Should the allocation of revenues and parliamentary seats to states continue to be based on the 1971 census? Analyse (200 Words)
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IAS Parliament 5 years
KEY POINTS
· Allocation of tax revenues by successive Finance Commissions has been invariably correlated to populations of individual states.
· Using the 2011 census numbers, per capita incomes in northern states are substantially lower than those for southern states. This could result in higher proportions of overall revenues to be allocated to northern states by the 15th Finance Commission compared with allocations made by the 14th Finance Commission and could potentially cause disaffection in southern states.
· By linking 1971 population numbers to allocations made by Finance Commissions is not necessarily unfair to the northern states. If the large northern states had managed development efforts better, the faster rise in their populations would have been to their advantage.
· States need to be treated fairly but poor past economic performance should not be the basis for preferential treatment.
· The weight assigned to the population should be decided (as per the 1971 census) and an indicator for demographic changes (since then) be introduced separately.
· For some time now there has been concern in south Indian states about how their numbers of seats in the Lok Sabha would decrease once the next delimitation exercise is done.
· According to the 84th Amendment of the Constitution in 2002, this reallocation of parliamentary constituencies is to be done as per the 2031 census.
· The speculation is that south India may lose as many as 45 seats to north India. Clearly, this would not be acceptable to southern states.
· Ten years from now, post 2031 southern states are likely to be highly agitated if their numbers in the Lok Sabha were to decrease.
MURALIDHARAN 5 years
Kindly review!!
IAS Parliament 5 years
Try to use allocation of revenues and parliamentary seats as sub-headings and analyse them. Keep Writing.
Shivangi 5 years
Please review. Thank you.
IAS Parliament 5 years
Try to elaborate on distribution of parliamentary seats. Keep Writing.
HB 5 years
PLEASE REVIEW
IAS Parliament 5 years
Good attempt. Keep Writing.
Shantanu tiwari 5 years
Plz review
IAS Parliament 5 years
Good attempt. Information about article 280 is not needed. Keep the "context" part as introduction. Keep Writing.
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