DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS ANALYSIS

01 March 2022

No.	Topic Name	Prelims/Mains
1.	DETAILS OF THE MULTI AGENCY CENTRE AGAINST TERRORISM	Prelims & Mains
2.	ABOUT THE WESTERN DISTURBANCES	Prelims & Mains
3.	ABOUT THE GALWAN VALLEY	Prelims & Mains
4.	DETAILS OF THE KALADEO NATIONAL PARK	Prelims Specific Topic

 

1 – DETAILS OF THE MULTI AGENCY CENTRE AGAINST TERRORISM: 

GS III

Topic – Internal Security related issues 

• About the Multi Agency Centre Against Terrorism:
• The platform is used by 28 organizations, including the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), the military forces, and state police, and it allows different security agencies to share real-time information feeds.
• For more than a decade, there have been plans to connect the system to the district level.
• According to a senior government official, the mechanism exists to communicate information among several agencies, but it is not being used efficiently.
• “States are frequently hesitant to share data on the platform.
• There are various gaps in releasing essential information at the proper time which need to be fulfilled in order to effectively fight terrorism in India.
• Source – The Hindu

2 – ABOUT THE WESTERN DISTURBANCES:

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Topic – Geography

• What is Western Disturbance:
• It is an extra tropical storm that originates in the Mediterranean region and brings heavy winter rains to the Indian subcontinent’s northwestern regions.
• The westerlies drive a non-monsoonal precipitation pattern.
• Extratropical storms are a global phenomena that carry moisture in the high atmosphere, as opposed to their tropical counterparts, which carry moisture in the lower atmosphere.
• When a storm system hits the Himalayas, moisture is sometimes released as rain on the Indian subcontinent.
• How Western Disturbances are caused:
• Western Disturbance is caused by extratropical cyclones that form in the Mediterranean Sea.
• A high-pressure area forms over Ukraine and the surrounding region, allowing frigid air from the Polar Regions to enter an area of somewhat warmer air with significant moisture.
• This encourages the formation of an eastward-moving extratropical depression by creating favourable circumstances for cyclogenesis in the upper atmosphere.
• They make their way across the Middle East, passing via Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan on their way to the Indian subcontinent.
• Impact:
• Plays a key role in bringing moderate to heavy rain to low-lying portions of the Indian Subcontinent, as well as heavy snow to mountainous areas.
• Cloudy skies, warmer night-time temperatures, and unexpected rain are frequently linked with this disturbance.
• This precipitation is critical in agriculture, particularly for Rabi crops.
• Wheat is one of the most significant crops that contributes to India’s food security.
• Crop damage, landslides, floods, and avalanches can all be caused by excessive precipitation caused by this disturbance.
• It brings cold waves and dense fog to the Indo-Gangetic plains on occasion.
• Until another western disturbance disrupts the situation, these circumstances will remain stable.
• A transient advancement of monsoon current develops across the region when western disturbances sweep across northwest India before to the onset of monsoon.

• Source – The Hindu

3 – ABOUT THE GALWAN VALLEY:

Prelims Specific Topic

• Context:
• It’s been a year since the armed forces of China and India clashed in Galwan.
• Background:
• India and China share a 3,440-kilometer-long (2,100-mile-long) border with overlapping territory claims.
• At three sites along the Line of Actual Control in 2020, Indian and Chinese soldiers were embroiled in a tense standoff – the Galwan River Valley, the Hot Springs area, and the Pangong Lake.
• Even while India and China held military-level negotiations and engaged in controlled engagement, a major clash involving army personnel from both sides occurred in the Galwan Valley in Eastern Ladakh.
• The strategic significance of the Galwan River Valley (GRV) is as follows:
• The Galwan River is the highest ridgeline, allowing the Chinese to control the Shyok route, which runs along to the river.
• It is located near Aksai Chin, a disputed area claimed by India but controlled by China, on the western side of the LAC.
• Why have tensions in this area suddenly risen:
• India is attempting to build a feeder road between Darbuk-Shyok Village with Daulat Beg Odi (DS-DBO road).
• This road follows the Shyok River and is the most important communication link between LAC and the rest of the world.
• As a result, the Chinese were desperate to retain this territory, fearing that the Indian side may use the river valley to threaten their position on the Aksai Chin plateau.
• Source – The Hindu

4 – DETAILS OF THE KALADEO NATIONAL PARK:

Prelims Specific Topic

• About:
• It is located in the Bharatpur district of Rajasthan, in the eastern section of the state.
• The park covers about 30 square kilometers and includes numerous artificial and seasonal ponds.
• Keoladeo is home to a variety of migratory birds who use it as a breeding and wintering habitat.
• It is a Ramsar site as well as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• The Siberian crane is a rare bird that was last seen in this area before the turn of the century.
• It is home to roughly 365 different bird species, including raptors and waterfowl.
• The terrain is home to jackals, sambars, nilgais, wild cats, hyenas, wild boar, porcupine, and mongoose.
• About the Ramsar Convention:
• The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands is an intergovernmental convention on wetlands.
• It establishes a framework for wetlands conservation and judicious utilization of their resources.
• In 1971, the Convention was signed in the Iranian city of Ramsar, and it went into effect in 1975.
• Since then, about 90% of UN member states from all geographic regions of the world have agreed to become “Contracting Parties.”
• All lakes and rivers, underground aquifers, swamps and marshes, wet grasslands, Peatlands, oases, estuaries, deltas and tidal flats, mangroves and other coastal areas, coral reefs, and all human-made sites such as fish ponds, rice paddies, reservoirs, and salt pans are included in the Convention’s definition of wetlands.

• Source – The Hindu