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Pallaniappan Chidambaram (born 16 September 1945)[1]is an Indian politician and former attorney who currently serves as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha[2]and formerly served as the Union Minister of Finance of India.He was the Finance Minister starting in May 2004 through 2014, except for a three-and-a-half year stint – beginning November 2008 – as Home Minister. Chidambaram returned as Finance Minister in July 2012, succeeding Pranab Mukherjee, who demitted office to become the President of India.Contents1Early life and education2Political career3Family and personal life4Controversies4.1INX Media, Aircel-Maxis case5Books, research papers and journals5.1Books6Books featuring P. Chidambaram7See also8References9External linksEarly life and educationChidambaram was born to Kandanur L. Ct. L. Palaniappa Chettiar and Lakshmi Achi in Kanadukathan in the Sivaganga District in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. His maternal grandfather was Raja Sir Annamalai Chettiar, a. wealthy merchant and banker from Chettinad.[3]Chidambaram did his schooling at the Madras Christian College Higher Secondary School[4]he passed the one-year pre University course from Loyola College, Chennai. After graduating with a BSc degree in statistics from the Presidency College, Chennai, he completed his Bachelor of Laws from the Madras Law College (now Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College) and his MBA from Harvard Business School in the class of 1968. He also holds a master's degree from Loyola College in Chennai.[5]During this time his politics inclined to the left and in 1969 he joined N. Ram, later editor of The Hindu, and the women's activist Mythili Sivaraman in starting a journal called the Radical Review.[6]Chidambaram has two brothers and one sister.[1]His father's business interests covered textiles, trading and plantations in India. He chose to concentrate on his legal practice and stayed away from the family business.[citation needed]He enrolled as a lawyer in the Madras High Court, becoming a senior advocate in 1984. He had offices in Delhi and Chennai and practiced in the Supreme Court and various high courts of India.Political careerP. Chidambaram in his office after taking over the charge of the Union Minister of Finance in New Delhi on May 24, 2004Chidambaram was elected to the Lok Sabha (Lower House) of the Indian Parliament from the Sivaganga constituency of Tamil Nadu in general elections held in 1984. He was a union leader for MRF and worked his way up in the Congress party. He was the Tamil Nadu Youth Congress president and then the general secretary of the Tamil Nadu Pradesh Congress Committee unit. He was inducted into the Union (Indian federal) Council of Ministers in the government headed by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on 21 September 1985 as a Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Commerce and then in the Ministry of Personnel. His main actions during his tenure in this period was to control the price of tea and he has been criticized by the Government of Sri Lanka for destroying the Sri Lankan tea trade by fixing the prices of the commodity in India using state power. He was elevated to the rank of Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions in January 1986. In October of the same year, he was appointed to the Ministry of Home Affairs as Minister of State for Internal Security. He continued to hold both offices until general elections were called in 1989. The Indian National Congress government was defeated in the general elections of 1989.In June 1991, Chidambaram was inducted as a Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Commerce, by the then Prime Minister Mr P V Narasimha Rao; a post he held till July 1992. He was later re-appointed Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Commerce in February 1995 and held the post until April 1996. He made some radical changes in India's export-import (EXIM) policy, while at the Ministry of Commerce.[citation needed]In 1996, Chidambaram quit the Congress party and joined a breakaway faction of the Tamil Nadu state unit of the Congress party called the Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC). In the general elections held in 1996, TMC along with a few national and regional level opposition parties, formed a coalition government. The coalition government came as a big break for Chidambaram, who was given the key cabinet portfolio of Finance. His 1997 budget is still remembered as the dream budget[7]for the Indian economy. The coalition government was a short-lived one (it fell in 1998), but he was reappointed to the same portfolio in the government formed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2004.Deputy Prime Minister of South Korea Hyun Oh-seok with P. Chidambaram in 2013In 1998, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took the reins of the government for the first time and it was not until May 2004 that Chidambaram would be back in government. Chidambaram became Minister of Finance again in the Congress party – Communist Party United Progressive Alliance government on 24 May 2004. During the intervening period Chidambaram made some experiments in his political career, leaving the TMC in 2001 and forming his own party, the Congress Jananayaka Peravai, largely focused on the regional politics of Tamil Nadu. The party failed to take off into mainstream Tamil Nadu or national politics. Just before the elections of 2004, he merged his party with the mainstream Congress party and when the Congress won the election, he was inducted into the Council of Ministers under the new Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as cabinet Minister of Finance.[8]On 30 November 2008, he was appointed the Union Home Minister following the resignation of Shivraj Patil who had come under intense pressure to tender his resignation following a series of terror attacks in India, including the Mumbai attacks on 26 November 2008. The public response to this move was generally favourable given Chidambaram's reputation for competence and efficiency.He has been credited with taking the bold decision of prioritising elections above corporate demands to deploy security for the 2009 Indian Premier League.[9]In 2009, Chidambaram was re-elected from the Sivaganga Lok Sabha constituency in the Congress and retained the Home ministry.