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| (Article) India-Japan: Starting Active Partnership - Civil Services Mentor Magazine January 2012 Posted: 20 Jan 2012 01:17 AM PST 
India-Japan: Starting Active Partnership The determined effort by India and Japan to inject life into their bilateral relationship is showing positive results. The meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Japanese premier Yoshihiko Noda, the sixth of the annual India-Japan summits, is a marker of the steady progress. It yielded the first official confirmation since Japan's devastating tsunami-earthquake-Fukushima meltdown that the country has not shut the door on a civilian nuclear deal with India. While Mr. Noda stressed the importance of learning the right lessons from Japan's nuclear accident, it appears that negotiations on a deal to assist India develop peaceful nuclear energy will continue.
His pledge of $4.5 billion over the next five years for the development of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, a commitment of financial assistance for two more infrastructure projects — Phase 3 of the Delhi Metro and a biodiversity conservation project in West Bengal — and his interest in sharing high-speed railway technology with India are significant. Japan's enhancement of its currency swap arrangement from $3 billion to $15 billion will help India better manage the rupee's slump against the dollar. This should also boost financial cooperation and economic and trade ties, which are currently far below potential. The Indian side wants more Japanese investment. For its part, Japan, which has just lifted a longstanding ban on the export of weapons, will be looking to sell defence hardware to New Delhi.
Prime Minister Noda reiterated his gratitude for the substantial support extended from India in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Prime Minister Singh expressed his hope that Japan will make a full recovery as early as possible.The two Prime Ministers concurred that, as next year marks the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and India, they would make best use of the opportunity to strengthen cultural and people-to-people exchanges in order to deepen mutual understanding at their citizens' level.
Prime Minister Noda's visit capped a year of intense bilateral activity. The Foreign Ministers held a strategic dialogue in October, followed by talks between the defence ministers. In February, the two sides signed the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement covering trade in goods as well as services; it came into effect in August. Earlier this month, India, Japan, and the United States held their first trilateral strategic dialogue. It is creditable that despite the political instability in Japan, and the scandal-induced paralysis in India, both countries managed to fit in these high-level exchanges. It is crucial that growing India-Japan ties are viewed independently of each country's relations with China. New Delhi and Beijing are engaged in improving relations at various levels, including trade, eventually aiming to amicably resolve the boundary question. China is Japan's biggest trading partner; the two have a bilateral trade of $340 billion that neither can afford to endanger. The fears expressed in a section of China's news media that Mr. Noda's visit is part of a "containment strategy" aimed at Beijing are needless. The Chinese government has done well to play them down. read more © 2011 www.upscportal.com INTEGRATED Guidance Programme for IAS 2012(CSAT)  :: CSAT Sample Papers :: Current Affairs | CSAT Syllabus | UPSC MAINS PAPERS Get Your Dream Job. SUBMIT YOUR RESUME Online. |
| (IGP) IAS Pre: GS - Environment - Biodiversity - National Action Plan on Climate Change Posted: 20 Jan 2012 12:46 AM PST 
Environment
National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) 1. Overview India is faced with the challenge of sustaining its rapid economic growth while dealing with the glob¬al threat of climate change. This threat emanates from accumulated greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, anthropogenically generated through long-term and intensive industrial growth and high consumption lifestyles in developed countries. While engaged with the international community to collec¬tively and cooperatively deal with this threat, India needs a national strategy to firstly, adapt to climate change and secondly, to further enhance the ecolog¬ical sustainability of India's development path. Climate change may alter the distribution and quality of India's natural resources and adverse¬ly affect the livelihood of its people. With an econo¬my closely tied to its natural resource base and cli¬mate-sensitive sectors such as agriculture, water and forestry, India may face a major threat because of the projected changes in climate.
India's development path is based on its unique resource endowments, the overriding priori¬ty of economic and social development and poverty eradication, and its adherence to its civilizational legacy that places a high value on the environment and the maintenance of ecological balance. In charting out a developmental pathway which is ecologically sustainable, India has a wider spectrum of choices precisely because it is at an earlystage of development. Our vision is to create a pros¬perous, but not wasteful society, an economy that is self-sustaining in terms of its ability to unleash the creative energies of our people and is mindful of our responsibilities to both present and future genera¬tions.
Recognizing that climate change is a global challenge, India will engage actively in multilateral negotiations in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, in a positive, constructive and for¬ward-looking manner. Our objective will be to establish an effective, cooperative and equitable global approach based on the principle of common but differentiated responsibilites and respective capabilities, enshrined in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Such an approach must be based on a global vision inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's wise dic¬tum—The earth has enough resources to meet peo¬ple's needs, but will never have enough to satisfy people's greed. Thus we must not only promote sus¬tainable production processes, but equally, sustain¬able lifestyles across the globe. affirm their responsibility for accumulated green¬house gas emissions and fulfill their commitments under the UNFCCC, to transfer new and additional financial resources and climate friendly technologies to support both adaptation and mitigation in devel¬oping countries. read more © 2011 www.upscportal.comINTEGRATED Guidance Programme for IAS 2012(CSAT):: CSAT Sample Papers :: Current Affairs | CSAT Syllabus | UPSC MAINS PAPERS Get Your Dream Job. SUBMIT YOUR RESUME Online. |
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