Reform in Seventh Schedule
Arguments in Favour of Reforms in Seventh Schedule
- State demands for greater autonomy with rising need for local actions under ‘think global and act local’ approach.
- Need for decentralisation as despite the 73rd and 74th Constitutional amendments, except in a few states, there has been little progress at decentralisation—to both rural and urban local bodies.
- The needs of governance are not static and are bound to change over time. A subject that was vital for legislative allocation in 1950 may no longer be relevant in the present.
- Recommendations of Sarkaria Commission (1988), asking the residuary powers to be transferred to states and ....
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