A Fragile Federation under Strain*

May 26th 2020, C.P. Chandrasekhar
Despite invoking wide-ranging emergency powers, the central government has left the task of addressing the Covid pandemic and financing that effort largely to the states. The resulting fiscal crisis threatens the fragile foundations of India's federalism.

* This article was originally published in the Frontline Print edition: June 5, 2020.


This Document is in Adobe Acrobat format and would
need a PDF reader to view it.


 
View/ Download the
document in PDF format

 


Click below
to get Adobe® Acrobat® Reader®, a free
software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.


 

 

Site optimised for 800 x 600 and above for Internet Explorer 5 and above
© MACROSCAN 2020