Notes

##@ Loktak Inland Waterways Project in Manipur 30 November 2019
* cost- 25.58 crores
* location- Loktak Lake is located in Moirang, Manipur
* area- The lake is spread over an area of 980 sq km.
* lake is spread over an area of 980 sq km.
* Kibul Lamjao National Park is also located in this lake.

###Inland Waterways in India
• There is an extensive waterway network exist in India in the form of rivers, canals, backwaters and creeks. The total navigable length is about 14,500 km.
• Inland waterways in India include - the backwaters of Kerala, the Brahmaputra River, Gangetic-Bhagirathi-Hooghly Rivers, and Barak River, rivers located in Goa, the inland waters in Mumbai and the Godavari-Krishna Rivers.
• Inland waterways are recognized as fuel-efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly transportation, it is another matter that it has the least investment compared to roads and railways.
• The inland waterways system is quite backward compared to other means of transportation, so the central government has planned to develop a policy for integrated development of inland waterways.



##@ srilanakan president - Gotabaya Rajapaksa
prime minister -Mahinda Rajapaksa ( former president of srilanka)
State Minister of Defence-Chamal Rajapaksa ( former speaker under Mahinda Rajapaksa’s presidency)
( three brothers on the topmost post of srilanka)




##@ Spike LR missile
* The Indian Army has successfully test-fired two Spike LR (long-range) anti-tank missiles from an Infantry School at Mhow, in Madhya Pradesh.

## What is Spike missile?
* Spike is a fourth-generation anti-tank guided missile, which is developed and designed by Israel’s Rafael
Advanced Defense Systems. The missile is man-portable and has its own vehicle-launch and helicopter-
launched variants.

###Spike LR(Long range): Key Features
• The advanced Spike LR missile does not only have the capability to fire and forget but also the ability to fire, observe and update.

• The missile would help provide substantial flexibility to the shooter to pinpoint the exact impact point.

• The missile also has the ability to switch to a different target mid-flight, if the shooter decides to do so. It also offers the shooter, the option to fire from either low or high trajectory.

• The Spike LR has an inbuilt seeker that gives the shooter the flexibility to use any of the two modes: Day (CCD) and Night (IIR). The dual seeker increases the missile's reliability.

• The missile was already assessed to be more than 90 percent reliable during a field evaluation by the Indian Army in 2011.

• This was the first practice firing of the missile by the soldiers from the Indian Army since induction and training and all missiles successfully engaged with the target despite the difficulty level.