Indus Waters Treaty
▪ Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar stated that they will approach international organizations to receive water from India under the Indus Waters Treaty.
▪ Indus Waters Treaty was signed on September 19, 1960, between India and Pakistan and was
brokered by the World Bank.
▪ According to the agreement,
✓ India has control over the eastern rivers – Ravi, Beas and Sutlej
✓ Pakistan gets the water from the western rivers – Indus, Jhelum and Chenab.
National Sample Survey (NSS)
▪ The National Sample Survey (NSS) is in the news due to the celebration of 75 years of its
establishment during the 19th National Statistics Day.
▪ The National Sample Survey (NSS) is a nation-wide, large-scale socio-economic data collection program conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI).
▪ It serves as the principal data source for policy planning, development programs, and research in India.
▪ The NSS was launched in 1950, inspired by the vision of Prof. P.C. Mahalanobis, to provide reliable, timely, and comparable socio-economic statistics through sample surveys.
