REDEFINE CENTRAL STATE RELATIONS IN PRESENT CONTEXT
Ch.V.Prabhakar Rao
Educationist & Senior journalist.
The
people`s mandatory is the ultimate power of the democracy. Being with a free
mind and body is the nature of the human being but at the same time he has a
inherent quality of controlling others to keep his wisdom high. There are many
stories and struggles to keep him free from all clutches of the bonding of the
society. In the course of the time many theories and synthesis had evolved to
control the human in the name of society, state, religion and many more names
and tactics.
The Telangna Chief Minister, K.Chandhra Shekar Rao,
has raised a valid point on state and central relation while discussing the
reservation policy in the Telangana state. Why the state shall not have the
power to reschedule the reservations or any other policies according to the present
social and economic conditions of the local (state) society? We have many
amendments to our constitution accordingly for the betterment of the society.
Not only, is the reservation policy, one or the
other power, the national government a federal government, which can’t encroach
the powers of the states. The central government has to enact the rule to
strengthen the state governments` hands rather than clipping their wings, as
doing at present.
After a long development process of the nature and
society the present state of the government forms are in the existence. All
over the world at present only two forms of the governments, mostly, in
existence, either democratic or communist in some small nations may have
anarchy or monarchical form of governments. Major world is under the democratic
people governments. Like India, a cluster of
homogenous and heterogeneous ethnic groups , has the federal form of
democratic government, with a written constitution to separate the powers, duties and responsibilities of the
state and central to rule the people in a good way, according to the national
and local needs and desires.
The Indian constitution writers might have foreseen
the future of the social, political and economical attitudes and developments of
differences of opinions of the next generations, while framing the powers of
the state and central. The constitution has clearly defined the powers of the
state and central and a few powers have reserved to take action by both as per
the need of the hour, they are in concurrent list.
Basically the state shall take care of the welfare
activities and plan for equal growth of the state in all walks of the citizens,
irrespective of their caste, creed and colour. To achieve these goals the state
government has to plan for its own planning and grounding practices by its own
way to suit its geographical, linguistic and cultural needs.
The central government Leadership, from the day one,
has treated the Indian states as its own subordinate counties rather than their
ethnic entity and respect. In good olden days the Indian people might not have
the knowledge of the constitution or they might have respected the then great
leaders and followed their words in true word and spirit. By taking the advantage of the single political
party governments in the central and state, the central government heads
dictated terms to the states till the Tamilnadu resisted the central linguistic
policies n 60s.
The cultural differences of the North and South
states always have conflict and the quantitative groups of North try to
influence and dominate the South. In present scenario the BJP government also
follow the same old precedents of the old to curb and control the voice and
aspirations of the South Indian state particularly.
The congress governments has taken the rural
development funds from states and directly sends to rural government agencies,
like Pnchayat Raj institutions. Later it has taken the legislature enactment
power in education. Now the central government is funding the primary schools
of the states and deciding the syllabus of the class at par with the highly
educated urban community.
There were many hues and cries from the
intellectuals and different democratic organisations on nation common core
syllabus and CBSE pattern education at school level. The nation, India, a
diversified country united as one. But it has its own differences from the state
to state and that the people of the state want keep their separate traditional,
cultural and linguistic entity intact, apart from their democratic views and
opinions.
The centre has the only one idea, it seems that,
that our contry should be more empirical government in the name of democracy.
No party has vote to power with more than 35% of votes, with one exception
after Rajiv Gandhi`s assassination. But the democratic rules gave the sovereign
power to the majority out of polled votes to rule the nation.
The big brother`s attitude of the central, in state
issues and poking nose in state administration in the name of observations and
monitoring, is a big headache of the state.
The state governments are controlled by words than
the fixed conventions or written law. The states feel unhappy on the central’s behaviour
and many instances that the centre has removed the state governments by
proclaiming article 356, when the state government is not in their way. The use
of the article 356, is not restricted to any one party central government.
Power madness is same for all Indian political parties, irrespective of their
ideology are background.
The real need and purpose of the central
government is to safe guard the nation
from external threats, plan for national safety and defence, intelligence
agencies, Heavy industries, judiciary at national level, standardisation of
currency( national monetary policy) and international transport, like airways, ports
etc,.
Now the central government policies have made the state
governments as a post office service agent or a courier agent. In the name
different taxes, even after introducing the GST, the central government
collects more revenues from the states. The states beg the central for its
natural share of the taxes. Most of the states are unable to pay the salaries
to their employers, due to the funds crunch.
Today there may not be a single scheme of the state
governments funded by its own fund, without the share of the central government.
An intellectual should think that, from where the central government can
generate funds, which do not have any physical existence or its own income
generation system, other than tax collecting agencies.
Every citizen and intellectual should evolve a new transparent system,
where the state central relation shall not strain. So far many administrative
reports, commissions on the state central relations and constitutional division
of powers has said a lot but the central government has implemented all the suggestion s of
the reports to strengthen its powers and
bypassed the state governments.
Central government powers may be superior than the
states as per the constitution, but the constitution was written for the view
point of the then intellectuals and the prevailing social, economical,
educational conditions of the then society. Our leders have amended the
constitution accordingly to suit the present social conditions but not to give
free hand to states and decentralise the economic powers. Now the states are
only implementing agencies of the centre.
The states have no choice to prepare their own needy
plans to suit their regional conditions. The state governments can only change
names of policy and redesign it as their own, this type of liberalisation also
not fully allowed in development policies. If any state government designes its
own development plan or provide any subsidy or any remission to their wards, till that extent the financial burden
is on the state government.
When the states born the self declared schemes
financial burden, like farmers subsidy or loan waiver, where is the
independence of the state to plan and implement its own ethnic group of people? Let eevery state leader should think about
their independency in change of social order and state financial and revenue
collection and distribution in a way of social and natural justice.
Ch.V.Prabhakar Rao
Educationist & Senior journalist.
303 Eternal Krishna, Road No.4,
Haripuri
Colony,Kothapet.
Hyderabad 500 035
Cell: 939 153 3339
Email. chvprabhakarrao@gmail.com
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