 Welcome to the Hindu News Analysis by Shankar IIS Academy for the date 14th May 2019. Displayed are the list of news articles selected for today's analysis and their page numbers in Chennai, Delhi, Bengaluru and Thiruvananthapuram editions of the newspaper. The link for the handwritten notes and the time stamping of the news articles are provided in the description box and for the benefit of mobile phone viewers, the time stamping of the news articles are also provided in the comment section. Now let us move on to the first article. This article is about Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. This article has appeared in page number 12 in all editions taken up for analysis. This article will be relevant in problems under the area current events of national and international importance in mains under GS2 in global groupings and agreements involving India and affecting India's interest and in effects of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India's interest and then in international institutions and agencies. The article talks about the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization. This Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization has invited India to be an observer in the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The organization's executives told the organization has changed from its traditional way that is the organization has moved from being more confined within CTBT and the IMS that is International Monitoring System. Now it has moving from that to make the data available through this international monitoring system to the people. The organization has stated that India being an observer would be a good start for ratifying the treaty in the future. He also added that being an observer would give India the access to data from International Monitoring System which is necessary for earthquake monitoring and for following the radioisotope dispersion. Now to understand the article completely let us know in detail about this CTBT and also this organization CTBTO. This will be helpful in your prelims preparation and mains answer writing. The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty or CTBT is the treaty banning all nuclear explosions everywhere by everyone. This treaty was negotiated at the conference on disarmament in Geneva and was adopted by United Nations General Assembly on 10 September 1996. It was opened for signature on 24 September 1996. Since then the treaty has reached near universality so far 184 countries have signed the treaty. Note that the treaty has not yet entered into force. This is because in accordance with article 14 of the treaty it will enter into force only after the ratification of all 44 countries that are listed in annex 2 to the treaty. So the treaty's entry into force depends on these 44 specific countries that must sign and ratify the treaty. These are the states that had nuclear facilities at the time the treaty was negotiated and adopted. As of now 36 of these states have ratified the treaty. Eight states still need to ratify it. These eight states are China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea that is North Korea, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Iran, Israel and the United States of America. Note that of these eight countries India, North Korea and Pakistan have not yet signed the treaty. Now in this context let us know what is the difference between signature and ratification. See the signature to a treaty indicates that the country accepts the treaty. It commits not to take any actions that may weaken the purposes of the treaty. A treaty is signed by a senior representative of a country such as the president or the foreign minister. Now coming to ratification, see the ratification symbolizes the official sanction of a treaty. This makes the treaty legally binding for the government of a country. This process involves the treaties adoption by the legislature of a country such as the parliament. It also includes the submission of the instrument of ratification to the treaty's depository which for the case of CTBT is the UN Secretary General. Only then the process of ratification will be officially concluded. The ratification of a treaty may also require the adjustment of a country's legislation reflecting its commitments under the treaty. Now why is this CTBT important? Now this is because CTBT makes it very difficult for countries to develop nuclear bombs for the first time and for countries that already have these nuclear bombs it makes more difficult to make more powerful bombs. It also prevents huge damage caused by radioactivity from nuclear explosions to human beings, animals and plants. In this way the CTBT acts as a last barrier against developing nuclear weapons and the importance is because between 1945 to 1996 there were over 2000 nuclear tests conducted by various countries. The United States did more than 1000 plus nuclear tests it is almost 50 of 2000. The Soviet Union did 700 plus nuclear tests France 200 plus United Kingdom and China did 45 each and three countries have also carried out nuclear explosions after 1996 which include India and Pakistan that did nuclear tests in the year 1998 and then the Democratic People's Republic of Korea which did nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009. Now let us see about the organization that is CTBT O comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty organization. The CTBT O abbreviation stands for preparatory commission for the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty organization. It is an international organization established by the state signatories to the CTBT treaty on 19th November 1996 and it has its headquarters at Vienna in Austria. The objective of the organization is to achieve the aims and purpose of the treaty to ensure the implementation of the treaty's provisions that include provisions for international verification of compliance with the treaty and to provide a forum for consultation and cooperation among the member states. To achieve these objectives