[10]He was one of the representatives of the central government when a tri-party agreement was signed with the Gorkha Hill Council and the Government of West Bengal, an agreement which was a result of Mamata Banerjee's effort to end a decade long unrest in the hills of Darjeeling.[11]The Indian National Congress appointed P. Chidambaram as one of thirteen senior spokespersons on 15 September 2014.[12]He ceded his seat to his son Karti in 2014, which resulted in electoral defeat for his son.[13][14][15][16]Family and personal lifeChidambaram's mother, Lakshmi Acchi, was the daughter of Sir Annamalai Chettiar, a banker and merchant, and was granted the title of Raja by British. Annamalai Chettiar was the founder of Annamalai University and United India Insurance Company Limited. His brother, Ramaswami Chettiar, was the founder of the Indian Bank and the co-founder of another major bank, the Indian Overseas Bank.[17][18][19][20][21]He is married to Nalini Chidambaram, daughter of Justice (Retd.) P.S. Kailasam, of the Supreme Court, and Mrs. Soundra Kailasam, a renowned Tamil poet and author. Nalini Chidambaram is a senior advocate practising in the Madras High Court and the Supreme Court of India. He has a son, Karti P. Chidambaram, who graduated with a BBA degree from the University of Texas, Austin, and a Masters in Law from the University of Cambridge. Karti, a member of the Congress Party's AICC, is active in Tamil Nadu state politics. Karti is married to Dr. Srinidhi Rangarajan, a well-known Bharathanatyam dancer and medical doctor, working with the Apollo Group of Hospitals in Chennai. Karti and Srinidhi have a daughter, Aditi Nalini Chidambaram.ControversiesThe neutrality of this section is disputed. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please do not remove this message until conditions to do so are met.(August 2019)(Learn how and when to remove this template message)The Voluntary Disclosure of Income Scheme (VDIS) 1997, which he announced when he was Finance Minister with the United Front government, was condemned by the Controller and Auditor General of India as abusive because of the loopholes that made it possible to fudge data to the financial advantage of the confessor.[22]Chidambaram was criticised for his ministry's failure to prevent the 2011 Mumbai bombings, despite massive investments in security following the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Three years after the 2008 attacks, security preparations were proven to be inadequate with channel breakdown and failures in modernising, procuring, and installing security equipment.[23]Chidambaram defended the agencies under his ministry against the charge of intelligence failure with the response which was later ridiculed by many people in India and its media:Having no intelligence in this case, however, does not mean that there was a failure on part of the intelligence agencies.[24]There has been no intelligence failure. There was no intelligence warning about 13/7.[25]Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayaram Jayalalithaa wrote to the Chief Election Commissioner in 2011 that data entry operators at Sivaganga had transferred 3,400 votes polled by Kannappan from 11 polling stations in Chidambaram's favour. News reports suggest that on May 16, 2009, the AIADMK candidate Raja Kannappan was declared elected by 3555 votes at 12.30 pm, and the news was also broadcast on television. But in a dramatic reversal a few hours later, P Chidambaram was declared elected by 3354 votes at 4.30 pm, and was confirmed as the winner after a recount at 8.30 pm.[26]On 7 April 2009, Chidambaram was assaulted by Sikh journalist Jarnail Singh during a press conference in Delhi on the issue of a "clean chit" to Jagdish Tytler. Singh, who writes for the Hindi daily newspaper Dainik Jagaran was dissatisfied with Chidamabaram's answer to a question on the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) "clean chit" regarding Jagdish Tytler's involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. It was the first shoe throwing incident in India.[27][28]Chidambaram was part of Vedanta's legal team and on its board before becoming finance minister in 2004 [42].[29]In 2002, a year before UK's Financial Services Authority allowed Sterlite to reconstitute itself as Vedanta Resources Plc, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) served a show-cause notice on three of Chairman Anil Agarwal's family. The notice was a demand that Sterlite directors answer allegations about using their holding companies-Volcan and Twinstar-to avoid paying taxes on forex transactions. It was a polite way of saying there was prima facie evidence, dating back to 1993, that the Agarwals were guilty of money laundering. For seven years the case dragged on in courts as Sterlite employed top lawyers to use every possible delaying tactic. P. Chidambaram argued in Sterlite's defence in a 2003 Bombay High Court case related to the ED's allegations. The following year, Chidambaram found himself appointed non-executive director on the board of Vedanta Resources Plc. And very soon, he became finance minister in UPA 1.Former Union Minister and Senior Advocate Ram Jethmalani's letter to Chidambaram on 6 December 2013 accused him of acting in collusion with the NDTV and laundering Rs 5000 crores of money through Mauritius route back to India.[30]INX Media, Aircel-Maxis caseMain article: INX Media caseIn 2006, political leader Dr. Subramanian Swamy alleged that a company controlled by Karti Chidambaram, the son of Minister of Finance P. Chidambaram, received a five-percent share of Aircel to get part of ₹40 billion paid by Maxis Communications for the 74-percent share of Aircel. According to Swamy, Chidambaram withheld Foreign Investment Promotion Board clearance of the deal until his son received the five-percent share in Siva's company.[31]The issue was raised a number of times in Parliament by the opposition, which demanded Chidambaram's resignation.[32]Although Chidambaram and the then ruling Congress government denied the allegations,[33]The Pioneer and India Today reported the existence of documents showing that Chidambaram delayed approval of the foreign direct investment proposal by about seven months.[31][34][35]It was alleged that Chidambaram's son, Karti was a direct beneficiary of the 2G spectrum case. His company, Advantage Strategic Consulting had a five per cent stake in Aircel Televentures, even as his father P Chidambaram, as Finance minister, was alleged to have offered FIPB clearance for the Aircel-Maxis deal only if his son's company,Advantage Strategic Consulting, got shares in Aircel Ventures.