART 31. 1C: ALL THE DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY ARE NOT COVERED TO THE PROFESSION OUTSIDE THE DIPLOMATIC OFFICE

VIENNA CONVENTION ON COUNSELLOR RELATION

IT DEFINES THE FRANMEWORK FOR COUNSELLOR RELATIONS BTW INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES. A COUNSEL OPERATES OUT OF AN EMBASSY IN ANOTHER COUNTRY AND PERFOMS MAINLY 2 FUNS:

1.      PROTECTING IN THE HOST COUNTRY THE INT OF THEIR COUNTRYMEN

2.      FUTHERING THE COMMERCIAL AND ECONOMIC REL BTW THE 2 COUNTRIES

WHILE A COUNSEL IS NOT A DIPLOMAT, THEY WORK OUT OF THE SA,E PREMISIS AND ENJOY PRIVLEDGES PROVIDING THEM THE COUNSELLOR IMMUNITY. 176 COUNTRIES HAVE RATFIED THE TREATY.

·         ARTICLE 36: FOREIGN NATIONALS WHO ARE ARRESTED OR DETAINED BE GIVEN NOTICE WO DELAY OF THEIR RIGHTS TO HAVE THEIR COUNSELLATE OR EMBASSY NOTIFIED OF THAT ARREST. IF THE DETAINED FOREIGN NATIONS SO REQUEST THE POLICE MUST FAX THAT NOTICE TO THAT EMBASSY WHICH CAN THEN CHECK UPON THAT PERSON. THE NOTICE TO THE EMBASSY CAN BE FAX GIVING THE PERSON NAME, PLACE OF ARREST AND THE REASON OF ARREST OR DETENTION.

·         ARTICLE 5: 13 FUNCS OF A COUNSEL ARE LISTED INCL PROTECTING IN THE RECEIVING STATE IN THE INT OF SENDING STATE AS WEEL AS COMM, ECO , CULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC REL BTW 2 COUNTRIES

·         ARTICLE 23: SIMILAR TO DIPLOMATIC RELN ARTICLE 9

·         ARTICLE 31: SIMILAR TO ART 22 OF DIPLOMATS

·         ARTICLE 35: SIMILAR TO ART 27 OF DIPLOMATS

INTERNATIONAL LAW ONLY FOR THE WEAKER STATES?

CHINA: AIR DEFENCE IDENTIFICATION ZONE; US: ARREST: UNILATERALIST APPROACH

DIFFERENT INTERPRETIONS TO THE UN AND MULTILATER LAWS: LEAGUE OF NATIONS FATE?

US REFUSAL TO RATIFY UNCLOS, NON NAVIGATIONAL USE OF INTERNATIONAL RIVER WATERS, ICC: INTERNATIONAL INVASIONS: NSA SNOOPING, IRAQ, AFGANISTAN, IRAN, LIBYA: FOREIGN POLICY GUIDED BY UNILATERALISM

CHINA THE US OF ASIA?: NON NAVIGATION USE OF INTERNATIONAL WATERCOURSES: RIVERS, LAKES, AQUIFERS: SHARED RECOURSES

MAO ZEDONG: POWER GROWS OUT OF BARREL OF GUN: CLAIMS 80 CENT OF SCS: CHINA TOOK SCARBOROUGH AND THOMAS SHOAL FROM PHILIPPINES AND AGT THE INT TRIBUNAL OF LAWS OF SEA.

DEVYANNI CASE: DESPICABLE AND BARBARIC ACTION BY US: CONSULATE BASED DIPLOMAT: ENJOYS LIMITED IMMUNITY UNDER VIENNA CONVENTION ON CONSULAR RELATIONS 1963: CONVICTION EXCEPT FOR GRAVE OFFENCE ONLY VERSUS RAYMOND DAVIS

DROWING OUT THE REASON: CENTRE STATE RELATIONS

AP REORGANISATION BILL 2013, ARTICLE 3: ONLY REFERENCE TO EXPRESS THE VIEW OF STATE REQUIRED

INDIA PAKISTAN ISSUE

PAKISTANS IMPORTANCE FOR INDIA: MEDIA HYSTERIA

1.      AFGANISTAN STABILITY: CURB ON TERROR

2.      BORDER ISSUE: CROSS FIRING AND INTRUSION

3.      ENERGY SECURITY: NORTH SOUTH AND TAPI

4.      CONSOLIDATION OF INDIAN SUB CONTINENT: STRATEGIC ZONE: US AND CHINA

ISSUES

1.      INTRUSION OF TERRITORY: MORE THAN 160

2.      COLD START DOCTRINE: INTRUSION ON BOTH SIDES

3.      BE-HEADING ISSUE

4.      TRUST DEFICIT: POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL EVENTS

5.      LACK OF INFORMAL STRUCTURE AND TRACK 2 3 DIPLOMACY

6.      PARLIAMENTARY ATTACK 2001

7.      2007: SAMJAUTA EXPRESS BOMBING

8.      2008 MUMBAI ATTACKS

9.      2011 AFGANISTAN EMBASSY ATTACK

10.  ROLE OF NON STATE ACTOR: LET, HAQQANI, AL QUEDA

WHICH ORGANISATION TO TALK TO: 3 INTTS

RECENT ISSUES:

