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Comment on Inter State Committees.

  • UPSC 2009
  • Federalism

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Daniel J. Elazar defined federalism as self-rule plus shared rule. Shared rule needs forums where governments meet as governments, and India's "inter-state committees" are that machinery: councils under Article 263, statutory Zonal Councils, the North Eastern Council and, later, the GST Council. Their record shows a pattern. Bodies with a bounded mandate and a cost…

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  • The family of inter-state bodies
  • What they achieve
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