[36]The Enforcement Directorate is currently investigating his involvement in Aircel deal.[37]In 2012, and, subsequently, in 2016, information of wide scale corruption by Chidambaram's son Karti Chidambaram and Robert Vadra, with the help of his father's position, including through the Airtel-Maxis deal and the Uttar Pradesh NRHM scam, was unveiled in prominent newspapers and media in India.[38]Karti has also been found to be the recipient of vast sums of income from shell companies, partly owned by his friends, and located in Mauritius and Singapore. He has been found to hold real estate in the United Kingdom and other nations, with money vastly in excess of his legitimate earnings.[39]Simultaneously, Chidambaram and his son Karti have been dogged with allegations of corruption, misuse of position, insider trading and money laundering.On 20 August 2019, the Delhi High Court dismissed both anticipatory bail pleas of Chidambaram in connection with corruption charges in the INX Media case during his tenure as Finance minister in UPA Government.[38][39][22][40]On 21 August, he appeared at the Congress HQ and addressed a press conference stating that he was "not accused"; however, he left the place, and, later, he was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate at his home.[41][42][43]On 5 September 2019, Supreme Court dismissed his appeal against rejection of anticipatory bail plea by Delhi High Court. The Special Court ordered Chidambaram to stay in judicial custody in Tihar Jail for 14 days.[44]He is presently in Tihar Jail.Books, research papers and journalsChidambaram is a published author of several books.BooksFearless in Opposition: Power and Accountability (Publisher: Rupa Publications India; ISBN 978-8129145291)Standing Guard: A Year in Opposition (Publisher: Rupa Publications India; ISBN 978-8129139627)Speaking Truth to Power: My Alternative View (Publisher: Rupa Publications India; ISBN 978-8129151063)Undaunted: Saving the Idea of India (Publisher: Rupa Publications India; ISBN 978-9353333737)A View from the Outside: Why Good Economics Works for Everyone (Publisher: Penguin India; ISBN 978-0670081165)Books featuring P. ChidambaramAn Agenda for India's Growth: Essays in Honour of P. Chidambaram (Publisher: Academic Foundation; ISBN 978-9332700093)

Indian para military work under extremely difficult geographical and climatic conditions where temperature ranges from 47 degree celcius to minus 47 degree celcius. Unlike Army, they don’t get martyr status and less compensation in case of death or disability. Their weapons are poor as compared to Army and spend long border patrol duties. An ITBP (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) platoon may undertake 10 or 21 days isolated patrol at high altitude Tibet border and if they face Chinese PLA platoon, things become ugly with pushing, jostling and sometime trading punches. BSF (Border Security Force) platoon moves 10-15 KM north or south along the border alternate days in Rajasthan desert or riverine Bengal plains but mostly fails to prevent smuggling of men, material, narcotics, fake currency and cow. CRPF faces constant naxalism violence. But next 5 years (2019-2024) could be turning point for para military forces.Learning from the Doklam experience, the ITBP will soon have an air wing primarily for reconnaissance so that transgressions by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), troop build-up and construction activities across the border can be spotted in time. For this, two twin-engined helicopters are being procured, which will be used for transportation of combat troops, evacuation of dead, injured and sick jawans, supplying rations and flying VIPs at altitudes of 16,000-18,000 feet in the Himalayas. ITBP helicopters will operate from its bases in Chandigarh and Borjhar (Guwahati), covering almost the whole 3,488-km-long border with China, from J&K to Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and the northeast region, including Sikkim. The process to acquire the helicopters on wet lease has been initiated. The helicopters will have several features to meet operational exigencies at high altitudes and reach forward locations. The twin-engine helicopters will be able to transport 8-10 troopers on a single trip, carry arms/ ammunition/ explosives to forward locations, fly for two hours without refuelling, have night flying capability and special features for slithering of troopers and dropping of rations. UAV or drones can also keep a tab on Chinese transgressions. India is one of the fastest-growing markets for UAVs, and one of the top UAV importers for military purposes worldwide, says a report. According to global market intelligence and advisory firm BIS Research, by 2021, the Indian UAV market will reach USD 885.7 million, while the global market size will touch USD 21.47 billion. The report noted that customer-focused innovation in UAV technology and the rise in demand for UAVs for surveillance, civil, and commercial applications from global markets will drive this growth. "For India, growth in both military and commercial applications, great market potential, and growing adoption. The market for commercial end-users in India will supersede the military market in the country by 2021, and the cumulative market in India will hit USD 885.7 million by 2022.The technological advancement in UAVs and the demand for multi-functional UAVs have pushed manufacturers to invest heavily in the research and development of cost-effective and feature-rich UAVs. Indian companies such as AUS, IdeaForge, and Quidich are either already manufacturing or operating UAVs for customers. "The market for UAVs is largely dominated by non-commercial end-users, due to the high prices of UAVs used in defence applications. However, relentless and fast-paced development of commercial end-users is aiding in the creation of more cost-effective and feature-packed UAVs, pushing open the floodgates in this sector."Realising the need to have smart barriers to check intrusion from Bangladesh and Pakistan, ministry of home affairs (MHA) is setting up a space and technology cell. The cell is expected to improve border management and help in operations. ISRO and DRDO officials will be deputed to run the cell which would be set up within home ministry’s Border Management Division. This is one of the new initiatives of the ministry which home secretary is reviewing for expeditious implementation in consultation