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What are the salient features of Sarkaria Commission Report as regard to federal restructuring in India with special reference to autonomy demand by states?

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  • Federalism

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The Sarkaria Commission, appointed in June 1983 under Justice Ranjit Singh Sarkaria and reporting in 1988 with 247 recommendations, was the Union's answer to a decade of state autonomy demands. Its signature was to reject structural restructuring and prescribe instead a reform of how existing central powers are used.

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  • The autonomy demands it faced
  • Salient features
  • How it answered the autonomy demand
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