Vivek's Commentary

Karnataka state has witnessed the 6 president's rule. The formation of Karnataka government is highly influenced by Central government. Another interesting thing about Karnataka State is that the state can't digest the coalition government. Coalition government in Karnataka were unable to complete the whole term. Let us see some interesting things. I will divide these article into 3 parts - 1) Same party is ruling at State and Center but Something goes wrong with Party at Center - Karnataka State faced first president's rule in 1971 from 19th March 1971 to 20th March 1972. Veerendra Patil from Congress was Chief Minister of Karnataka, but Congress split in 1969 and Veerendra Patil preferred to be with Congress (O) and therefore government lost the majority in 1971. 2) One party is ruling at state and another party is ruling at Center - In 1977, Karnataka state witness second state emergency. In 1977, Janata alliance managed to win the loksabha election. Janata alli...

The N K Singh's 15th Finance Commission has started the debate over the population criteria. But we are ignoring one thing. Are states using this fund properly? Let's take two states - Gujarat and Maharashtra Before 2017, there was two types of expenditure - planned and non-planned. Planned expenditure of states is the expenditure that comes under center's advances to states for their plan. The expenditure other than planned expenditure i.e. spending to maintain the law and order i.e. spending on police, government offices and departments etc is known as non-planned expenditure. Now let's have a look of planned expenditure of Maharashtra state. Data Source - An author uses data from Reserve Bank of India for given analysis Budget estimates are predicted expenditure based on the analysis of pre-budget trends. Revised estimates are a mid-year estimates based on six months actual trends and predicted expenditure for the balance six months. Accounts are actua...