with ISRO and DRDO. The ministry has identified areas where space technology could be leveraged to put a check on suspicious activities around the 15,106.7 km land border and 7,516.6 km coastline with seven countries. A task force constituted by home ministry under had submitted a confidential report in September 2018 to secretary (space) and ISRO chairman which has somewhat become the template for harnessing space technology for border management and operational purposes too.The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is all set to purchase 25 high-end drones to equip itself to better conduct anti-Maoist operations and deal with militants in Jammu and Kashmir. The tendering process for the procurement of the drones has started and they are expected to be introduced by the CRPF - the country's largest paramilitary force - in the next three-four months. A pre-bid conference for the procurement of the drones was held on 12 September, 2017, and the online and offline tender was opened on 26 October, 2017, with a validity of six months. These drones - each costing around Rs 15 lakh - are being purchased to help the CRPF personnel during surveillance, reconnaissance and detection in day and night operations in Jammu and Kashmir and in the dense forests of Maoist-hit states like Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. The 25 new drones will join CRPF's existing fleet of 40 and help the force get real-time inputs and avoid attacks on its troopers."The drones will have the capacity to integrate geo-referenced master maps -- provided in at least one of the commonly used digital map formats - with real-time and clear video during flights at heights of around 250 metres. They will also have better quality zoom control and thermal imaging for night operations," as per CRPF official. New drones would be able to detect human-sized targets at 300 metres or more and have additional features when compared to the CRPF's existing Indian-made light drones, named "Netra". "These drones will also comprise a ground control station with data link equipment, daylight camera payload, night camera payload, universal battery charger with power supply system.”The move is part of CRPF focus on better equipping the force and improving its surveillance infrastructure to minimise casualty in maoist areas. The tender, issued on August 25 2017 year invited an "online global tender" in a two-bid system for the supply of 25 micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAVs). The tender seeks a two-year guarantee from the manufacturers, who have to supply the drones within 90 days of winning the contract. Training of 75 CRPF personnel to handle the drones and minor repairs at the 4 Signal Battalion of the force in Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh, are part of the conditions laid down in the document. The over 300,000-strong CRPF is mandated to provide internal security in Jammu and Kashmir and Maoist-affeted areas.CISF (Central Industrial Security Force) plans to patrol in airports or metro stations with factory-built robotic canines/dogs. These robotic canines can not only sniff out cocaine or explosives potential and bomb threats (using electronic sensors) but also conduct X-ray scans of the passenger luggage with their electronic eyes on the fly. Robots are already tasked with functions like conducting security checks or offering passenger information at airports in Japan, South Korea, Canada and the United States, among others. CISF takes care of high value economic and industrial property of Indian government like Metro Rail, airports, Nuclear power plants, government offices, ministry and PSU (public sector unit) banks, offices and factory etc.BSF arrests Indian & Bangladeshi cattle smugglers. Bangladesh border is porous and that cannot be sealed by building tall wire-fence.The BSF said in a statement in Shillong on 23rd July 2017 that they seized 276 cattle and contraband items worth more than Rs. 49 lakh while being smuggled out of India to Bangladesh at the zero line of the Indo-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya during the past five days. However, no arrests could be made as the smugglers fled in jungles. The seizures were made Tuka, Nayabazar and Lyngkhat in East Khasi Hills district, at Gopinathkilla village in South West Garo Hills, at Ganganagar village in West Khasi Hills and Dumkaphal village in South Garo Hills. The smugglers cut fencing wires or used unfenced areas to smuggle cattle, the statement said. This kind of news appear regularly in media. Many parts of the international border are still unfenced in Meghalaya. Underground tunnels were also detected in Bangladesh border.The BSF deployed UAVs and erect a 'smart fence' to check smuggling and infiltration from across the most notorious riverine and porous gaps along the India-Bangladesh border by next year. Union home ministry had approved a proposal of the force to deploy an indigenously developed smart fence at the 48.12-km-long riverine Dhubri border area along the Brahmaputra river in Assam. The smart fence will detect illegal human or cattle movement with the help of infra-red rays. The control room will get alerted by satellite-based signals in case of a breach followed by a response by a quick reaction armed team of the force, he said. At present, BSF troops on boats guard this Dhubri patch which is highly prone to illegal migration and cattle smuggling due to the changing course of the river. No permanent structure like border posts can be erected in this area. In last four decades, demographic profile of lower Assam has changed completely due to rampant illegal immigrations supported by vote bank politics. Lower Assam districts like Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Goalpara, Bongaigaon etc. have seen huge increase in population that led to Army chief Bipin Rawat commenting that demographic change in Assam is part of China-Pakistan conspiracy to destabilize north-east region. Theincrease in Muslim population in several districts of Assam, and rise of Badruddin Ajmal-led AIUDF (All India United Democratic Front) in the state, is a growth that is "faster" than that of the growth BJP in the 1980s. The statement created controversy as army chief should not speak about politics. But everybody should realize the depth of the problem. Assam was on fire in early 80’s due to illegal influx problem. Thousands of building, road bridges were burnt by local population opposing the illegal influx. Later these people