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THE HINDU editorial Analysis in Hindi today EDITORIAL The Hindu Editorial Decode in Hindi DATE: 30 AUGUST 2018 THURSDAY UPSC IAS EXAMS YOUTUBE CHANNEL BY KARDAM RAVAL GENERAL STUDIES EXPERT WE BELIEVE IN DELIVERING EXCELLENCE
Today s Roadmap AAJ KA MANTRA QUESTION ANSWER FUN FACT (AAJ KA GYAN) ANALYSIS SHOCK ARRESTS: ON ACTIVISTS' ARREST POWER PLAY: ON TROUBLES OF THE POWER SECTOR VOCABULARY
AAJ KA MANTRA
QUESTION ANSWER India s first-ever test flight powered by biojet fuel was successfully conducted by which airline? [A] Air India [B] SpiceJet [C] Vistara [D] JetLite CORRECT ANSWER BY DEEPANKAR SHARMA KAJAL KUMARI SYED DABEER SHAZIA KHAN SUMIT JADHAV ANU BHATNAGAR ROHIT MAURYA AAJ KA PRASN JO DIYALEGA AAPKO MAUKA YAHA AAPKA NAAM DARJ KARWANEKA AUR AAPKO MILLEGA HUMARE COURSE KE LIYE COUPON CODE Which of the following cities is the venue of the 4th Asian electoral stakeholders forum (AESF-IV)? [A] Bangkok [B] Colombo [C] New Delhi [D] Bali
FUN FACT AAJ KA GYAN PART 1 Satya S Tripathi, the veteran Indian development economist and UN official, has been appointed Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the New York Office of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The appointment was made by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Mr. Tripathi, who will succeed Elliott Harris of Trinidad and Tobago, has worked with the UN since 1998 in Europe, Asia and Africa on sustainable development, human rights, democratic governance and legal affairs. UN Environment is the leading agency at the world body focussed on environment. It works with governments, the private sector, the civil society and with other UN entities and international organisations across the world. PART 2 Dr. Ravinder Kumar Singhal (53), the Maharashtra cadre IPS officer & presently Nashik Police Commissioner, has successfully completed the immensely difficult Ironman triathlon in 15 hours and 13 minutes as against the stipulated time of 17 hours in France on August 26, 2018. The Ironman is an international triathlon consisting of three consecutive events- 3.8 km of swimming, 180 km cycling and 42.2 km of running (a full marathon). It is considered one of the toughest one-day sporting events in the world. The competitors have to complete the events in sequence within 17 hours to earn the title of Ironman. Earlier, model-turned-actor Milind Soman had successfully completed the race in 2015. Beside this, Anju Khosla (52) became the oldest Indian woman to complete an Ironman Triathlon in Austria on July 2018, while Major General Vikram Dogra became the first serving Indian Army officer and the only General across the world to have successfully completed a gruelling Ironman competition held in Klagenfurt, Austria in July 2018.
Shock arrests: on activists' arrest If the arrest of five prominent activists by the Pune police in a coordinated operation across four States has resulted in such indignation, it is because of the widespread suspicion that this is part of an orchestrated crackdown on political dissent. The intervention of high courts and later the Supreme Court has given rise to the hope that they will not be put away without sufficient basis, and that the case for proceeding against them will be properly scrutinised. The focus will now be on the next hearing of the Supreme Court, but the dramatic development which has come months after some Left-leaning activists were arrested in a case relating to the Bhima-Koregaon violence has raised a fundamental question. Namely, whether the arrests were the culmination of a legitimate probe into a Maoist plot, as the police claim, or whether this is yet another clumsy failure to distinguish between those who indulge in or actively support violent activity, and those who attempt to understand or empathise with the social conditions that breed extremism and insurgency.
