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18th December 2023
QUIZ - 18th December 2023
5 Questions
7 Minutes
Editorials
The Black Sea conflict between Ukraine and Russia illuminates pivotal lessons in naval strategy, emphasizing non-linearity, technological shifts, and cooperation.
Geopolitical Realities in Naval Warfare
- Geography and Circumstance: Strategic geography, technological disparities, and circumstantial factors significantly influence naval conflicts, shaping outcomes in unpredictable ways.
- Combat Drones and Missile Strategies: The rise of combat drones, like the Bayraktar TB2, alters naval warfare dynamics, emphasizing the need for strategic adaptation.
- Creative Technology Use: Ship design and crew competence emerge as crucial factors, highlighting the importance of technological adaptation and crew training.
Implications for Naval Leadership
- The Black Sea conflict underscores the need for naval leaders to embrace non-linear strategies and adapt to evolving geopolitical realities.
- Non-Linear Thinking:Naval success hinges on a side's ability to adopt non-linear campaigns, showcasing strategic flexibility and creative thinking.
- In existential crises, lesser powers tend to think beyond conventional methods, challenging stronger opponents with innovative approaches.
Technological Innovation and Cooperation
- Embracing advancements: like combat drones and shore-based missiles becomes imperative for naval leaders navigating modern geopolitical challenges.
- Training and Competence in Naval Forces: Ship design and crew competence are paramount; naval leaders must prioritize training to handle contemporary threats effectively.
- Lessons from the Black Sea conflict: emphasize the importance of anticipating and mitigating multifaceted challenges at sea.
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Next Delimitation Commission must ensure fair representation for minorities, tackling both quantity and quality of vote dilution effectively.
Constitutional Safeguards
- Quantitative and Qualitative dilution: Articles 81, 170, and 327 ensure fair delimitation, preventing both quantitative and qualitative dilution of vote value.
- Maintain Electoral process: Independent commissions, led by retired judges, maintain the quality of the electoral process.
- Data suggestions: National Commission to Review the Working of the Constitution and the Sachar Committee Report: in a majority of the seats reserved for SCs by the Delimitation Commission (1972-76), the population of Muslims was more than 50% and also higher than the SC population.
Historical Delimitation Orders
- Background: Four delimitation commissions shaped electoral boundaries in 1952, 1962, 1972, and 2002, impacting representation and population ratios.
- Legislative amendments freeze population figures, affecting delimitation decisions.
- Minority Status: At present, the share of Muslims MPs in Parliament is only around 4.42%, whereas the Muslim population is 14.2%.
Vote Value Disparities:
- Dilution of vote value: The population of Rajasthan, Haryana, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Gujarat has increased by more than 125% between 1971 and 2011, whereas the population of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa, and Odisha has increased by less than 100% due to stricter population control measures.
- Population growth disparities across states create significant vote value variations, leading to both quantitative and qualitative dilution.
- Issues:Minorities face qualitative dilution through practices like cracking, stacking, and packing, impacting their parliamentary representation.
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The challenges in implementing the Forest Rights Act (FRA) focus on historical injustices, bureaucratic resistance, and unrealized potential.
FRA Objectives
- Idea to give Rights: Colonial forest policies disrupted local traditions, leading to injustices.
- Decentralization: FRA addresses historical wrongs, recognizing individual and community forest rights, and aiming for decentralized forest governance.
Distortions in FRA Implementation
- Overlooked Tribal Rights: Politicians focus on individual rights, overlooking community forest rights.
- Forest bureaucracy: It resists recognition of community rights, hindering the democratization of forest governance.
- Non-recognition of community Rights: It benefits conservationists and development lobbies, making Protected Area communities vulnerable to displacement and exploitation.
Challenges in FRA Realization
- Ground realities: FRA aims at sustainable livelihoods, but implementation face political opportunism and bureaucratic hurdles.
- Forest governance: Without understanding FRA's intent, there's a risk of distorted rights recognition and undemocratic forest governance.
Judicial hurdles: Even the open-and-shut case of ‘forest villages’ has not been addressed in most States.
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