From The Planning Commission To The NITI Aayog
From The Planning Commission To The NITI Aayog
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Commission era had allowed. Centralisation will be the mechanism for imposing
neo-liberalism on the country at large.
This may appear odd at first sight. The
dominant capitalist powers imposing
neo-liberalism on the world have in the
past been accused of breaking up large
countries, Yugoslavia being a prime example. Should not India, by analogy, be
the sort of country that they would be interested in breaking up rather than centralising? The answer is no, because in
India neo-liberalism has made greater
inroads into the central government than
into the state governments. Its sweep
over the country as a whole therefore requires centralisation. The fiscal crisis of
state governments engineered deliberately by the centre through its Shylocklike usurious interest rate loans in the
1990s was an effort in this direction. The
Niti Aayog will continue that effort.
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