Karnataka CM - Developed South is subsidizing populated North

[manlion]

Having established our place firmly in the union, let me raise certain issues of federalism that affect us on a day to day basis. Relatively well-developed states like Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra contribute more to central taxes than what they get in return from the center. What we get from the center comes in the form of state’s share in devolution of central taxes and grants under centrally sponsored schemes. The grants under centrally sponsored schemes come with strings attached. Schemes are designed keeping the entire country in mind and we are forced to implement them and provide our share. We need a system where states receive larger portion of the taxes collected from our states and the share of centrally sponsored schemes must go down. The central schemes, if at all needed, need to be flexible so that we can tailor them to our needs.

Historically, the South has been subsidizing the north. Six states south of the Vindhyas contribute more taxes and get less. For example, for every one rupee of tax contributed by Uttar Pradesh that state receives rupee 1.79. For every one rupee of tax contributed by Karnataka, the state receives 0.47 rupee. While I recognize the need for correcting regional imbalances, where is the reward for development? The states of the South have nearly reached replacement levels of population growth. Yet, population is a prominent criteria for devolution of central taxes. For how long can we keep incentivizing population growth?

https://www.thenewsminute.com/artic...daramaiah-78053?amp&__twitter_impression=true

 

[protest]

This is like someone reading our posts on pdf.

 

[pothead]

Yes....Congress should go to UP, Bihar, MH, Guj, Rajasthan and tell people of those states that South is feeding their lazy bums..that will fetch them votes

 

[manlion]

South India's politicos echoing public anger with leadership in north, conciliatory leadership needed at Centre

The south of the Vindhyas is angry. Or at least its politicians certainly are. What else can possibly explain a chorus of sorts, as unorchestrated as it may sound, against the hegemony of a New Delhi. Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu, who calls himself the senior most politician in India, is the latest to join the bandwagon. In his latest avatar of a leader fighting for Telugu atmagauravam and against the will of New Delhi to do as it pleases, Naidu is dismissive of the nomenclature of central money and state money.

"It is people's money,'' he said. "The southern states contribute maximum tax revenues to the Centre but the latter is diverting the money to the development of northern states.'' Naidu's angst arises from the fact that when he needs the money generated by his Telugu brethren, it is subsiding those in the cow belt while he has to scrape the bottom of his exchequer.

Last year, Telangana Information Technology minister KT Rama Rao had expressed his disappointment at lack of focus on the engines of growth in south India, emphasising more on the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor. His father, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao took the rhetoric a step further this month when he accused the Centre of reducing states to puppets and riding roughshod over the federal structure of India. Both Naidu and KCR were echoing what their Karnataka counterpart Siddaramaiah said last month. "Karnataka contributes 9 percent of the total taxes collected in India, which is the third highest. But we get only 4.65 percent from the Centre,'' Siddaramaiah pointed out.

When actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan launched his Makkal Needhi Maiam party in Madurai last month, his party flag raised eyebrows. It showed six hands that Kamal said denoted the six states of south India, holding each other. It was a visual manifestation of the need to be together as a pressure group of sorts to fight the perception — right or wrong — that south India is left out of both decision-making and financial benefits by the Centre. Important to note is that Kamal follows Periyar's Dravidian ideology that among other things, espouses the idea of a Dravida Nadu.

Are these utterances to be taken as stray expressions of anguish or a pointer to a deep cleavage within India? Mohan Guruswamy, a policy analyst and former advisor to finance minister Yashwant Sinha said it seems to arise out of an apprehension that in due course of time, south India will have a fewer Lok Sabha seats in comparison with the cow belt states and that will translate to reduction in political power.

http://www.firstpost.com/politics/s...tory-leadership-needed-at-centre-4390181.html

Periyar was a visionary, he foresaw the Hindi cow belt states political / economical domination on Dravida Nadu

 

[kvpak]

These people (CM of Andra, TN, etc) state the problem that money from south given to hindi belt. Good first step. They do not state the obvious solution. That is, separate from India and form own country.

If they say that they would be removed from job and would never be allowed to contest election again.

 

[manlion]

Tamilnadu CM THEN and NOW