formed milltant organisation for separate Bodoland state and outright separation of Assam from union of India by separatist ULFA (United Liberation Front of Assam). This led to Assam accord in mid 80’s and a new party AGP (Assam Gana Parishad) consisting of mostly students agitating against illegal influx came to power. But in absence of technology, illegal influx continued. Now Indian government seems to have a political will and technology to prevent illegal influx.The BSF has also urged home ministry to sanction the raising of five more battalions (about 5,000 personnel) and their deployment along this border region to check crimes like smuggling of cattle, fake Indian currency notes, arms, ammunition and narcotics in some of the "most vulnerable and notorious areas. Cattle smuggling on Bangladesh border is also gradually coming down. The figure of cattle smuggling stood at over 20 lakh cattles a few years back but this was now only about five to six lakh, as per BSF officials. Indian government wants eliminate cattle smuggling to zero and that can be done only with smart monitoring using smart fence and drones. A BSF platoon of 15 foot soldiers generally walk 15 KM along the fence in one direction and comes back by night. So they travel 30 Km a day under extreme heat, humidity, rain or mosquito infested jungles. Next day the same platoon goes to the other direction along the fence and completes 30 KM daily duty of patrolling the border. But does this daily hard work prevent illegal influx or cattle smuggling? Certainly not. Smugglers and infiltrators know when BSF troops will may patrol the area and they do their illegal activity few hours before or after BSF troop visit the area. So, a 24x7 areal or sensor based monitoring can prevent illegal influx and cattle smuggling. Areal monitoring can be done by helicopter but that is a costly solution. Ideal solution is drone which can stay float 24 hours with night vision capability. Along with drones, smart fence with camera trap (like camera traps used in forests where camera takes picture only when it sences some movement), passing electricity through fence (called cobra fence) and vibration detection device (to prevent underground tunnelling). A fifty KM ‘no cow zone belt‘ should be made along entire Bangladesh border as corrupt politicians, BSF personel, transporter are part of cow smuggling gang which has become any industry in this border.Tunneling is a serious concern in the Indo-Pak border areas also, especially in Jammu region, for smuggling of contraband and arms. Occasionally Lashkar and Jaish terrorists also enters India using tunnels. A study by AIIMS has found that opioids worth Rs 7,500 crore are consumed in Punjab every year. Of these, heroin's share is a massive Rs 6,500 crore. This is a startling revelation given that almost all the heroin that comes to Punjab is through the Pakistan border, pumped in by smugglers allegedly aided by ISI. It is this smuggler network that the terrorists who attacked the Pathankot airbase are believed to have used.Drug-sniffing dogs, deployed for the first time in Punjab to check transportation and distribution of drugs ahead of Assembly polls, have helped the law enforcement agencies to recover 58 kg of poppy husk. Apprehending distribution of drugs by political parties to lure the voters, the Election Commission had ordered police to deploy 22 sniffer dogs at prominent places including inter-state borders, railway stations, bus-stands to check the movement of narcotic substances in the poll-bound state.With the arrest of Punjab Police inspector Inderjit Singh on the charges of drug trafficking, the nexus between politicians, police and drug traffickers has surfaced again and again. The Punjab Special Task Force arrested accused police inspector on the charges of drug trafficking and seized a huge cache of drugs, arms and ammunition from his Jalandhar Police Lines house and his Phagwara house. “The police seized 7kg of narcotics, including 4kg of heroin, an Italy-made .9 mm pistol, live cartridges of various calibers and Rs 16.50 lakh cash.” Inspector Inderjit, close to many high-police officers, was famous for catching large quantities of drugs. Regularly drugs are detected by pilice and BSF which embarrasses the state government.Punjab’s government and police say the answer lies at the 553-km-long international border with Pakistan and blame the Border Security Force (BSF) for not doing enough to curb drugs smuggling. The BSF says it’s caught in a “catch-22” situation and that only a minuscule amount of drugs found in the state comes from across the border.Border farmers in Punjab should be rewarded as many of them are aware of smuggling activity but keep quite as drug lobby consists of extremely big and powerful people.Amid the blame game, the findings of an investigation by an Indian media, with figures obtained under the RTI Act from 14 of Punjab’s 28 police districts of drugs seizures, map a clear drugs trail that starts from the border and seeps into the hinterland. The BSF’s haul of heroin at the Punjab border was 67 kg in 2011, 288 kg in 2012, 322 kg in 2013, 361 kg in 2014, 344 kg in 2015.The Border Security Force (BSF) has flagged concerns over increasing radicalisation of Muslim population in the border district of Jaisalmer in Rajasthan with rising prevalence of "Arab customs" and increase in Muslim populations, reduced communication between Hindus and Muslims. The 2018 study found a high 22-25 per cent growth rate in Muslim population as compared to 8-10 per cent of other communities. There is a rise in religiosity with higher attendance of children at mosques for more frequent namaz. These could be first step towards radicalisation.Citing “glamourised funerals” of militants as a reason for recruitment of local youths into militancy, Jammu and Kashmir Police’s intelligence wing has asked the state police to take steps to prevent “massive and multiple” funerals of militants in the Valley. “The funerals of killed militants have become a fertile ground for recruiters,” reads a confidential report sent by the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Criminal Investigation Department (CID), to Director General of Police S P Vaid.The report states, “(The) massive gatherings that are being witnessed in funerals of killed local militants post-2016 unrest is a serious concern which has to be addressed…. These gatherings romanticise and glamourise the terrorists and give boost to militancy.”Terrorists in apple orchids or remote