the organization promotes the CTBT treaty and prepares for the entry into force of the treaty and the organization also carries out various necessary preparations for the effective implementation of the treaty including the establishment of global verification regime. Now the verification regime of the CTBT is to act as a global alarm that is designed to detect any nuclear explosion conducted on the earth which can be underground underwater or in the atmosphere. The purpose of the verification regime is to monitor countries' compliance with CTBT that bans all nuclear explosions on the planet in underground underwater or in the atmosphere. Now this verification regime consists of certain elements. First the international monitoring system or IMS. It consists of 337 facilities of which 321 are monitoring stations and 16 are laboratories. Built worldwide these facilities monitor the planet for any sign of a nuclear explosion. The IMS uses four complementary verification methods by utilizing the most modern technology available. They are seismic stations, hydro acoustic stations, infrasound stations, radionuclide stations. Here the seismic stations detect shock waves in the earth. The vast majority of these shock waves occur many thousands every year and these are caused by earthquakes. But man-made explosions such as mine explosions are also detected by these stations. They are saying at least use these data by becoming an observer. Sound waves from explosions can travel extremely far underwater. Then the infrasound stations which detect low frequency sound waves in the air with a network of 60 stations. These sound waves are inaudible to the human ear and are emitted by large explosions. Therefore we require such stations. Radionuclide stations detect radioactive debris from atmospheric explosions or debris vented by underground or underwater nuclear explosions. It detects radionuclide particles and noble gas. It provides the smoking gun evidence that an explosion was nuclear. Half of these stations are equipped with radionuclide noble gas detection technology. Only these measurements can give a clear indication as to whether an explosion detected by the other methods was actually nuclear or not. The next element is International Data Center. The IMS is supported by International Data Center which is located at the headquarters of CTBTO in Vienna, Austria. The IDC or the International Data Center processes and analyzes the data registered at various monitoring stations and produces data bulletins that are submitted to the member states for their evaluation and judgment. Note that there are no stations there to detect you know whenever some nuclear explosions can be tested using laboratory simulation testing and also the CTBT monitoring data and technologies can also be used for civilian purposes and scientific research. The data could also help us better understand the oceans, volcanoes, climate change, movement of whales and many other issues. Now let us see India stand on this CTBT or the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. As we already saw India did not sign this treaty. There are several reasons. Say first India says it is not a comprehensive treaty. As it permits the nuclear weapon states to continue their weapons related research and development activity using non-explosive technologies such as lab simulation testing. Therefore India says that the treaty is therefore an ineffective treaty as it do not have clear provision to prohibit lab testing or simulation testing. Note that India is also not a signatory to nuclear non-proliferation treaty otherwise called as NPT. India states this treaty is discriminatory in nature as the treaty says only five countries can have the nuclear weapons and other countries cannot. That is that the treaty is discriminatory because it says five countries has halves of nuclear weapons and others has have nots of nuclear weapons. Now coming to our discussion with respect to CTBT and India stand about that the treaty does not have a binding clear time-bound disarmament. That is the treaty does not have time-bound disarmament that is binding on the member states and nuclear-enabled countries so far had not put forward a schedule for disarming their existing weapons. Therefore CTBT was more focused on non-proliferation rather than disarmament. So India says once the treaty has time-bound disarmament provision for all nuclear weapons of countries such as United States and other countries then India may consider signing the treaty. Then this treaty increased the divide between the halves and the have nots of nuclear weapons. That is those countries already possessing this nuclear technology were at an advantage and could withdraw from the treaty without any fear of repercussions. And finally article 14 of the treaty which is about the entry into force class. Now this class requires 44 nuclear-enabled states including India to ratify the treaty so that it can come into force. And India is saying let the permanent members of United Nations Security Council ratify the convention and show the commitment then India may sign the treaty. With this we come to the end of discussion of this news article. The displayed practice question will be discussed in the last session. Now let us take up the analysis of next news article. Now the next article is about Indian rhinoceros. This article appears on page 7 in all editions of the newspaper. This article will be relevant in problems preparation under current events of national importance, general issues on environmental ecology, biodiversity and remains under GS paper 3 in conservation. The news article talks about the environment ministry's project initiative to create DNA profiles for all rhinos in the country. By 2021 this DNA sequencing of Indian rhino would make it to be the first wild animal species in India to have all its members DNA sequenced. This project is supported by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature India that is WWF India and the Center-funded Wildlife Institute of India. This exercise will be