The President of the World Bank Ajay Banga, who rejected media speculation on the involvement of the World Bank to deal with Indus Waters, said the role of an institution is strictly like a facilitator.
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“We have no role to play outside the facilitator. There are a lot of speculation in the media about how the World Bank enters and solves the problem, but it’s all a bunk.
After the terrorist attack of Pahalgam, which resulted in the death of 26 people, mostly tourists, the Indian government conducted various measures against Pakistan.
Foreign Minister Vikram Misri on Indus Waters Treaty
Earlier Thursday, Foreign Minister Vikram Misri spoke about Indian decisions concerning Indus Waters. He said, “I want to deal with some questions that have been raised by the related Indus Waters contract, and the misinformation that was raised in this respect. The fact is that there have been fundamental changes in the circumstances in which industrial water ended.
He added: “India has now honored the contract for six decades, even in periods when Pakistan has imposed more wars, and when relations were an opponent. Pakistan was always attacked on the basis of a contract, thus preventing our rights to use our legitimate water under the contract.”
During the Cabinet of the Security Committee (CCS), chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi 23 April, India decided to suspend the 1960 Indus Waters contract until Pakistan trusted and resolutible to give support for cross -border terrorism and closed the integrated Attari control post.
Meanwhile, the World Bank President Ajay Banga met with the capital of Uttar Pradesh in the state capital on Friday. The head of the World Bank is on a all -day visit to Lucknow to attend a number of meetings and events.
“His visit reflects the growing global interest in the rapid development of Uttar Pradesh under the leadership of the main Minister Yogi Adityanath, because the state is constantly moving towards an ambitious goal become an economy of $ 1 trillion,” the state government said in a statement.
There are a lot of speculation in the media about how the World Bank enters and solves the problem, but it’s all bunk beds.
It is scheduled to participate in a number of meetings and programs in Hotel Taj, including a round table discussion with participating parties in the presence of the main secretary Manoj Kumar Singho.
The World Bank recently claimed that extreme poverty (living to less than $ 2.15 per day) dropped from 16.2 % in 2011–12 to 2.3 % in the years 2022-23 and canceled 171 million people in India.
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