The recent tension with Nepal, misunderstanding with Bhutan and border clash with China show that India can no longer create policy of long-term water security in isolation.
The draft National River Ganga (Rejuvenation, Protection and Management) Bill also proposes to set up a PM-headed council and a rejuvenation authority.
Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities.
In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.
The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.
An interesting read. Regarding the author’s point: “The concern should not only be that water will cause war — theory and practice tell us otherwise…”, it is worth noting that the very word ‘river’ comes from the same Latin root as ‘rival’ – underlining the truth that water has in fact always been a cause for war! For instance, Israel’s occupation of the Golan Heights was primarily driven by the need – justifiable or otherwise – to secure the watershed of the river Jordan, Israel’s lifeline. Likewise China’s interest in dominating the Ladakh-Nepal areas, whence issue three of the greatest rivers of South Asia.
No amount of biltateral agreements will hold its sanctity when you have treacherous and duplicitous neighbours like China and Pakistan..it is an exercise in futility and wishful thinking to even hope so..meanwhile I’m sure the powers that be in the present government are alive to the situation
An interesting read. Regarding the author’s point: “The concern should not only be that water will cause war — theory and practice tell us otherwise…”, it is worth noting that the very word ‘river’ comes from the same Latin root as ‘rival’ – underlining the truth that water has in fact always been a cause for war! For instance, Israel’s occupation of the Golan Heights was primarily driven by the need – justifiable or otherwise – to secure the watershed of the river Jordan, Israel’s lifeline. Likewise China’s interest in dominating the Ladakh-Nepal areas, whence issue three of the greatest rivers of South Asia.
No amount of biltateral agreements will hold its sanctity when you have treacherous and duplicitous neighbours like China and Pakistan..it is an exercise in futility and wishful thinking to even hope so..meanwhile I’m sure the powers that be in the present government are alive to the situation