Truthfully? It's just a catchy way of reminding ourselves to use rates of change rather than absolute numbers alone. A mathematician reading this would be grabbing at his chest by now, and pleading extreme discomfort; he and his tribe have a different, specific interpretation of that phrase, and we shan't go into the details just here.
Currently, the distribution of revenue takes place based on, among other factors, the population. I am proposing an additional distribution, based on performance on various parameters, for instance, the rate of increase of population, or, to put a finer point to it, the rate of decrease of the basic birthrate. Likewise for each of the factors presently considered. That is not to say that the absolute numbers should not be used; the idea is that they should be used for part of the distribution of resources, not as the whole calculation.
That would be at the fundamental level. At more superficial levels, access to improved technology would be offered first to well-performing locations or geographical areas or states; the slick, new trains that we have been drooling over would be started first in the best performing sectors. For instance, one serving the whole of Kerala, in tandem, one bogey running north to south, the other (simultaneously) south to north. Another (all these examples in tandem, one running up, the other running down, and, it is to be hoped, not on the same pair of tracks!!!) replacing the old Nilgiri Express, the old Rock Fort Express, the old Kovai Express, and so on; effectively linking Chennai to Coimbatore, to Trichy and to Madurai respectively. There are obvious additions possible over and above the traditional ones but this will serve to illustrate the point. Again, new airports would be given priority in the growth and development areas; we need to incentivise our performing states, without depriving the needy ones of the much-needed funds for basic growth.
We really need reform desperately urgently.
The problem is a bunch of South Indians who are selfish and insecure with inbuilt inferiority complex which expresses itself as some kind of superiority complex. BJP doesn't even figure prominently anywhere in South India but talk about politics of caste, creed, religion, region, identity, language it's worse in South than anywhere in the country.