useful in curbing poaching and gathering evidence in wildlife crimes involving rhinos. In this context let us know some facts about Indian rhinoceros in the examination point of view. See the Indian rhinoceros is also called as great one-horned rhino. It is a herbivorous mammal. It is commonly found in Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan and India. In India it is widely seen in the state of Assam. They live in tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas and shrublands. Indian rhinoceros can run at speeds of up to 40 kilometer per hour for short periods of time and is also an excellent swimmer. It has excellent senses of hearing and smell but relatively poor eyesight. Indian rhinos are brownish green color and are hairless. They have knobby or bulged skin that appears to be armor plated. As their scientific name rhinoceros unicornus suggests Indian rhinos have only one horn. See the meaning of uni means one unicorn one horn. Therefore their scientific name rhinoceros unicornus means Indian rhinos have only one horn. It is the largest of the Asian rhinos. See a male Indian rhino weigh approximately 2200 kilogram and they range in height from 170 to 186 centimeter that is around 6 feet and are 368 to 380 centimeter long roughly 12 feet. Their horn can grow to around 18 inches or to around 45 centimeters. Now for the conservation of these Indian rhinos Indian and Nepalese governments have taken major steps toward Indian rhinoceros conservation with the help of World Wildlife Fund. See in this map it mentions the distribution of Indian rhinoceros in various national parks and forest reserves in India. In this the Khajiranga National Park, Manas National Park in Assam, Pobittora Resau Forest in Assam they have the highest Indian rhino density in the world. Whereas Orang National Park of Assam, Lakova Resau Forest of Assam have a very small population. Poaching for the illegal trade in rhino horn remains a biggest threat to the great one on rhino. The horn is valued in North Africa and in Middle East as an ornamental dagger handle. There is no scientific proof of its medical value but the horn is used in traditional Asian medicines primarily for the treatment of a variety of ailments including epilepsy, fevers, cancer. Extensive illegal trade persists throughout Asia despite protection and bans on international trade of this rhino horn. The Indian rhinoceros is protected under schedule 1 of Wildlife Protection Act of 1972. It has also been listed as under the vulnerable category in IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and see it is also mentioned in Appendix 1 of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. Here Appendix 1 lists the species that are most endangered among the sites listed animals and plants. They are threatened with extinction. These animals that are listed in Appendix 1 are threatened with extinction and sites convention prohibits international trade in specimens of these species except when the purpose of the import is not commercial. For instance for example for scientific research that means for scientific research it is allowed for any other commercial purposes the purpose of import is not allowed. So in these exceptional cases trade may take place provided it is authorized by granting of both an import permit and an export permit. The displayed prelims question will be discussed in the last part. Now let us move on to next news article. This news article discusses about rutale tree tariffs imposed by China on US imports. We can find this article in page 1 and almost all the news editions. The contents of this analysis will be relevant in your prelims preparation under current events of international importance and it remains under bilateral regional global groupings to involve India and or affect India's interest and also under effect of policies and politics of developed countries and developing countries on India's interest Indian diaspora. US recently announced more tariff hikes on Chinese goods worth 200 billion US dollars. US announced these tariff hikes last week after the latest round of US China trade negotiations which ended without a favorable deal for both the sides. With this US is planning to target almost all Chinese imports. US president has also ordered a start of a process to impose new duties another 300 billion US dollars worth Chinese items. To retaliate this China has said on 13th May that is on Monday that it would raise tariffs on 60 billion dollars worth US goods from June 1. China has announced this even after the message from US president who stated not to retaliate or China or the situation will get only worse. China has clearly sent the message that China will never surrender to external pressure. Now if you see now China seem to have given time to United States to find a resolution by setting the starting date for retaliatory tariff on June 1. The new rates will target a number of American imports with tariffs ranging from 5% to 25%. China has significantly reduced its imports from United States. If you see also in addition to tariff hikes China could use other measures to hit back at the United States. For example China may stop purchasing US agricultural products and energy. It may also reduce orders of importing Boeing passenger aircraft. There is a possibility that China will restrict its trade and services with United States of America. Also many Chinese scholars are discussing the possibility of dumping US stressories and how to do it specifically. Here US stressories refer to US currencies and bonds. Both United States and China have indicated that talks will continue. These may happen either in Chinese capital or in next month on the sidelines of G20 summit to resolve their differences on trade. But as of now no new talks are scheduled. If you see in September 2018 the US imposed 10% tariffs on 200 billion US dollars worth Chinese imports. Immediately China imposed retaliatory tariffs on 5000 categories of US products with tariffs ranging from 5% to 10%. So the present event is the result of ongoing trade war