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Prime Minister Modi urged the states to cooperate for a developed India.
Opposition Chief Ministers expressed concern about sharing resources.
The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu called for an increase in money and tax revenue share.
The meeting of Niti Aayog on Saturday, in which the Prime Minister urged all the states to work together towards the target of a developed India, also saw that some opposition chief ministers raised issues affecting their states, their main complaints boil for sharing of resources.
While Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin pushed the Center to share more money with the states, his Punjab counterpart argued that his state had no water to share with Haryana.
Mr. Stalin, whose government has been closed in a face-off with the BJP-led Center on a three-language section in the National Education Policy and has contacted the Supreme Court that due to this, more than Rs 2,000 crore is being stopped from the state, extended to “non-discriminatory cooperation for all those states.”
Speaking in the 10th Governor Council of NITI Aayog, the DMK chief said, “It is not ideal for states in federal democracy like India to struggle, argue, or make litigation to get money because of them. It hinders the development of both the state and the country.”
The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu said that the 15th Finance Commission recommended that 41% be shared with the Revenue states, making a case to increase the part of the states’ partition tax revenue by 50%. In the last four years, he claimed, the central government’s gross tax revenue was shared with only 33.16% of the states.
“Meanwhile, the share of expected expenditure from the state governments in centrally sponsored schemes continues to increase the finance of states like Tamil Nadu. On the one hand, the tax deviation from the union decreases, affects the state’s finance. On the other hand, the high contribution required for central schemes, additional burden,” he said.
Saying that the part of the states should be increased by 50%, the DMK chief urged the Center to seriously consider the demand. He also praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision for making India a developed country and gained $ 30 trillion economy by 2047.
Yamuna water
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, whose government is in dispute over water sharing from the Nangal dam, Bhak-Nangal Dam, emphasized that his state is facing a shortage and there is no water to give them.
The Aam Aadmi Party leader argued that, given the situation in Punjab, a Yamuna-Satlaj-Link (YSL) canal should be considered for construction instead of the Sutlej-Yamuna-Link (SEL) canal.
According to a statement, the Chief Minister said that Ravi, Beas, and Sutlees rivers are already in losses and water should be converted into deficit ghats. He also said that Punjab has repeatedly requested to join the talks for the allocation of Yamuna water as an agreement under the Yamuna-Suttalj-Link Project–On March 12, 1954, the then Punjab and Uttar Pradesh were signed between Punjab and Uttar Pradesh-which Punjab deserved two-thirds of water.
The agreement did not specify the area to be irrigated by Yamuna, saying that before reorganization, Yamuna, such as Ravi and Beas flowed through Punjab.
He said that Yamuna was not considered, while affecting the river water between Punjab and Haryana, while Ravi and Beas were water.
Citing a 1972 report by the Central-Material Irrigation Commission, Mr. Mann said that it suggests that Punjab (after 1966, after its restructuring) falls into the Yamuna River Basin, and therefore, if Haryana’s Ravi and the water of Ravi and the unknown rivers are claimed, Punjab should also have a similar claim on Yamuna water.
Most of the Chief Ministers attended the NITI Aayog meeting, which was released by Mamta Banerjee of West Bengal, Siddaramaiah of Karnataka, Pinarayi Vijayan of Kerala, N Rangaswamy of Puducherry and Nitish Kumar of Bihar.
