Rationalisation of Centrally Sponsored Schemes Mooted

According to the fifteenth finance Commission, several Centrally Sponsored Schemes are just boutique in nature with dubious outcomes. It called for urgent rationalisation of Centrally Sponsored Schemes.

  • The Commission Chairman stated that pruning of such schemes would give State governments greater measure of flexibility in financing. Also, the commission noted the general status of public financing in States remains ‘stressed’ owing to payments made towards the Seventh Pay Commission, loan waivers given to farmers and debt restructuring under the UDAY scheme.
  • The proliferation of the CSSs was debatable until the Ninth Five-Year Plan, when the total number of schemes shot ....
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