between United States and China. If you see United States has a trade deficit with China now in order to have a protectionist policy USA is imposing huge tariffs on Chinese imports so that US economy will pick up thereby reducing the necessity of imports from China. There is one more news article in page 13 which is titled as stocks tumble in US-China trade spat. The US stock markets fell more than 2% on Monday after China announced retaliatory tariffs on US goods. See fearing the retaliatory tariffs of China investors in US stock markets have sold off their shares in major technology companies who are indulged in business activity in China including Apple as well as chip makers manufacturers and retailers. If you see all these companies get huge revenue from their businesses in China. Now know that any change in US stock markets will directly impact the stock markets of Asia as well. This also includes Indian stock markets because of complexity associated with the processes. Indian stock markets fell around 1% on Monday. Indian rupee also came under pressure on Monday. Two factors made the rupee depreciate on Monday. See one is foreign fund outflows and next is the renewed concern of rising crude oil prices. The author may be saying the word renewed concern because of the inability for India to purchase crude oil from Iran due to US sanctions on Iran and the increase in oil prices. Foreign fund outflows refers to the investments in our country by foreign investors that are being pulled out of Indian stock markets. This will lead to depreciation in our currency the rupee. Let us now move on to next news article. This editorial article appears on page number eight in all the editions taken up for analysis. The article is in news as the pricing details of the Rafale deal were removed from the recent audit report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. This article is relevant in prelim syllabus under current events of national importance and in Indian polity and governance and in mains under significant provisions in Indian constitution functions and responsibilities of the union powers and privileges of parliament functioning of the executive and the judiciary functions and responsibilities of various constitutional bodies. The article talks about the role of Comptroller and Auditor General of India. Note that CAG is a constitutional body meaning that it is established by the constitution of India and it is the supreme audit institution of India. According to article 148 of constitution of India a Comptroller and Auditor General is appointed by the president of India by warrant under his hand and seal. He shall only be removed from office in manner and grounds as a judge of a supreme court. CAG is also not eligible for further office either under the government of India or under the state government. According to article 151 the audit reports of CAG relating to the accounts of the union shall be submitted to the president who shall cost them to be laid before each house of parliament and the audit reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India relating to the accounts of a state shall be submitted to the governor of the state who shall cost them to laid before the legislature of the particular state. The author in this article talks about the importance of pricing in the procurement decision making process. See the points discussed here will be in PDF just to get the flow of the discussion and may not be highly relevant for preparation purposes. The author says that pricing is an integral part of a procurement decision making and to arrive at a purchase decision several conditions have to be evaluated to arrive at a particular purchase decision such as you know how best a product such as an aircraft should be procured at a time how many are to be purchased and at what price and under what conditions terms you know how many installments after service conditions discounts commissions and other conditions these have to be evaluated and based on this evaluation strategic competitive advantage of a particular product here aircraft must be decided and thus the price integrity and competitiveness are at the heart of procurement decision. Note that the product author is referring to are the aircrafts that are part of the Rafale deal and CAGS audit has to pinpoint inaccuracies non-compliance of procurement procedures and errors in terms and conditions and errors in pricing. Now let us go into the heart of the discussion see CAG which went into the audit of capital acquisition in the Indian Air Force has resorted to redacted pricing. The meaning of redacted is removing sensitive information from your document prior to publication. Now redacted pricing refers to removing the sensitive details of pricing about the aircrafts from the audit report of comptroller and auditor general. The author says since the CAG has removed the information of pricing details which is central to a procurement decision the CAG has suppressed the vital information. The reason given by CAG is that it was insisted by the government's ministry about security concerns and therefore it has resorted to this redacted pricing and this was CAG's acknowledged move of removing pricing details that has no precedence before states the author as stated by the comptroller and auditor general in the preface of the audit report. Even parliament could not get the pricing details of Rafale deal as the details were removed from the CAG's audit report. Note that this is important we know that the audit report of CAG is laid in each house of the parliament as caused by the president under article 151 of our constitution. This report when laid into parliament means that this helps the people's representatives in enforcing legislative oversight or legislative supervision and public accountability over the actions of the executive. When the report given by CAG do not have pricing details how will the legislatures who are the elected representatives of people will have the legislative oversight over the actions of the executive with respect to the