jungle Naxalites can be eliminated by killer drones with minimum casualtyCiting many examples of young men who have joined militant ranks after attending the funeral of a slain militant, the report says that militants have been successful in glamourising militancy by appearing at such funerals and offering gun salute. The report, prepared two months ago, states: “It has been noticed that soon after burial of killed local militant(s), one or two local boys, who have participated in their funerals, join militancy. By giving regular appearance at funerals to give gun salutes, or to put forth their point of view/ideology, active militants have been successful in glamourising subversive activities. The massive turnout at funerals of killed terrorists is an indicator of the radicalisation level.”The report calls for keeping an eye on potential recruits living in the locality of the slain militant and the need to keep them away from such funerals. These youths, “who have inclination towards militancy”, should be called to the police station concerned and directed to remain there until the burial is over, the report suggests. “The process should be initiated while the encounter is going on.”In November 2018, 39 terrorists were killed in Jammu and Kashmir, the highest in the year and around 250 terrorists were killed in 2018 which is highest in recent years. Terrorist organisations like Lashkar-e-Toiba, Hizbul Mujahideen and Jaish-e-Mohammad suffered big blow. Army Chief General Bipin Rawat had said that the security forces are ‘one by one’ killing terrorists and hard intelligence is coming from the local population. Local recruitment after attending terrorists funeral is also reducing. In 2018, 44 districts were removed from the list of Naxalite affected disctrict but brutal killing of CRPF jawans continue in naxalite areas. This will again happen during April-May 2019 elections.Former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh said ‘left extremism or naxaliteism is the biggest internal threat to India’s security.

Truth of Rafale...What is happening in name of Rafale is not an event, it’s the consequences of events that took in past, this is just the result.Further what are the issues in the deal?PRICEINC’s Deal never happened, so they technically don’t have any right to ask for costs nor are they citing their sources, but general public may compare our deal to other customers via a simple google search.Here we find that:Rafale has 3 Customers:IndiaQatarEgyptEach Country has bought36 Pcs36 Pcs24 PcsDeal for each country was sealed in (Bn Euros)7.877.45.2Cost per piece for each country( million euros)218.61205.5216So considering the fact that each country has different requirement hence different customisations therefore fully furnished aircrafts final cost may vary BUT from which angle does it looks that there has been a huge difference between us and other customer’s deal. There is only a mere difference of 6.3% on cost per piece at the two polar ends.This effectively and brutally demolishes RaGa’s and INC’s hullabaloo claim of the deal being over priced. It’s a complete BS.Further now to real facts:The figure of Rs.525 crore or approximately €79 million per Rafale, which the Indian National Congress has been citing, is based on Dassault’s 2007 RFP response at the then exchange rate (€I = Rs.66) and that too for only the 18 Rafales that were to be delivered off-the-shelf .The 2007 price for each of the 18 Rafales would have amounted in 2015 to €100.85 million (Rs.765.4 crore at 2015 exchange rate of €1 = Rs 75.90).In comparison, the average price of each of the 36 “bare/green” Rafales bought in 2016 is €91.7 million (Rs.696 crore at the 2015 exchange rate), lower than both the earlier 2007 Rafale and Eurofighter EF-2000 RFP responses.OFFSETSTo understand the offsets crystal clear we need to get the one fact clear“DASSAULT ALONE DOESNOT MAKE ENTIRE AIRCRAFT”The pic aboves shows how different companies are invloved in entire Rafale Jet.The major companies are:DassaultMBDARheinmetallSnecmaThalesSo if somebody says Dassault and Reliance looted us, Sorry to say that neither even Dassault nor Reliance won’t gets to eat the complete pie it has to be distributed accordingly with other biggies then thousands of MSMEs involved on Indian sides.Now here are the Indian off set partners:*OEM= Original Equipment Manufacturer*IOP= Indian Offset PartnerThe Customer specific modifications of India are as follows:RAFAEL- LITENING target acquisition/designation podSpice-1000 standoff PGMMBDA- Meteor BVRAAM and ALARM anti-radiation missileRAFAEL- X-Guard towed-decoySPECTRA EWTARGO-2 HMDS supplied by Elbit SystemsTHALES- traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS)THALES- standby radar altimeterOptimisation of the M88 turbofan’s jet-fuel starter for operating in sub-zero temperatures at altitudes above 9,000 feet ASLIncrease in the capacity of the on-board OBOGSInclusion of weather-mapping mode of operation in the THALES-supplied RBE-2 AESA-MMRDevelopment of quad-pack ejectors for the DRDO-engineered and Spice-250 PGM-derived SAAW EMP-generating standoff PGMJV in flight-qualification of DRDO-developed 450kg laser-guided HSLD bomb and integration of the bomb’s FOG-based inertial navigation system with the Rafale’s on-board Sigma-95N RLG-INS through a MIL-STD-1553B interfaceModification of the Sigma-95N RLG-INS’ coupled GPS transceiver in order to receive MIL-STD PY-code coordinates from India’s NAVIC/IRNSS constellation of GPS satellites.[IAF Rafale M-MMRCA Costings & Platform Modification/Customisation Details ]THE KAVERI ENGINE SAGA“GE CEO once said regarding aero engines tech that: One need to go back atleast 25 years ago and make an investment of 2 Bn$ and after 20 years or so he MAY be successfull, still doubtful.