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Discuss the policy initiatives of the Fourteenth Finance Commission aimed towards promising and strengthening agricultural development in India.

  • UPSC 2022
  • 15 marks
  • Planning and Economic Development

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The Fourteenth Finance Commission (chair Y. V. Reddy; constituted January 2013, report submitted December 2014, award 2015-20) framed no agriculture-specific scheme. Its bearing on agriculture was structural: because agriculture (Entry 14) and water (Entry 17) are State subjects, it chose to widen states' untied fiscal space and let them set their own farm priorities —…

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  • How the award touched agriculture
  • Did untied devolution help agriculture?
  • The Fifteenth Commission's corrective
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