Rafale deal is what the author is asking. Author says that the audit report should have clearly taken the issues in the deal such as reduction in original requirement of 126 medium multi-role combat aircrafts to 36 Rafale fighter jets this reduction happened in June 2015 and then about leaving the Hindustan aeronautics limited which is a government owned defense manufacturing company in the process because originally it was agreed that of the 126 combat aircrafts 18 aircrafts will be purchased by India in flyaway condition and 108 aircrafts are to be manufactured by Hindustan aeronautics limited this was later reported that reliance group was decided to replace the government owned defense manufacturing company by the government of India and the government of France also the observations made by the Indian negotiating team and the reported role of prime minister's office in the negotiations and the cost escalation due to inclusion of bank and performance guarantee coming to the final key points or the suggestions the author states that the pricing decisions in a deal must be subjected to detailed and thorough analysis by comptroller and auditor general of India without resorting to redacted pricing and the audit reports of supreme audit institutions nowhere in the world use the concept of redacted pricing states the author here the author cites the national audit office of united kingdom and the government accountability office which is the supreme audit institution of united states Indian supreme audit institution that is the comptroller and auditor general should also adopt such a practice states the author and with respect to the question does the constitutional mandate provide redacted pricing to be included in CAG's audit reports the author states that the supreme court shall examine this matter with respect to the current controversy CAG should take credible pool of resources to carry out detailed analysis to pinpoint inaccuracies if it lacks the expertise in some areas with this we have come to the end of the analysis of this editorial article the displayed practice main question will be discussed in the last session the practice and revision session now let us take up the analysis to the next article the next article is about puram festival in thirushur this article appears on page six in chennai and bungalow edition and five in delhi edition and page two in thiruvananthapuram edition this article will be relevant in prelims under current events of national importance and the article can be linked to indian culture under gs paper one the news article talks about the most famous thirushur puram festival which is being celebrated in the state of kerala the article also talks about violation of animal rights of elephants that are being used in this festival now let us see some important facts about this thirushur puram thirushur puram is often called as the festival of festivals in kerala and also puram of purams it is held in the northern district of kerala named thirushur the word puram literally means group or meeting people also say the name puram also comes from the name of an astrological star thirushur puram is considered to be the mother of all purams this spectacular event was started by shaktan tamburan the erstwhile ruler of kochi in the 18th century and this puram is a festival unique in its pageantry magnitude and participation pageantry means parade with celebration the puram is also commonly known as drum oriented festival as well the tradition is that every year the gods and goddesses residing at temples in neighboring regions are brought together for a day of celebration the celebrations take place at the famous vadakam nath temple the temple which is dedicated to lord shiva or in other words vadakam nath is lord shiva the puram festival mainly happens between two groups representing the geographic divisions of paramakavu and thiruvambadi so the coming together is led by presiding deities of temples in these geographic divisions the groups will compete in their respective presentations with richly comparisoned elephants see when we say comparisoned elephants it means that the elephants are adorned by decorative coverings this happens along with traditional orchestra called panjavadhyam another competition with respect to puram is the swift and rhythmic changing of brightly colored and sequined parasols or umbrella called kudamatam and the dazzling fireworks in the early morning hours see kudamatam is the swift and rhythmic changing of these sequined parasols or the sequined umbrellas and that is a another type of competition that happened in these presentations by these different groups it is a 36 hour non-stop festival and is celebrated in the malayalam month of medamasam which is usually from mid april to mid may it's a grand assembly of idols of gods and goddesses from around 10 temples in and around thirushu district a heavily weighing processional image of the deity called as thidambu is placed at the base of a golden shield and this golden shield with the processional image of the deity will be mounted over the top of the tallest male elephant or tusker and other elephants will be made to stand on both sides of this tallest tusker our tusker is an elephant with well-developed tusks the minimum number of elephants will be three in the bigger festivals it can be as many as 21 or more the tallest elephant will usually stand in the middle another high point is the ilanjitramelam which is an orchestra held in friend of ilanjitri which is also known as bakula tree or bullet wood tree around 250 artists participate in this traditional orchestra led by chenda artist and the spirit is energized by thousands of spectators who wave their hands in accordance to the rhythm generated by the chenda kurumkulal kumbu and elathalam which are the traditional instruments of kerala now the use of elephants in this festival has triggered several allegations from the animal rights activists they have alleged that there was a violation of rules and a partially blind elephant was tortured now it is illegal to