Meghalaya Joins Other States in Seeking Higher Devolution

Meghalaya is the eighth state that has demanded increasing of the vertical devolution to the state from the divisible pool to 51 percent. The state government under the leadership of the chief minister Conrad K Sangma has also submitted proposals worth Rs 1.2 lakh crore of grants-in-aid for five years period during a meeting chaired by the Chairman of the 16th Finance Commission Arvind Panagariya held in Shillong here on Monday.

Addressing media persons, Panagariya said, "...the state's pitched was the vertical devolution to the state from the divisible pool be increased from the current 41% to 50%. Now, this is of course a figure we have been hearing in state after state and there is somehow, across states, seems to be some consensus that this devolution ought to rise from 41% to 50% and normally of course finance commission don't really increase or change the shares dramatically but in any case, for us it is an early stage of work so we don't know where that is going to go."

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