( Summary of what he said).”A little bit history about the kaveri engine:The GTRE GTX-35VS Kaveri is a turbofan project developed by the (GTRE), a lab under the DRDOThe Kaveri was originally intended to power production models of the Tejas LCA fighter.This was approx 202 mn $ project which after many revisions and delays went on to become 640mn $.Later on the project was divided into two category: K9 and K 10K9: Will be completely indigenous with only foreign consultation and certification.K10: Will be a joint venture with a foreign partner, probably rolls-royce.Problems that occured:Kaveri engine in its present form uses directionally solidified blade technology which is rather an old tech and it couldn’t tolerate the high temperature in its combustion chamber called “Kabini”. The solution was “single crystal blades”The thrust generated was nearly 65 to 70% of what was needed.Performance decay at high altitude.A peculiar noise when in after burning mode.Here comes the Rafale deal which many think was a corrupt decision by the current leadership as it just bought 36 rafales. But if we look closely to the offset, it was boon to us as under the offset:Snecma which manufacture the Rafales M-88 core agreed to help and certify the engine in 18 months.DRDO has been given a virtual blank check to channelise offsets from the Indian Rafale deal to resurrect the Kaveri.Snecma, a partner in the Rafale programme, builds the Rafale’s twin M88 turbofan engines. Under the terms of the partnership , Snecma is working to modify, certify and integrate the Kaveri on a Light Combat Aircraft airframe before 2020. The Off-set worth to DRDO alone is 9000 Crs INR. That lefts only 21000 Crs of the alleged 3000 Crs INR given to Ambani as being cried by RaGa.A later phase in the partnership will involve modifications on the Kaveri for a twin configuration on India’s AMCA fifth generation fighter concept and an altered non-reheat version for the Ghatak UCAV.According to DRDO chief the kaveri engine will be ready by next aero india 2019.Another good new is that altitude test and flying test bed trials have been completed. Official statement of MoD in Parliament— In a written reply to the Lok Sabha in December 2016, Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre had called the effort of the GTRE in developing the engine as “an attempt to mastering one of the most complex technologies”. The minister said the altitude test and flying test bed trials for the engine had been completed and other developmental problems were being addressed to make the engine flight-worthy through in-house efforts as well with assistance from abroad”.The engine will be first used on Tejas PV-1. Other uses will beGhatak UCAV(Dry variant or w/o afterburner)AMCATejas Mk2Also, Rolls royce has collaborated with DRDO on developing the K10 engine. This engine’s first prototype is to be expected in 12 month. The news was broken out in Aero-india 2017 in february.This is where the biggest ToT will take place and as Air Marshal B.S Dhanoa said the ToT is now to DRDO instead of HAL but it comes to “Indians”.WHY NOT HAL?DRDO has been quite honest with R&D despite hiccups but when it comes to manufacture en mass which is supposed to be done by HAL, there work ethos has been questioned for many years.Latest News:15 December 2018: Now Kharge is a key member of INC. Yes the same INC whose president shows sympathy to HAL in rallies while his key minister scre*s them in Parliament.You want to see more proofs why Dassault was hesitant to go with HAL?Here it is:[Flying coffins in making? Second hand engines used in Sukhois][Su-30MKI fighter crashes near Nashik; both pilots safe]Wanna have more? This same congress during it’s tenure set up a Standing Committee to review HAL and made 88 page long report rebuking it left and right.These are some vital excerpts from the said reports. These go on to reinstate two things:Neither HAL is a victim, it’s history would make any foreign company think twice before collaborating, otherwise they may permanently loose market as big as India like Denel did. No body wants that.Nor Congress is a Saviour. It has roasted HAL while in tenure today Kharge roasted whilst in opposition. So RaGa’s HAL visit is a mere farce nothing else.Further several more questions arises here and ought to be asked to congress and it’s highly knowledgeable supportersIn 2010 INC signed a $4.1 Bn deal for C-17 Globemaster with US, what stopped them from going for offset programme and include HAL as beneficiary if they were so concerned about it?In 2011 C-130 Hercules were inducted in IAF, but the off set was given to TATA, why was HAL kept out?During the Rafale’s offset why was Mukesh ambani’s company allowed to be offset partner, what experience did he have, however the pact expired dassault finally collaborated with Anil Ambani RDEL to form RADA which was 49:51 sharing between Dassault and Reliance hence Ambani don’t owns the entire company. Therefore even if “Modi ji puts 30000 Crore in Ambani’s pocket” Ambani still actually gets 153000 Crs but that’s not possible as said DRDO, BEL, THALES etc wanna have their share too, How do you justify his 30000 Cr jibe? BS again!What was the total value of deals given to HAL during UPA tenure?Don’t know.But here are some hard and cold facts regarding the same during Modi’s regime:LCA MK-1A: 123 (Biggest Order book)LCH: (65 + 114)Pcs (IOC granted, first batch of 15 purchased for user assisted trials[UAT])ALH Dhruv: 33PcsDO-228 for Civil use under UDAAN scheme.HTT-40 : 100 Pcs (DAC cleared, but order only when project completed on time else opt for Pilatus trainer further.)Drones for CRPF in Naxal regions.Upgradation for SU-30 .Formed a collaboration with Boeing and Mahindra for taking part in Naval MRCBF tender for 57 fighters.Modi regime re-started the NAL-HAL Saras aircraft programme after 9 years whose potential order will go upto 70, if HAL don’t scre*s up.That’s a failrly well order book as well as prospect for a company. How many solid orders did congress give?5. INS Vikramaditya, we bought earlier negotiated 800Mn$ carrier for navy from Russia finally in 2.5Bn$, Why?6. FGFA(5 th generation aircraft), T-90 deals were very faulty:we are the co-developer of FGFA we paid for it’s R&D we got nothing but only the disappointment, our pilots and engineers are not even allowed to get near to it. Project started in 2007(Congress), we were almost 40% financing the project, but our workshare was below 15% of this project.T-90: Deal was signed in 2007, Transfer of Technology was agreed upon, but never happened, all this has to be replaced by modifying technologies developed from our very own Arjun Tank. T-90 never had a crew cabin cooling system(curse in desert area), Night vision, thermal vision, all are modified tech from Arjun and produced by BEL. T-90 even lost against Arjun Mk-1 in comparative trials which eas later re-iterated by CAG but but but again second batch was ordered of the same loosing T-90 sidelining arjun for reasons of being “Heavy” when it has a ground pressure lower than T-90, when it is not night blind and when IT HAS WON IN A FACE TO FACE TRIALS.WHY?WHY RELIANCE?You see this big boys here? Guess who is it?United States Navy 7th fleet [USS 7th fleet]It’s based in