1. The Commission on “Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation” is appointed under Section 2 of Commission of Inquiry Act to probe the incidents leading to the war between the LTTE and the security forces.
The Commission will inquire and report on facts and circumstances which led to the failure of the cease-fire agreement operationalised in February, 2002 and the sequence of events that followed thereafter up to the May, 2009 and whether any person, group or institution directly or indirectly bear responsibility in this regard.
It has been asked to report on the institutional, administrative and legislative measures which need to be taken in order to prevent any recurrence of such concerns in the future, and to promote further national unity and reconciliation among all communities in the island nation.
2. In 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus predicted that geometric population growth would inevitably outstrip food production, leaving society destitute and hungry.
-> Moreover, food production can be increased dramatically, as India proved in its world-
changing Green Revolution of the mid-1960s,
3. A cloudburst is high intensity rainfall in a short period of time, sometimes accompanied by hail and thunder, and can cause floods. A cloudburst over Mumbai in July 2005 saw the skies dumping 950 mm of water in eight to 10 hours
It never really rains in Ladakh, which is geographically categorised as a “cold desert.” The destruction in the floods was all the more because people in Ladakh, confident of dry conditions, have traditionally used mud in much of their architecture. The Leh disaster has come at the same time as Pakistan experiences its worst floods in a century. Across South Asia, weather patterns are changing in unpredictable ways, and require to be studied so that we are better equipped to deal with them.
4. National Food Security Act: As per the proposed Act, the most vulnerable sections of society will have a legally enforceable right to food that guarantees sufficient food for them. Thus, every family living below the poverty line in rural and urban areas will be entitled, by law, to 25 kg of rice or wheat per month at Rs 3 per kg.
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