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Delhi Edition of The Hindu
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BITs and pieces of trade with Israel
Many pundits continue to gaze at the India-Israel relationship through the lens of Palestine.
However, some argue that Indias relations with Israel and Palestine, a process that began in
1992 when New Delhi established diplomatic relations with Tel Aviv.
PM Narendra Modis visit to Israel earlier this month.
Enormous trade potential
Growing trade and investment relations are a strong reason to study India-Israel relations on
their own merit.
Bilateral merchandise trade increased from $200 million in 1992 to around $4 billion in 2016,
an increase of 2,000% in 25 years.
Cumulative foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows from Israel, from April 2000 to March 2017,
stood at $122 million- While these are low, constituting only 0.04% of total FDI inflows India.
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There is enormous potential for Israeli investment in fields such as
1)-Renewable energy and
2)-Water management (drip irrigation and desalination).
3)-Defence production, which is at the heart of the Make in India campaign- a move that will
help India save billions of dollars.
Israel is the third largest supplier of arms to India after Russia and the U.S.
Domestic manufacturing, reduce dependence-bring in new technology.
Recently set up plant in Madhya Pradesh, between India and Israel to manufacture small arms.
Also agreed to conduct negotiations on a bilateral investment treaty (BIT)
In 1996, India and Israel signed a BIT.
However- reportedly terminated by India when it unilaterally discontinued 58 BITs recently.
For a new BIT to be negotiated, both sides will have to start afresh.
However, there are challenges given the many fundamental differences Israel and India have on
BITs, as outlined in their Model BITs of 2003 and 2016, respectively.
Foreign investors prefer international arbitration()- which is faster and independent .
1)-Israeli model gives an investor the choice to submit any investment dispute with a state to
international arbitration if not resolved within six months through negotiations.
The Indian model imposes many procedural and jurisdictional restrictions on an investor-
foreign investor having to litigate in domestic courts for five years before pursuing a claim
under international law.
2)-Israels model provides a broad asset-based definition of foreign investment that covers both
FDI and portfolio investment.
Indian model of 2016 defines investment narrowly- not defined in the BIT .
3)- Israeli model contains a broad most favoured nation (MFN) provision a cornerstone of
non-discrimination in international economic relations which is missing in the Indian model.
4)- Indian model excludes taxation altogether from the purview of the BIT.
However, in the Israeli model, taxation-related measures are recognised as an exception only to
MFN and national treatment provisions
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World Investment Report 2017 issued by the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development also points out that tax-related concerns are a deterrent for some foreign
investors to invest in India.
Thus, Israeli investors will not be comfortable if taxation is completely outside BITs purview.
In a nutshell
In sum, the Indian position on BITs is very pro-state, offering limited rights and protection to
foreign investors.
The Israeli position is the opposite.
Both sides should work towards having a BIT that reconciles investment protection with a
states right to regulate.
Think beyond loan waivers
Strengthening the repayment capacity of farmers by improving and stabilising their income is
the only way to keep them out of distress.
Indian agriculture is characterised by low scale and low productivity.
About 85% of the operational landholdings in the country are below 5 acres and
67% farm households survive on an average landholding of one acre.
More than half of the area under cultivation does not have access to irrigation.
Agriculture income generated at average size of landholding is not adequate to meet needs.
The problem -> weather and market risks.
According->National Sample Survey on Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural
Households (NSS-SAS), 13.9% farm households negative return from crop production 2012-13.
Increasing debt burden
Modern agriculture requires investment in farm machinery and use of purchased inputs like
seed, fertiliser, agri-chemicals, diesel and hired labour.
Rising expenses on health, education, social ceremonies & non-food items put additional risk
Recently a few States like Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab and Karnataka have responded
to farm distress by rolling out farm loan waiver schemes as a measure of immediate relief to
those farmers who qualify certain criteria.
The demand for such measures is spreading to other States too.
Loan waivers suffer from several drawbacks in this respect.
1)-It covers only a tiny fraction of farmers
2)-Farmers investing from their own savings and those borrowing from non-institutional
sources are equally vulnerable.
3)-Many cases, one household has multiple loans either from different sources or in the name
of different family members
4)- Loan waiving excludes agricultural labourers who are even weaker than cultivators
5)- Long-run consequences to the banking business.
6)- Beneficiaries were not eligible for either debt waiver or debt relief but were granted the
benefits.
A similar amount spent on improvement of agriculture infrastructure and other developmental
activities would create a base for future growth and development of the sector.
Sustainable solutions 1
1)-Identify the vulnerable farmers based on certain criteria and give an equal amount as
financial relief to the vulnerable and distressed families.
2)-Raise income from agricultural activities and enhance access to non-farm sources of income.
3)-Improved technology, expansion of irrigation coverage, and crop diversification towards
high-value crops are appropriate measures for raising productivity and farmers income.
All these require more public funding
Agrarian distress and farmers income will be addressed much better if States undertake and
sincerely implement long-pending reforms in the agriculture sector with urgency.
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Page-1,10- SC wonders whether privacy could be an absolute right
1)-Right to privacy is not absolute and
2)-Cannot prevent the state from making laws imposing reasonable restrictions on citizens,
the Supreme Court orally observed-
The court said right to privacy is in fact too amorphous() a term.
Page-1,10- Lynchings( ) a plot against development, says Minister of State for
Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
Advisory issued to State governments for legal action
A draft law to deal with mob lynching, Manav Suraksha
Kanoon (MASUKA), produced by the National
Campaign Against Mob Lynching, received support
from a group of politicians
Page-1,10- Bualo meat exports fall 4.35% in April-May

Indias buffalo exports fell 4.35% in the April-May
period of this year to $530 million compared with the
same period last year, according to a written answer
by Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the
Rajya Sabha.
Page-5- Karnataka in no hurry to decide State flag

State faces no legal bar, but does not want to create controversy on what is a grey area
Karnatakas Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister T.B. Jayachandra on Wednesday said the
governments proposal to give legal status to the Kannada flag was a legal grey area and
it was in no hurry to decide on the issue.
The flag was designed in 1966, a year before Ramamurthys death.
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Page-10- IIITs now Institutes of National Importance
Lok Sabha has cleared the Bill
The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed a Bill to declare the Indian Institutes of Information
Technology (IIIT) established under the public-private partnership (PPP) route as Institutes of
National Importance (INIs).
During the discussion before the passage of the Bill,
Minister of Human Resource Development (MoHRD)
Prakash Javadekar said that as PPP did not mean there
would be fee hikes
Page-12- Panel for bigger Indian role in Afghanistan
U.S. Senate committee says Indian assistance could include logistical support, planning & joint
training.
India has a critical role to play in breaking the stalemate in Afghanistan, the U.S.
Senate Committee on Armed Forces has said, calling for enhancing trilateral cooperation
between Afghanistan, India and the U.S.
Page- 13- ONGC gets nod to buy out Centres stake in HPCL
The Cabinet on Wednesday approved the sale of the governments 51.11% stake in oil refiner HPCL
to Indias largest oil producer ONGC for a potential sum in the range of 26,000 crore to
30,000 crore, a top source said.
While ONGC buying HPCL will help the government meet as much as 40% of its target for
raising 72,500 crore in the current fiscal through stake sale
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Last Day- Qs- Ans
1. Project Elephant was launched in 1992 by the Government

of India Ministry of Environment and Forests
2. Asian infrastructure Investment Bank : AIIB
> Headquarter : Beijing, China.
> President : Jin Liqun
3. Lungs of the Earth Amazon rainforest.
> Running through the forest, is the second longest river in
the world and the largest by water flow - Amazon River.

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