Building Alternatives; Middle Path; Education Disrupted
Building Alternatives; Middle Path; Education Disrupted
Opinion Watch
Building Alternatives
Richly hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi for pulling through a diplomatic thriller, The Asian Age in its Editorial has spotlighted the India-UAE-Saudi Arabia-Israel-Italy-France sea-cum-rail economic corridor, arguing that it would link a $23.3 trillion economies of three regions. The New Delhi-based daily stressed that the emerging options to ship hydrogen, transmit electricity, lay cable and others may bring a windfall of gains for the regions. It noted that the Arab world used the same route in the past to source sugar and spices from India and further trade with Europe.
The economic corridor has often been spoken of for past few decades and the trans-Asian rail corridor of the 1990s stays as a template. Top leadership of the stakeholders has endorsed the project, which will need execution at speed.
Middle Path
Consensus view among the dailies in India is that India achieved more than the expectations during the G20 Leaders’ Summit, and The Hindu in its Editorial gave depth to the concurrence saying that even the United Nations has not been able to come out with a consensus view for a long time, while the Bali Declaration of last year had evaporated soon. The Chennai-based daily particularly spotlighted the Indian efforts to popularize a diplomatic event by holding over 200 meetings across the country. It wondered if the scale of the Indian presidency will be replicated.
Modi’s politics enshrines foreign affairs at the centre stage. This pays rich electoral dividends. Similar political template may not exist in other countries.
Education Disrupted
The Tribune in its Editorial has spotlighted the consequence of the heavy spells of monsoon fury in Himachal Pradesh on education. The Chandigarh-based daily underlined that “the children’s studies are now being impacted by the damage to school buildings across the areas hit by floods and landslides in Mandi, Kullu and Shimla”. It also stated that “Mandi seems to have suffered the most as 385 schools in the district have been fully or partially damaged”.
Rains ravaged the hills and it’s incumbent upon the government at the Centre and the state to get all hands on the deck to bring restoration while working for short term measures also to bring immediate relief to all the affected people.
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