CONTINUE It is nobody s case that activists or intellectuals are above the law, but the Maharashtra police carry the enormous burden of proof, having accused the activists of doing much more than inciting the violence that broke out in Bhima-Koregaon, near Pune, this year. What began as a controversy over allegedly provocative speeches made at a Dalit conference relating to the 200th anniversary of an iconic battle site has inexplicably morphed into a larger conspiracy involving the CPI (Maoist). Human rights activists, particularly those working in conflict-prone areas, have been harassed and even arrested on the suspicion of being in league with extremists. While action against them routinely makes the headlines, the bald truth is that successful prosecutions are rare. Charges such as sedition, waging war against the government and promoting disaffection against the state rarely end in conviction.
CONCLUSION One reason for the failure is that prosecuting agencies typically believe in guilt by association; they confuse empathy with incitement and compassion with collaboration. Also, cases are often filed with utter disregard for the principle that charges such as unlawful activities and terrorist acts should not be invoked in the absence of actual acts of violence or incitement to violence; mere verbal expression of support cannot and should not be the basis for arrest. The Pune police claim that the five who have now been arrested were raising funds for the Maoists, and indulging in unlawful activities; that they had a nexus with other unlawful groups and, ominously, were plotting to target high political functionaries. Given the sweeping allegations of unlawful activity and the enormity of implicating them in unverified assassination plots, the burden of proof on the police is extremely high. Unless proven, it will only confirm suspicions that the law has been bent with the sole purpose of targeting dissent.
Power play: on troubles of the power sector The Allahabad High Court on Monday dismissed a plea from private power producers seeking relief from an RBI diktat to banks to take cognisance of a stressed loan if repayments were missed even by a day. The RBI decision, of February 12, requires banks to complete insolvency resolution proceedings within 180 days of defaults. Monday also marked the deadline for several cases in which loans were declared bad due to this regulation. Across the banking system, about 70 firms with loans of around 3.8 lakh crore outstanding were expected to face insolvency proceedings. Thirty-four of the troubled accounts are from the power sector and constitute nearly 54% (or 2.02 lakh crore) of banks exposure in these cases, according to the credit rating agency ICRA. A Power Ministry report suggests these power producers have planned generation capacities of 39 gigawatts, and are in trouble.
CONTINUE This is due to a variety of factors: fuel shortages due to cancellation of coal block allotments or lack of supply linkages; absence of power purchase agreements signed by State discoms; and cost overruns due to delayed clearances. The promoters argued in court that most of the hurdles faced by the power sector were due to external factors and so they should be spared the insolvency stick. Several bankers and even the government have expressed reservations about the RBI directive. With regard to the power sector, in particular, the worry among bankers is that a credible resolution plan may be difficult to construct unless key structural issues such as fuel supply and State discoms financial woes are fixed. To be fair, the power sector has been facing some of these issues since UPA-II. The UPA government had set up a project management group in the Cabinet Secretariat to steer stalled big-ticket investment projects out of regulatory landmines.
CONCLUSION The NDA government did its bit too, including an overhaul of the process for coal block allotments and the UDAY scheme to rev up State discoms finances. But the utilisation rate of power plant capacities has been stagnant at around 60%, indicating that more needs to be done by policymakers. Nonetheless, it is heartening that the High Court refused to entertain any obfuscation of the RBI s regulatory powers or of the sanctity of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code to deal with stressed assets. This should trigger a consolidation in the sector, possibly with deep haircuts for banks. Granting any relief would have led to pleas for exemption from other sectors too. The government should display greater urgency in tackling systemic issues in different sectors, but there should be no deviation from the IBC path it has embarked on to fix the banking stress, that is hurting the entire economy.
VOCABULARY 1. BALK (VERB): Prevent : (र क वट ड ऱन ) 2. AVOW (VERB): Acknowledge: (ख ऱकर कहन ) 3. AUGUST (ADJECTIVE): Acclaimed: (प रत प ) 4. ALACRITY (NOUN): Promptness: (तत परत ) 5. ADO (NOUN): Fuss: (हऱचऱ) 6. ARTICULATE (VERB): Hinge: (स फ स फ ब ऱन ) 7. ARID (ADJECTIVE): Parched: (श ष क) 8. AVID (ADJECTIVE): Ardent: (उत स क) 9. ARCANE (ADJECTIVE): Hidden: (रहस य क ) 10. ADDLE (VERB): Confuse: (घबड य ह आ)
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