Major General (Retd.) Ajay Kumar Chaturvedi, AVSM, VSM

Contributions

Relevance of Water in India’s Economic Growth: Need for a Diplomatic Outreach

July 19, 2021 Major General (Retd.) Ajay Kumar Chaturvedi, AVSM, VSM

Introduction Water is essential for the life in more than one ways. Besides the drinking purpose its centrality for the agriculture, in an agrarian society, is highly established. In this connection, it is important to note that water, pa...

Tags: Neighbourhood Studies, Economic Studies, Article, River Water Management, India’s water concerns, multi-national rivers, sharing water resources

Infrastructure Development as a Force Multiplier

November 04, 2020 Major General (Retd.) Ajay Kumar Chaturvedi, AVSM, VSM

Introduction India and China share border of 4056 Km in length (as per Ministry of Home Affairs). Compromised by China’s military aggression in 1962, the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh’s Sub Sector North (SSN) delineates that p...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence, Article, Ladakh, Defence infrastructure, Border Area Road construction, Road- rail-air connectivity

Sino- Iran Proposed Accord: China’s Expansionism Continues

August 19, 2020 Major General (Retd.) Ajay Kumar Chaturvedi, AVSM, VSM

Introduction Sometime back there was a news item that Iran has decided to undertake construction of the Chabahar- Zahedan Railway Line on its own. The reason given was that India who was earlier building that Railway line was going slow on ...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Climate Change, Article, India, China, PLA Navy, JCPOA, USA, Chabahar, IRGC, Zahedan, railway line, Khomeini

Impact of Attack on Saudi Aramco Facilities on India

September 25, 2019 Major General (Retd.) Ajay Kumar Chaturvedi, AVSM, VSM

The Scenario On 14 September 2019, an attack by drones was launched on the Saudi Aramco oil pro-cessing facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais in Eastern Saudi Arabia. The Houthi movement in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack. The atta...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Energy Security, Article, Conflict in Middle East, Saudi oil facilities attacked, petroleum prices

Visit of Indian Prime Minister to Vladivostok

September 17, 2019 Major General (Retd.) Ajay Kumar Chaturvedi, AVSM, VSM

Indian Prime Minister, Sri Narendra Modi, visited Vladivostok in Far East of Russia for two days; 04-05 Sep 2019. The PM had two main agenda points: First, to attend 20th Summit Level talk with the Russian President, Mr. Vladimir Putin; and second, ...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, PM’s Vladivostok agreements, New vistas of India-Russia cooperation

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VIF Papers

Indus Water Treaty: An Appraisal

December 06, 2018 Major General (Retd.) Ajay Kumar Chaturvedi, AVSM, VSM

… a Task Force to review the IWT is a good move and hopefully it will help India in creating adequate water management infrastructure in a time bound manner so that she is able to utilise all the waters that she is entitled to harness. The unendin...

Tags: Governance and Political Studies, Indus Water Treaty, River-water management

Nuclear Energy in India’s Energy Security Matrix: An Appraisal

March 14, 2014 Major General (Retd.) Ajay Kumar Chaturvedi, AVSM, VSM

Abstract Energy is essential for the economic growth of a nation. India, which is in the lower half of the countries as far as the energy consumption per capita is concerned, needs to leap frog from its present position to upper half, comme...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Energy Security, Nuclear Energy in India

VIF Briefs

River Water Pollution - A New Threat to India: A Case Study of River Ganga

November 25, 2019 Major General (Retd.) Ajay Kumar Chaturvedi, AVSM, VSM

… pollution of water bodies is not only a function of higher human load but also on account of technology dependence and lack of awareness amongst the masses about the ill effects of pollution … but the most important factor is the indifference ...

Tags: Governance and Political Studies, River Water Pollution, River Ganga, Quality of Water, Ganga Action Plan, Namami Gange

Accession of Jammu and Kashmir and Constitutional Provisions: A Historical Recount

September 16, 2019 Major General (Retd.) Ajay Kumar Chaturvedi, AVSM, VSM

… Pakistan is a self-appointed Stake Holder in Kashmir Dispute … has always displayed double standards while dealing with J&K … with this new development she has started becoming fearful about its hold on POJK and Gilgit-Baltistan. No wonder Pa...

Tags: Jammu & Kashmir, National Security and Strategic Studies, Jammu and Kashmir, India’s constitutional amendment, History of Kashmir politics, Kashmir’s integration