APRIL 16 2015

GS 2 5. INTERNATIONAL
China thinks big ahead of Modis visit
PROPOSALS

a partnership in reclusive areas such as nuclear technology and aviation

economic cooperation in terms of hardware and software
Belt and Road policy doctrine===> reviving the land and maritime dimensions
of the ancient Silk Road.
Partnership in high speed railway, aerospace industry, nuclear power stations and
electricity facilities
development of a New Delhi-Chennai high speed link

Border issue

long term stability along the disputed Sino-Indian border

Pact on uranium (indo Canada relations)

Canada agreed to supply 3000 tonnes of uranium to power indian reactors
The agreement, which came two years after protracted negotiations following the 2013
civil nuclear deal between India and Canada
Canada is the third country to supply uranium to India after Russia and Kazakhstan. The
supplies will be under the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards.

GS 2 3. GOVERNANCE
Blow for Net neutrality
Net neutrality ---> the principle that all Internet traffic has to be treated equally
- flipkart approached airtel with airtel zero policy i.e those who uses airtel simcard with net
enabled phone can freely access flipkart app
- netizens backlashed at plan ----> flipkart dropped the plan
- free plans, also called zero-rating plans wherein the subscriber gets access to select sites,
are deemed to be against Net neutrality and banned in countries such as Chile

GS 3 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
A tale of two countries
- Chinas compounded annual growth rate was over 10 per cent between 1990 and 2013,
China is deliberately cooling off, after more than two decades of high growth.
- the best that India achieved was about 9 per cent, between 2003 and 2009.
Chinas double-digit growth helped it emerge as the worlds manufacturing hub and
enabled it
- to bring about major reduction in poverty levels
- ensuring a far higher level of literacy
- better health and living standards than Indias.
India needs to grow at 7 to 8 per cent for at least a decade to create jobs for the 12
million people entering the market each year and generate resources to improve
physical and social infrastructure.

India
quarter of Indias households have no
electricity
Literacy rate 74%
Infant mortality rate 43 per 1000
Per capita income - $ 1808

China
China has full coverage
Literacy rate 95%
14 per 1000
Per capita income -3500$

India will not be able to sustain its investment thrust and reach Chinas levels unless its
present savings rate, at about 30 per cent of GDP, against Chinas 51 per cent,
improves.
What india must do to achieve china like growth?

must boost household savings by improving employment and financial inclusion

keep inflation in check
policy environment that encourages Make in India can help.

GS 2 -4 SOCIAL JUSTICE
Return to a lost paradise? (Kashmiri pandits)
ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) imparted a religious colour to kashmiri problem
targeted by the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), even though the organisation
had sought to build on the original secular foundations of the National Conference
By 2008, their population, as assessed by the Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti (KPSS),
was reduced to 651 families from 75,343 families on January 1, 1990. Nearly 70,000
families fled in the turmoil of 1990-92
Talk of a return
since an elected government took office in the State in 1996 separatist leaders, Mirwaiz
Omar Farooq and Shabbir Shah, have repeatedly asked the Kashmiri migrants to return.
But every time the issue would be raised at the national level, Pandits in the Valley
would be attacked brutally and the issue would be put on the back burner

pandits formed a non governmental organization i.e Hindu Welfare Society, which
attempted to document the locations and requirements of their brethren
This body managed to stop another exodus after 23 Pandits were killed in Nadimarg
village in early 2003

Data and reality

Paundits problems (presently only 3000 pundits are there in kashmir)
Apathy of officials
no consolidated record of land and property of this group
no record of the properties attached to temples
Centre had announced a package of Rs.1,618.40 crore in 2008 for the return and
rehabilitation of migrant Kashmiri families, till now, one family has returned to the valley
availing the benefit of Rs.7.5 lakh for construction of house
Remedies

- In the long term, a meaningful plan for the State must include foreign direct investment and
development in the form of the much-talked about smart cities, which can be the new
townships. This will encourage young Kashmiris, many of whom have achieved excellence in
their chosen fields, to invest and think of a new life in Kashmir, providing livelihoods and living
space to others.