Development Suffers: Central and State conflicts

The planning machinery has become political scoring grounds for the leading parties in the country, since when we started listening to political agenda and started planning accordingly? Since earlier development policies were suggestives by various planning committiees, working groups, parliamentary commissions etc where voice of most of the sectors of economies are being listned and formulated in the plan documents. May be the institutional practices remain same. Why then states has to complain every year for differential judgements? Can a political party can be held solely responsible for any planning - funding decisions. To some extents its okay, but greater socio-economic decisions cannot be left totally on the political lineages but extensive analysis and public consultation. One decisions have been reached every stakeholder in government party to development should accept it. At present, the blame game between centre and states continues and people are made to believe differently in states.

Somewhere there is thin line is drawn clearly on our federal structure of country, no more states take in on their strides when investment is less in their regions then the competing states. More so if it belongs to different parties. After 60 years of democracy we still require central -state relations to be co-ordial to an extend to allow the room to one another. Its also true that, given the political situation in the country with multi-party democratic ruling, one regions or state suffers in development because of its political orientation. Why this feudal thought in great Indian democracy? The fight between the political ideologies should not become source of discontent in centre -state relations. There is fear this tendencies would tickle down to babudom, academicians, industries and people to take a distinct orientation from the centre or suppress the needs to state, in way to result in polarising the people by state.

There has to be mutual respect between head of states and head of nation, two cannot be on equal footing, and each to be respected individually. The current politics of hate has entered into functioning in all four tier of government, each trying to supress underneath and other below trying to force themselves. This social darwanism would lead to conflicts and loss of development strides country has taken. If require we may seriously implement the centre-state reforms suggested by various committees and commissions.