Contents
Introduction- Tension Areas of Union-State Relations
- Demands of the States
Description
Sixty three years of Independence have witnessed tremendous changes and there is immediate need to have a fresh look in an introspective spirit at the Centre State relations both in the context of various recommendations of the Sarkaria Commission and formation of three more new states in recent years.
India, as a nation, has been undergoing a radical transformation unprecedented in its scale, sweep and intensity, during the last one-decade since the launching of the package of new economic reforms in mid-1991.
Structural arrangements and clearly defined norms and procedures embodied in the Constitution have provided the guidelines for Indian fledging federalism but it is in the operating dynamics of Centre- State relationship than one sees the true nature of Indian federal equation at three operating levels, viz., political, constitutional and procedural.
The political or politico-constitutional pendulum of Indian federal system has been relentlessly swinging towards a strong Centre for the last five decades and India has become what K. Santhanam called "Centre Paramount Federation" in view of the paramount need to maintain the unity and integrity of India.
