Financial package for Seemandhra triggers renewed demands for ‘special status’ by Bihar, Odisha
The months before an election, and the weeks before the Election Commission's poll code kicks in, is sop season. And one of the biggest sops, in context of the controversial splitting of Andhra Pradesh into Telangana and Seemandhra, is the socalled special category status.
As a way to pacify those heavily against the splitting of Andhra and as a last-ditch effort to ward off the very real possibility that its poll tally in the region may drop to zero, the UPA government has announced a spe ..
As a way to pacify those heavily against the splitting of Andhra and as a last-ditch effort to ward off the very real possibility that its poll tally in the region may drop to zero, the UPA government has announced a spe ..
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After the UPA-II pushed the Telangana Bill in the last parliament session of the 15th Lok Sabha, the Planning Commission worked overtime to come out with a formula to grant special category status or at least an economic package to Seemandhra. But in reality this has more to do with politics than plain economics.
After the UPA-II pushed the Telangana Bill in the last parliament session of the 15th Lok Sabha, the Planning Commission worked overtime to come out with a formula to grant special category status or at least an economic package to Seemandhra. But in reality this has more to do with politics than plain economics.
As the Congress is gearing up to sweep 17 Lok Sabha seats that fall in the Telangana region, it does not want to draw a blank in the remaining 25 seats in Seemandhra. It remains to be seen whether this pre-poll gimmick will work for the Congress among the disgruntled people there, but the move has certainly damaged the party's electoral prospects in Bihar and Odisha which for long lobbied to get a backward tag and gain economically.
Bihar chief minister and JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar w ..
Bihar chief minister and JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar w ..
To make things fool proof, Chidambaram constituted a panel under chief economic adviser, now RBI governor, Raghuram Rajan to arrive at some criteria for determining backwardness of a state. "The level of development of a state is the consequence of a complex set of historical, cultural and sociological factors," states the Rajan panel report, submitted in September, 2013. The panel which figured out a new formula to determine backwardness found 10 out of 28 states "least developed".
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