Japan and it’s sole purpose is to maintain power balance in Indo-Pacific region along with other allies including India against any Chinese domination in International waters. At present, it is the largest of the forward-deployed U.S. fleets, with 60 to 70 ships, 300 aircraft and 40,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel.Now it’s certain these ships requires lot of maintainance and it can’t be done by some Joker, guess who is the maintainance contractor?ANS: RDEL [Proof: Reliance Defence to maintain USN's 7th Fleet ships]Perhaps this alone is sufficient to settle down the fact that “AMBANI HAS NO EXPERIENCE IN DEFENSE BUSINESS”.Now let’s come to said dealIt remains a no brainer to say Ambani has no experience of Defense sector or knowledge about it, that’s a utter crappy logic let’s take an solid example:Ever heard of Lockheed Martin?Yes the one which has churned legends like F-22, SR-71. It’s the biggest arms manufacturer on this planetWho is it’s CEO?Marillyn Adams HewsonYou know her education?It’s nowhere closely related to the field concerned neither engineering nor applied science.She is a BBA and a Master of Arts in Economics.Anil Ambani is a BSC and MBA.Education wise their is not much difference albeit Anil Ambani does have a STEM background.Now he is not going to have to go to the factory personally and personally make those products, he has the finacial resources with which he can hire appropriate people who can get his job done same stands with him buying out Pipavav Yard same applies to him joining hands with Dassault albeit this time Dassault shall provide the technical know how and Know-what and Reliance will be the Indian host to Dassault to enter Indian Markets as DPP only allows foreign company for 100% FDI only under automatic route which is not the case here.Here several points are to be remembered:Rafale will be bought off the shelf from France and all of it will be completely manufactured by France and In France.Reliance doesnot have any job to do regarding Rafale.Reliance will not alone be benefited by offset clause, it is JV of Dassault and Reliance called DRAL in Nagpur that will cadre to the offset clause.DRAL will manufacture composite nose cones for Dassault’s Falcon passenger jet, which has lucrative market in India keeping in mind the UDAAN scheme that requires smaller chartered flights.Other projects:Reliance Defence speeds up Rs 2,500-crore patrol vessel projectNow I will debunk the exprience lie further?Let’s get into some technical detail.The nose cones are basically a composite material made of various kinds of composites. Because they protect sensitive instruments while allowing electronic signals to pass through, nose cones – also known as radomes – must be made from specific materials. These materials often include fiberglass, quartz, honeycomb and foam cores; as well as various chemical resins. All comes under various types of Composites.Further divided into A-Sandwich and C-Sandwich, Sandwich radomes tend to offer better performance over narrow frequency bands, making them the preferred option for military and scientific applications. A-Sandwich radomes are comprised of low-dielectric foam or a honeycomb core between two slender laminates.A C-sandwich radome is made up of three skin layers and two foam layers. The solidity of each foam layer can be tuned for ideal RF performance, allowing for many probable constructions that offer high-quality RF performance and mechanical strength. C-sandwich also provides better performance than A-sandwich radomes.[More at: Honeycomb structure - Wikipedia, Aircraft Nose Cone Construction and Maintenance]Now since same RDEL is related to ship business for a long while here comes the next part how even ship building has composites manufacturing and application playing vital part.Composite materials have been used in the marine industry for a number of years. The more traditional applications for composites include gratings, ducts, shafts, piping, hull shells, etc for several decades. Wood and ferrocement are some of the other composites techniques that are still being used for marine applications.Marine Composite MaterialsFerrocementFerrocement is probably the earliest use of composites in the Marine industry, used for developing low-cost barges. A steel frame formed of reinforcing rod that is covered with chicken wire, is used as a 'template' to form the hull by pouring cement around the template. It is then plastered with ferrocement and then cured. Although it is an inexpensive composite, armature corrosion is a common problem under chemically aggressive marine conditions. However, there are still a number of ferro boats in use today.Glass reinforced plasticGlass fibers became available just after the development of polyester resins. Glass reinforced plastic boats came into existence since the early 1950s and are a significant composite construction technique in Marine applications today.Wood/Adhesive CompositesWartime requirements led to the development of 'hot molded' and 'cold molded' boat building techniques based on laying thin wood veneers over a frame. On the other hand, high-performance, urea-based adhesives have also been widely developed for molding marine hulls and in aircraft manufacture to help speed up the production process and reduce dependency on Aluminum and steel.Aramid fiber CompositesAramid fibers are being widely used to strengthen sailing yacht structures like keel and bow sections. Also, Aramid Fiber composites also have improved shock absorption characteristics, perfect for ocean racing applications.Carbon fiberCarbon fibers are increasingly used for sailboats, furniture on super-yachts and high strength interior moldings as they offer vessel stability benefits and high performance with minimal weight.So if RADA is making composites part for aerospace they are not completely new to it ,they have been in composites application, Defense Business, but in marine defense application here they just stepped in aerospace composites application. Hence they are new to aerospace but neither to defense nor to composites technology.Now since the Supreme Court of India has dropped down all 4 PILs RaGa and team can foul on whatever issues they want.The court was given the details as asked in a “CLOSED ENVELOPE” which is given to CAG and will be presented to PAC henceforth. Hence it is and won’t be made public except court and as been given in excerpt from judgement given by SC and only part of it will come to PAC and CAG as well.Jai Hind!