1.      ECONOMIC ISSUES: MFN ISSUE, OPENING OF TRADE CENTRES

2.      BORDER ISSUES: SIACHEN GLACIER, SIR CREEK AND JUNAGARH

3.      DIPLOMATIC ISSUES

4.      NON STATE ACTORS: ISLAMIC TERRORISM

5.      PEOPLE TO PEOPLE CONTACT: VISA REFORMS, OPENING MORE DESTINATIONS

6.      CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES

7.      REGIONAL FACTORS: AFGANISTAN, SAARC, SAFTA: ESTAB DEMOCRACY IN PAKISTAN

8.      RIVER WATER DISPUTES

TACLKING ISLAMIC TERRORISM: HOW TO DEAL: WHICH INSTT, CAN WE PUNISH THE CIVIAL GOVT, POWER CENTRE IN PAKISTAN?

GLACIERS IN J&K: KARAKORAM RANGES: SIACHEN, BALTORO, BAIFO, HISPER

CREEKS: ZONE OF NATURAL GAS, BIODIVERSITY, STRATEGIC LOCATION: NATURAL HARBOURS: SIR CREEK, KORI CREEK, GODIA CREEK: NEAR GWADAR PORT

RIVER WATER DISPUTES: INDUS WATER TREATY

INDUS: JAMMU: FLOWS IN GORGES: NO POSSIBLITY OF DAM: NO ISSUE

JHELUM: JAMMU: CONFLICT: RUN OF THE RIVER AND BARRAGE ISSUE: WULAR, KISHANGANGA (NEELAM)

CNENAB: JAMMU, HP: CONFLICT: BAGLIHAR AND DULHASI: HYDROPOWER ISSUES

RABI: JAMMU, HP

BEAS: HP, PUNJAB

SATLUJ: HP, PUNJAB

INDIA PAKISTAN

INDIA PAKISTAN RELATIONSHIP IS MAINLY GUIDED BY HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES AND EVENTS, AND ARE DEFINED BY VIOLENT PARTITION OF 1947, KASHMIR DISPUTE, INSURGENCY ISSUE, MILITARY CONFLICTS, CONSEQUENTLY EVEN THOUGH BOTH ARE THE NATURAL PARTNERS (SAME GEO POLITICAL, STRATEGIC CONDITION: ECONOMIC, GEOGRAPHIC, POLITICAL, HISTORICAL, CULTURAL CONDITIONS). THEIR RELN HAS BEEN PLAGUED BY HOSTILITY AND SUSPISION.

KEY ISSUES

1.      THE PROBLEMS OF TERRORISM AND NON STATE ACTORS NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED JOINTLY THROUGH INSTITUTIONALISED MECHANISM

2.      THERE IS NEED TO EMBRACE AN OVERREACHING STRATEGIC STABILITY REGIME AND TO SHUN AGGRESSIVE SECURITY DOCTRINES TO REDUCE THE POSIIBLITY OF AN ARMED CONFLICT

3.      WATER ISSUE SHOULD BE RESLOVED THROUGH THE MECHANISMS PROVIDED BY THE INDUS BASIN TREATY AND SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO DEGENRATE INTO SERIOUS SOURCE OF CONFLICT

4.      CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES SHLD BE CONTINUED TO ALLIVIATE THE TRUST DEFICIT BUT SHLD NOT BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR RESLN OF DISPUTE

5.      ECONOMIC COOP AND TRADE SHLD BE FACILITATED TO DEVEKLOP MUTALITY OF INT

6.      INDIA AND PAK NEED TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHERS LEGITIMATE INT IN AFGANISTAN AND PURSUE THEM WO COMING INTO CONFLICT WITH EACH OTHER.

THE 2 COUNTRIES HAVE MENTAINED A PACHY CEASE LINE ON LoC SINCE 2003, IN THE LAST FEW YEARS THERE WERE MORE THAN 600 CEASE FIRE VIOLATIONS. IN 2013 ALONE, THERE WERE MORE THAN 160 BREACHS WITH BE-HEADING EVENTS.

IN REACTION FOR THE FIRST TIME, PM, DURING UN GA: NY SUMMIT: CRITICISED THE PAK POLICY AND MENTIONED PAK AS EPICETER OF TERRORISM AND THE MAIN REASON BEHIND GROWING TENSION BTW THE COUNTRIES.

THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS ATTEMPTS TO IMPROVE THE RELNS LIKE LAHORE AND AGRA SUMMIT BUT SINCE 1980s RELATION SOURED AFTER SIACHEN, KASHMIR INSURGENCY IN 1989, NUCLEAR TESTS 1998, 199: KARGIL WAR, 2001 PARLIAMENTARY ATTCK, 2007 SAMJAUTA EXPRESS BOMBING, 2008: MUMBAI ATTACK, 2013 ISSUES ON BORDER. INSPITE OF ALL THESE INCIDENTS INDIA AND PAK CONDUCTED VARIOUS CBDs EG: 2003 CEASE FIRE AGREEMENT, DELHI LAHORE BUS SERVICE, VISA REFORMS, NUCLEAR ESTAB EXCHG DOCUMENTS.

SHIMLA AGREEMENT

WAS SIGNED IN 1972 AFTER THE WAR OF 1971. THE AREEGENT WAS THE RESULT OF THE RESOLVE OF BOTH COUNTRIES TO PUT AN END TO THE CONFLICT AND CONFRONTATION WHICH OTHERWISE MARRED THEIR RELNS. IT CONCIEVED THE STEPS TO BE TAKEN FOR FUTHER NORMALISATION OF MUTUAL RELNS AND IT ALSO LAID DOWN THE PRINICIPLES THAT SHLD GOVERN THEIR FUTURE RALNS. IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THESE OBJECTIVES, BOTH FOLLOWS:

1.      TO RESOLVE TO SETTLE THEIR DIFF BY PEACEFUL MEANS THROUGH BILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS OR BY ANY OTHER PEACEFUL MEANS MUTUALLY AGREED, PENDING THE FINAL SETTLEMENT OF ANY OF THE PROBLEMS BTW THE 2 NATIONS, NEITHER SIDE SHALL UNILATERALLY ALTER THE SITUATIONAND BOTH SHALL PREVENT THE ORG ASSISTANCE OR ENCOURAGEMENT OF ANY ACTS DETRIMENTAL TO MAINTAINANCE OF PEACE AND HARMONIOUS RELATIONS

2.      BOTH SHLD BE GUIDED BY CHARTER OF UN

3.      THE PRE REQUSITE FOR RECONSILATION, GOOD NEIGHBOURLINESS, AND DURABLE PEACE IS COMMITMENT BY BOTH NATIONS TO PEACEFUL CO EXISTANCE BY RESPECTING EACH OTHERS TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY AND SOVEREIGNITY AND NON INTERFERENCE IN EACH OTHERS DOMESTIC ISSUES

4.      THEY SHALL ALWAYS RESPECT POLITICAL INDEPENCE, NATIONAL UNITY AND SOVEREIGN EQUALITY

5.      THEY SHLD RESTICTY THDE USE FORCES AGT POLITICAL INDEPENCE OR TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY

6.      BOTH WILL TAKE STEPS TO PREVENT HOSTILE PROPOGANDA DIRECTED AGT EACH OTHER AND WILL ENCOURAGE THE DISSEMINATION OF SUCH INFO TO PROMOTE FRIENDLY RELN

IN ORDER TO ACIVE THE ABOVE OBJECTIVES, BOTH SHOULD TAKE SOME STEPS:

A.    APPROPRIATE STEPS FOR TRAVEL FACILITIES

B.     STEPS TO RESUME COMMUNCATIONS, POSTAL, SEA, LAND AND AIR LINKS INCL OVER FLIGHTS

C.     ECH IN FIELD OF SCI AND CULTURE

D.    TRADE AND COOP IN ECO AND OTHER AGREED FIELDS WILL BE RESUMED

E.     BI LATERAL AND MINISTERAL LEVEL DIALOGUES TIME TO TIME TO AVOID TRUST DEFICIT

IN ORDER TO INITIATE THE PROCESS THE DURABLE PEACE BOTH SHLD AGREE

7.      INDO PAK FORCES TO BE WITHDRWAN TO THEIR SIDES

8.      IN J N K, THE LOC RESULTING FROM CEASEFIRE FROM AGREEMENT OF 1971 SHALL BE RESPECTED BY BOTH TO RECOG POSN OF EITHER SIDE

9.      NEITHER SIDE SHALL SEEK TO ALTER IT UNILATERALLY

10.  BOTH SIDES FURTHER UNDERTAKE TO REFRAIN FROM THREAT OR USE OF FORCE IN VIOLATION OF THIS LINE

SHIMLA AGREEMENT IS CRITICISED BCZ OF

A.    NOT DISCUSSED THE QUESTION OF REPATRIATION OF POW AND CIVILIAN INTERNNEES

B.     NOT DISCUSSED ABT PERMANENT SOLN OF J & K

C.     BREACH OF AGREEMENT: CONSEQUENCES AND STEPS TO BE TAKEN