False


Download Learnerz IAS app from the Play Store now! Download

$show=search/label/May%202022

 


Indian federalism UPSC NOTE

SHARE:

  New coalition govt & hope On June 4, 2024, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) tripped up short of the majority mark in the Lok Sabha, c...

 New coalition govt & hope

  • On June 4, 2024, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) tripped up short of the majority mark in the Lok Sabha, compelling it to hobble towards power by leaning heavily on its partners in the National Democratic Alliance, all of which are regional parties

  • Return to New Delhi of coalition governance offers another hope: that of revitalising India’s beleaguered federal structure, which has sustained countless death blows over the past decade

  • What we have repeatedly seen since 2014 is an insidious, inexorable effort to curtail the autonomy of our States

  • Despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rhetoric of cooperative federalism, all we have seen is the rise of a coercive and combative brand of federalism that seeks to centralise power at the expense of the States.

  • This Modi-fied brand of federalism has been manifest in seeking to 

    • foist Hindi upon our southern States

  • deploying independent regulatory and investigative agencies (such as the Enforcement Directorate, the Central Bureau of Investigation and Income-Tax agencies) to clamp down on political opponents from regional parties

  • using an obscure provision of the Disaster Management Act to impose a nationwide lockdown without consulting the Chief Ministers who had to implement it; 

  • creating and misusing the ‘Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM CARES) Fund, which limited the flow of cash to State-run Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Funds; 

  • and robbing Jammu and Kashmir of Statehood and abrogating Article 370 in a manner that sets an ominous precedent for all other States.

  • The BJP’s hyper-nationalist desire for uniformity was already evident in its decision in 2017 to change the terms of reference of the Fifteenth Finance Commission to base allocations on the 2011 Census, instead of 1971’s (following the same rationale) This proved pernicious, sending even more tax money from the south to the north than previously

  • The major concern of many federalists is that this could lead — given both demographic realities and the BJP’s own inclinations — to the Hindi-speaking States of the “cow belt” acquiring a two-thirds majority by themselves, in effect disenfranchising the southern States

  • This would give the BJP a permanent stranglehold on our Parliament and would lead to a severe crisis of our democracy as well as our federalism.

Concerns of Southern States

  • For, unlike most federal systems, India’s revenues are going disproportionately to its worst-performing States, those with rampant illiteracy, high rates of fertility and population growth, while the high-performing southern States get short shrift

  • On June 10, 2024, Uttar Pradesh received a whopping ₹25,069 crore of tax devolution, a figure greater than all our five southern States collectively received.

  • The concerns of our southern States about delimitation are not unfounded: Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are likely to together outweigh them all combined

Inter-State Council

  • Can Opposition-ruled States, especially in the south, leverage the BJP’s reduced majority to the benefit of cooperative federalism? 

  • The abolition of the Planning Commission has deprived them of a vital forum. 

  • If that cannot be undone, a good starting point would be extracting the Inter-State Council from the throes of desuetude.

  • Though its rationale had long been outlined in Article 263 of the Constitution, it was convened only in the 1990s on the recommendation of the Sarkaria Commission

  • But, despite having the potential to become a formidable forum of deliberation, the Council has degenerated into a mere appendage of the Ministry of Home Affairs, in whose shadow it scarcely has any authority

  • So the Inter-State Council must be overhauled and revived to serve as an independent arena for consultation, decision-making, dispute resolution, and coordination between States and various governmental departments and levels of government on issues that affect the States

Article 263 

  • The Constitution of India in Article 263, provided that an Inter-State Council (ISC) may be established "if at any time it appears to the President that the public interests would be served by the establishment of a Council".


COMMENTS

Name

Amritsar,1,April 2024,301,Art & Culture,11,August 2023,251,August 2024,400,Courses,7,Daily Current Affairs,51,December 2023,189,Disaster Management,2,Environment and Ecology,292,February 2024,228,Foundation Course,1,Free Class,1,GDP,1,GEMS Club,1,GEMS Plus,1,Geography,302,Govt Schemes,2,GS 2,1,GS1,52,GS2,341,GS3,219,GST,1,History,11,Home,3,IAS Booklist,1,Important News,71,Indian Economy,289,Indian History,21,Indian Polity,330,International Organisation,12,International Relations,233,Invasive Plant,1,January 2024,240,July 2023,281,July 2024,375,June 2022,6,June 2023,268,June 2024,324,March 2024,238,May 2022,17,May 2024,330,Mentorship,2,November 2023,169,November 2024,47,October 2023,203,October 2024,369,Places in News,2,Science & Technology,280,Science and Technology,119,September 2023,205,September 2024,336,UPSC CSE,115,UPSC Tips,4,
ltr
item
Learnerz IAS | Concept oriented UPSC Classes in Malayalam: Indian federalism UPSC NOTE
Indian federalism UPSC NOTE
https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/slidesz/AGV_vUfWkBe4SGFnLRHPW5i5Wo-E1WGb1Ru5y9e9_Kt8qUKDQMVdheGgaCAE1ED7C_5zsKWGL_eTnxQUrIzIyxJqNGaUPZXvCZqryFH7urVadTHT3j_j_m-BcnyQY9moUk8wIeqLVY3PhKg_Pm4ZZyY9GH_e2vAZp0v8YvJ6udZPIDd4Bw=s2048?key=Id2cfAQoY_lmakfS0RjhOA
https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/slidesz/AGV_vUfWkBe4SGFnLRHPW5i5Wo-E1WGb1Ru5y9e9_Kt8qUKDQMVdheGgaCAE1ED7C_5zsKWGL_eTnxQUrIzIyxJqNGaUPZXvCZqryFH7urVadTHT3j_j_m-BcnyQY9moUk8wIeqLVY3PhKg_Pm4ZZyY9GH_e2vAZp0v8YvJ6udZPIDd4Bw=s72-c?key=Id2cfAQoY_lmakfS0RjhOA
Learnerz IAS | Concept oriented UPSC Classes in Malayalam
https://www.learnerz.in/2024/06/indian-federalism-upsc-note.html
https://www.learnerz.in/
https://www.learnerz.in/
https://www.learnerz.in/2024/06/indian-federalism-upsc-note.html
true
4761292069385420868
UTF-8
Loaded All Posts Not found any posts VIEW ALL Readmore Reply Cancel reply Delete By Home PAGES POSTS View All RECOMMENDED FOR YOU LABEL ARCHIVE SEARCH ALL POSTS Not found any post match with your request Back Home Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat January February March April May June July August September October November December Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec just now 1 minute ago $$1$$ minutes ago 1 hour ago $$1$$ hours ago Yesterday $$1$$ days ago $$1$$ weeks ago more than 5 weeks ago Followers Follow THIS PREMIUM CONTENT IS LOCKED STEP 1: Share to a social network STEP 2: Click the link on your social network Copy All Code Select All Code All codes were copied to your clipboard Can not copy the codes / texts, please press [CTRL]+[C] (or CMD+C with Mac) to copy Table of Content