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Despite constitutional mandate, the Inter-State Council has not come of age. Discuss.

  • UPSC 2019
  • 10 marks
  • Federalism

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Article 263 lets the President, by order alone, create a council to (a) inquire into and advise upon disputes between states, (b) investigate subjects of common interest and (c) recommend better coordination of policy. Dispute resolution stands first. Yet the Inter-State Council (ISC) was constituted only on 28 May 1990, on the Sarkaria Commission's advice,…

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  • Evidence that it has not matured
  • Why it remains stunted
  • The counter-view
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