new delhi a world bank document says external affairs minister sm krishna has stated that india will not pose any arunachal pradeshspecific project to the bank and that the chinese executive director at the bank is pressing for the operationalisation of this statement verbally indias executive director pulok chatterjee has conveyed to the bank that the government of india would not pose any arunachal pradeshspecific project to the bank for financing i also took the liberty to say that the names of the individual states would not be mentioned anywhere in the project document and that the government of india would not be posing any arunachal pradeshspecific projects to the world bank mr chatterjee wrote in a communication to finance secretary ashok chawla dated february 12 this amounts to conceding chinas persistent claims of arunachal pradesh being a disputed territory and runs contrary to the stated opinion that the state is an integral part of india it may be recalled that it was only eight months ago that the indian government had sharply attacked beijing for criticising prime minister manmohan singhs visit to arunachal pradesh and his reference to the state as our land of the rising sun during the verbal skirmishes with beijing at the juncture india had said china has no business to interfere in the affairs of a territory that is an integral part of india the shift appears all the more strange as it was only recently that india refused an adb loan for an arunachal project after china raised disputed territory objections india had then said all projects in sensitive areas will be funded by our own resources what is more surprising is that the oblique acceptance of the beijing line on arunachal at the world bank meeting on february 12 attended by mr chatterjee edchina shaolin yang and world bank general counsel legal and vicepresident south asia division came about without the union cabinets consent at the meeting chinas ed insisted on the operationalisation of mr krishnas statement even as the world bank general counsel and vicepresident clarified that the banks disclaimer clause invoked whenever a national or statelevel project is to be implemented in an area over which two member countries are in dispute would not be triggered for the projects being presently funded by world bank mr chatterjee on his own offered not to name individual states in the project document or seek world bank assistance for projects to be implemented in arunachal in his letter to mr chawla soon after the meeting mr chatterjee referred to the chinese objections to national projects such as ssa and vocational training and shared some of the points he had made during the deliberations he revealed that these were national projects under implementation for many years and that the world bank assistance was by way of budgetary support both these projects received world bank assistance earlier without the disclaimer clause being triggered and without any objection from china the present assistance being considered was more