use a partially blind elephant for such festivals but the thirushu district administration gave the permission for parading the elephant in the puram festival for just one hour but the activists are alleging that the animal was used for the ceremony more than the permitted time and the animal was allowed to leave the place only after overall time of around two hours so this is a violation of kerala captive elephants management and maintenance rules additionally the state forest department has also banned any type of transportation of elephants from 10 a.m to evening 4 p.m because of the hot climate one should note that animals has to stand along with heavily weighing processional image for the 36 hours continuously and several methods of controlling the animal during this 34 hours constitute animal rights violations say the animal rights activists the incessantly or non-stopping loud and booming noise or sound also giving a great sense of trouble to these elephants and all these may irritate the elephants and they may become rogue and previously deaths were reported because of tuskers becoming rogue during these festivals the displayed practice prelim question will be discussed in the next session question one is with reference to ctbt that is comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty they have given two statements and are asking which of the asking to select the correct answer now the first statement says that the objective of comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy now see the first statement is incorrect because this is the objective of nuclear non-proliferation treaty whereas the objective of comprehensive test ban treaty is banning all nuclear explosions everywhere by everyone so the best possible solution for the first statement is it is incorrect now the second statement india is a signatory but did not ratify the treaty now again this statement is also wrong india haven't yet signed the treaty and also did not ratify so the second statement is also wrong so the answer for this question is option d neither one nor two the second question is with reference to indian rhinoceros ministry of environment and forest has recently announced the dna profiling of all the indian rhinos in the country consider the following statements they have given three statements and are asking which of the statements are correct now we can attempt this question based on knowledge approach and also based on elimination technique see the first statement it is found only in the northeastern region of india we know it is wrong so we can directly eliminate option a now the second statement it is protected under schedule two of wildlife protection act of 1972 we know it is protected under some schedule of wildlife protection act but it is certainly not schedule two it is schedule one and one of the difference with schedule one and schedule two is see the animals that are listed in schedule one may not be you know given an order to kill by chief wildlife warden even if they create some damage to properties such as standing crops if you see the animals listed in schedule two three or four for these animals the chief wildlife warden may issue an order to kill these animals if they cause damage even to property but the schedule one animals even if they cause some damage to property they cannot be killed so the rhinos indian rhinos are protected under schedule one of wildlife protection act of 1972 so that means the given statement statement two is incorrect see now see three options have the statement number two so we can easily eliminate option a option b option c so the correct answer for this question is option d three only which states the dna profiling of rhino will make it the first wild animal species in india to have all its members dna sequenced right and therefore this answer for this question is option d three only and you can use this elimination technique you know when you are not sure about all the statements elimination of options helps a lot when you are not sure about the given statements and therefore you may use this elimination technique while answering the questions because we need not always know all the facts relating to a particular topic given as statements in our questions elimination of options helps a lot when you you know we are not sure about all this given statements now let us move on to next question the pooram festival recently seen in news is celebrated in which of the following state you know it's a pretty direct question and the correct answer is option d the state of kerala now we have a practice question in mains in gs paper two the instance of comptroller and auditor general of indias the instance of comptroller and auditor general resort to redacted pricing has come under a public debate should there be a provision of redacted pricing to be used by the supreme audit institution of india discuss here state that why it has come under a public debate such as the reason such as it leads to lack of legislative oversight by the parliament and you know ensuring accountability becomes difficult ensuring accountability on the part of executive becomes difficult for parliament when when there when the contents are removed that is what exactly what is redacted pricing and thus escaping from the mandate of scrutiny you may also take other side you know that such issues are of less less importance considering security concerns you shall say whether there shall be such an option for cag to resort to redacted pricing compare with the supreme audit institutions of united kingdom and usa as stated in the article and also you may also include other countries substantiate why you say so you know whether there should be a provision or should not be a provision for whichever side you say you take substantiate discuss using the points based on today's editorial analysis with this we come to the end of today's the hindu news analysis if you like the video press the like button share comment and also subscribe to shankaray's academy youtube channel to get notified about the daily news analysis