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CLAT 2021 21 Year Experienced Team

Changes be brought by implementation article 244 A:
f Unified Legislature and executive for all tribal areas: The demand will provide for creation of a separate
legislature and council of ministers.

f This will provide a unified legislature having more powers and subjects to make and implement laws.
f Law and Order: It will provide control of laws and order over tribal areas to the proposed autonomous
state which is currently controlled by state legislature.
f Limits the power of governor: The creation of new autonomous states will also limit the powers of
governor being exercised under Sixth Schedule of the constitution. Limitations of the demand of an
autonomous state:
f Centralization of power: Currently, the areas under Sixth Schedules are governed by respective district
councils.
f These district councils have different compositions as these comprise of different tribal population.
f Unification into singe autonomous legislature will centralize legislative and executive powers enjoyed by
these councils.

f Surge in insurgency: Different insurgent groups bear tribal identities but are controlled by central
forces and state police having different identities.
f Passing law and order into hands of different tribes will promote separatist tendencies.
Way Forward:

f Although creation of ‘Autonomous State within a state’ will provide for ‘Self –Rule’ for tribal districts by
providing more autonomy but at the same time it can alienate them from mainstream political spectrum.

f Further, passing them more powers and limiting the role of governor will lead to increase in their faith in
democratic credentials of the nation.

Iconic Chenab Bridge

Indian Railways completed the arch closure of the iconic Chenab Bridge in Jammu & Kashmir.

About:
f The construction of the arch of the world's highest railway bridge i.e. Chenab bridge that soars 359
metres above the bed of the Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir has been completed recently.
f The Northern Railways zone of Indian Railways termed the achievement a milestone.
The Chenab Bridge:

f Length: Indian Railways is constructing the iconic Arch Bridge of 1.3 KM length on River Chenab as a part
of the USBRL project to connect the Kashmir valley to the rest of the nation.

f Cost: It is being constructed at a cost of Rs. 1,486 crore as part of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla
Railway Link (USBRL) project.
Height: This is the highest Railway Bridge in the world being 359 m above the river bed level.
f Cable cranes: For the first time, erection of the members of the arch by overhead cable cranes was done
on the Indian Railways network.
f Fabrication: Bridge construction involved the fabrication of 28,660 million tonnes steel, 10 lakh cum
earthwork, 66,000 cum concrete as well as 26 kilometres motorable roads.

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