RISE Initiative | Operation Pawan

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RISE Initiative

Environment

Context

  • IIT Kharagpur launched Impact RISE (Research, Innovation, Skilling, and Entrepreneurship)

RISE Initiative 

    • Mandate – It focuses on sustainable tech and management practices for societal transformation.
  • Four pillars – research, innovation, skilling, and entrepreneurship.
  • Significance- It will involve research aligned with sustainable development goals and India’s climate and development priorities.

Operation Pawan

Defence

Context

  • The Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), General Upendra Dwivedi, has paid homage to soldiers who laid down their lives during Operation Pawan (1987 – 1990) in Sri Lanka.

Operation Pawan

  • It was launched by the Rajiv Gandhi government in 1987 after the signing of the Indo–Sri Lanka Accord.
  • India deployed the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) to Sri Lanka during the country’s civil war between the minority Tamil population, and the Sinhalese-majority government.

India was deeply concerned due to:

  • Ethnic and cultural ties with Tamil Nadu
  • Escalating violence
  • Rising refugee inflow into India

Do you know?

  • The Sri Lankan civil war ended on May 18, 2009 with the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
  • While India had not formally commemorated Operation Pawan for decades, Sri Lanka maintains an IPKF memorial in Colombo.
  • Now, this has changed with the Indian Army officially recognising the sacrifices made by troops during the operation.

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