The Shiromani Akali Dal has charged the centre with miserably failing in management of devolution of taxes and its duty to ensure the macroeconomic stability.
Talking part in the deliberation on motion of thanks on the Govermnor’s address in Vidhan Sabha today party Secretary and Spokesman and MLA from Roopnagar Dr. Daljit Singh Cheema said that successive Centre governments made to encroached upon the rights of the states making the states beggars in front of it. He said that Centre was keeping 68 percent of the total taxes collected from the states for itself while reimbursing the 32 percent share to states.
He further said that it was a curse that even while disbursing this amount states like Punjab who have successfully enhanced their incomes by administrative reforms and good governance were being ignored and poor performers are rewarded.
Dr. Cheema said that although Finance Commission was an autonomous body, majority of decisions are taken by Planning Commission under the direct political influence of the Centre government. He said that states are forced to get their annul plans approved by the Planning Commission which is against the spirit of the federal structure enshrined in the constitution.