Small States- Clarifications

Ruchi_S
Re: Small States - Demands, Problems and Solutions
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Hi Kishore,I think that by saying "while Jharkhand and Chattisgarh became FAILED states despite of large mineral and natural resources Chattisgarh has started to zoom up" ,you mean Uttarakhand has started to zoom up? Just clarifying.Thx.Ruchi.
_ Ruchi_S
Yes Ruchi... It was a typo.. Thx for clarification..
_ Kishore
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Chandra Sekhar
Re: Small States - Demands, Problems and Solutions
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thats a nice writeup, kish404.
can you tell us why you are calling chattisgarh and jharkhand as failed states?
is bundelkhand being demanded only from the districts of uttar pradesh or would it also include other districts of madhya pradesh as well (like sagar, chattarpur etc) which together form the bundelkhand?
_ Chandra Sekhar

Hi Chandra,
I called Chattisgarh and Jharkhand as failed states because of their unability to solve their problems and take developmental path.Chattisgarh is now a worst sufferer of naxalism because of which the Law & Order is badly affected. Law & Order is an important pre-condition for development. If L&O is affected no development can take place.Jharkhand from it's inception was suffering from political instability. A politically unstable government cannot give a stable governance and hence good governance is the casuality.Regarding Bundelkhand I don't have any idea on it.. Can someday please help me to understand the issue of bundelkhand..
_ Kishore
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sivaharimani
Re: Small States - Demands, Problems and Solutions
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kish it is a good write up. and your solution are also right.but can you give from what the base of your idea you have derived these solutions...means please explain in brief...
_ J.MANIVANNAN...

Hi Mani,
I will try to explain the solutions.. 1) Giving Panchayat Raj bodies autonomy.
The basic idea behind this solution is to use division as antithesis to a division. I mean, if a demand for division of state is coming up, annul this division by further devolving powers to local bodies. Then local problems get attended at the local level thus evolving local solutions.The constitutional machinery of PRI bodies can be used to strenthen PRI bodies.Even a bit wild, I have one idea in my mind in this respect. Lot of small state demands are coming up because of political considerations. To annul this, remove the state as political entity. It will give way to say, district administration, mandal administration, village administration etc.. [ I said it is wild..may be weird too ]
2) Setting scientifically evolved developmental indicators (As the current human development indicators fail to identify actual development) and apportioning state resources as per these indicators as applied to different parts of the countries.
This solution aims at tackling small states problem with development mantra.. The indicators of development being literacy, longevity, poverty, etc.. But the problem lies in the definitions of these indicators.For eg: let us take poverty line definition. A/c to it, any person who gets 2400Kcal per day is considered as above poverty line. Let us take this scenario: suppose a person gets the above said calories a day but do not have clothes to cover his body and no hut to live. Is he really above poverty line ???If a state goes by such definitions and announces that govt has achieved development in so called undeveloped region, the demand persists as the ground level realities are different.Therefore a state needs to develop comprehensive developmental indicators and analyse each region of the state with these indicators. If certain region is backward according to these indicators it has to spend more resources to develop such region as compared with other regions. All this information should be communicated to the people in a transparent way so that discontent is not arised in the people of other regions. Once all the regions are developed on par, then the allocation should be equal for all parts of the state.
3) Trying to achieve political consensus in forums like "National Integration Council".
This is based on the idea of achieving political consensus on small states demand in national forums such as "National Integration Council" instead of unnecessarilly going to streets and disrupting public life.
_ Kishore
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