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Symbiotic Federalism

Vol. 55, Issue No. 39, 26 Sep, 2020

The federal government should be the manifestation of the principle of fairness towards the states.

Policy Complementarities in Achieving Universal Immunisation Coverage in India

Vol. 55, Issue No. 38, 19 Sep, 2020
Dweepobotee Brahma, Debasri Mukherjee

The role of two policy pillars in achieving immunisation coverage of essential vaccines in India is examined by assessing the funds disbursed by the centre to the state governments under the Universal Immunisation Programme and the available physical health infrastructure in the states. It is found that funds by themselves are ineffective in improving vaccination coverage but are effective in conjunction with the available infrastructure. This finding has important implications for achieving full immunisation coverage, which stems from the sharing of responsibilities between the central and state governments under India’s federalised system of government.

COVID-19 and Dwindling Indian Federalism

Vol. 55, Issue No. 26-27, 27 Jun, 2020
Pankhuri Agrawal

One of the many effects of COVID-19 pandemic disaster is also visible on legislative, executive and financial federalism in India. The constitutional mandate for functioning of centre on behalf of states has been missed and recourse to disaster has been taken to undertake unified but unconsented measures.

How Can the Judiciary’s Ability to Dispense Justice Be Improved?

Vol. 54, Issue No. 44, 09 Nov, 2019
India has a large pendency of court cases, and this has affected the judiciary’s ability to provide justice. While the creation of an All India Judiciary Services was seen as a solution to this and other problems since its introduction in 1958, the idea has received a mixed response. A batch of orders by the Supreme Court in 2019 alters recruitment rules. The author argues that these changes will help fill vacancies without compromising on the quality of judges.

Are Linguistic Nationalisms Killing South Indian Federalism?

Vol. 53, Issue No. 46, 24 Nov, 2018
Linguistic nationalism has, for long, been considered a measure to check Hindi domination in the Indian Union. This paper seeks to explore how, paradoxically, linguistic nationalism can often fuel antagonisms between groups that have negotiated space and politics through multiple cultural registers. Using the case of a recent Kannada film, Sarkari Hi Pra Shaale Kasaragodu , the paper illustrates how multilingualism and pre-existing federalisms could be under threat from contesting chauvinisms.

NEET Could Undo Tamil Nadu's Achievements in Public Health

Vol. 52, Issue No. 38, 23 Sep, 2017
Tamil Nadu has performed extremely well in most health indicators because creative technical intervention in the state has been coupled with social mobilisation. The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test ( NEET) has the potential to reverse all past achievements—the innovative reservation policies and the incentive structure which ensured a seamless flow of health personnel in rural areas.

Rethinking India’s Federalism

Vol. 52, Issue No. 29, 22 Jul, 2017
Alok Prasanna Kumar

Addressing the problems in local body governance requires a reimagining of federalism in India and moving away from the centre–state framework. Beholden to partisan politics and the state’s unwillingness to part with powers, local bodies have not been able to fulfil the potential envisaged for them in the 73rd and 74th amendments to the Constitution. The answer lies in locating their powers and functions in the Constitution itself.

Karnataka's Changing Fiscal Landscape

Vol. 51, Issue No. 33, 13 Aug, 2016
Pranay Kotasthane, Varun K Ramachandra

Analysing the second Karnataka budget since the Fourteenth Finance Commission award, it is noted that, as assured, more fiscal space is made available to the state government. With greater untied funds, the state has budgeted for higher capital expenditure in some key areas--urban development, police, and tribal welfare--even as it failed to build capacity for power generation, and has introduced too many schemes with too little funds allocated to each.

Federalism in a Globalising World

Vol. 38, Issue No. 36, 06 Sep, 2003
AB

Federalism is indeed in ferment. Pressures have been generated for decentralisation of powers and functions of governments from national to lower levels paving the way for competitive federalism on the one hand and on the other for inter-governmental cooperation to regulate or resolve the conflicts and externalities that such competition creates. How to get India's federalism to respond positively and adapt to the needs of a globalising world was the theme of a seminar in Delhi last month. A report.

State HDRs

Vol. 37, Issue No. 46, 16 Nov, 2002
Renuka Viswanathan

Enforcing the Constitution's Common Market Mandate

Vol. 37, Issue No. 24, 15 Jun, 2002
Amaresh Bagchi

Considering the adverse implications for centre-state relations and the states' autonomy of the growing practice of attaching conditions to central grants to persuade states to implement fiscal and other economic policy reforms - quite apart from whether the conditions are likely to be effective at all - serious thought needs to be given to superior alternatives to enable the central government to discharge its constitutional responsibility to preserve the nationwide common market. And since the centre itself is quite often a party to measures that constrain free trade, it is all the more necessary to entrust the task of enforcing the Constitution's common market mandate to an independent authority such as that contemplated in Article 307.

Political Lobbying and Fiscal Federalism

Vol. 37, Issue No. 08, 23 Feb, 2002
Rongili Biswas, Sugata Marjit

In a quasi-federal democracy like India, political representatives often fight to attract central disbursements towards their own states. Among central disbursements, two most important ones are letters of intent and industrial licences. Much of the disparities in the economic growth of various states is attributable to variations in the development of industries and the latter, in turn, are largely contingent on the nature of the industrial policies that were followed. In this paper the authors argue that the industrial policies pursued in the post-independence era resulted in a distorted pattern of disbursement of letters of intent and industrial licences. This remains true even after account is taken of the 'demand'-generated aspect of the disbursements. It is also shown how the presence of the same distortion in the disbursements in the so-called backward regions vitiates the very objective of balanced regional development.

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