Recent Trends in Central Transfer to States
Central transfers, which have been declining since 2011-12, increased sharply in 2014-15. This change, both in magnitude and direction, needs to be seen from the perspective of two policy changes which affected the transfer of resources to states.
Transfer of Fund Under CSS
- First, transfer of funds under CSS prior to 2014-15 was effected through the dual mode of a) state budgets; and b) direct transfer to district rural development agencies and independent societies. In this regard, state governments had expressed their concern that direct transfers to the implementing agencies circumvented state budgets, thereby diluting the responsibilities of the ....
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Economic Development
- 1 The North-South Divide: Key Issues
- 2 The North-South Economic Divide
- 3 Fifteenth Finance Commission
- 4 Implications of Special Levies
- 5 The Goods & Service Tax
- 6 The Finance Commission
- 7 Centre-State Financial Relations: Indian Context
- 8 Exclusion in Panchayat Elections
- 9 Does Reservation Policy Need Reform
- 10 Are Tribals Really Benefitting from the Forest Rights Act
- 11 Why Transgenders are Considered as Vulnerable
- 12 Economic Opportunities for Differently-abled
- 13 Climate Refugee & International Convention
- 14 Climate Refugees in The Indian Subcontinent
- 15 Inequality in Urban India
- 16 Urban Poverty in India
- 17 Urban Development & Transformation
- 18 Inclusive Urbanisation and SDGs