India confronts grave economic issues : Without a shred of doubt, a vast country has lots of issues and a country like India, idyllic specimen of a multi-religious, multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic nation in conjunction with an enormous dimension, surely India has copious numbers of issues. Some of these issues have been going on from the days of British India even and are still unanswered. Definitely the most dominant of these happen to be economic.
It is to be noted that economics is not a single and secluded factor and as a result, it does experience brunt of many others. One of the greatest economic issues, quite sidelined by the Indian governments, has been the imbalanced development along with unequal distribution of national wealth among constituent states of India. There is hardly any doubt that the Indian governance has been driven by parochial outlooks and the best specimen of the same is strengthening of western and northern part of the country depriving the eastern part. The issue has become too complicated by now.
It is worthwhile to mention that Maoist insurgency, dubbed as the greatest internal threat to the India Unity, is also an economic issue and can’t be subdued by brutal forces so easily. The entire tribal belt has been victim to overwhelming exploitations (with the tacit support of local and higher forms of governance), even if the contribution of it to the Indian economy has been second to none. Is the ongoing Maoist movement retribution then? Perhaps this is the only way to make the reluctant institutions hear.
Another pertinent India's Economy issue is the mounting differences between center and Indian states over consolidation of fiscal responsibility. However, it has got to be stated that India states in Indian federation are likely to share the accountability of fiscal consolidation together with discretion in a federal polity. There is no doubt in it that state finances have got to be fortified, especially for macroeconomic together with structural grounds
It is to be noted that economics is not a single and secluded factor and as a result, it does experience brunt of many others. One of the greatest economic issues, quite sidelined by the Indian governments, has been the imbalanced development along with unequal distribution of national wealth among constituent states of India. There is hardly any doubt that the Indian governance has been driven by parochial outlooks and the best specimen of the same is strengthening of western and northern part of the country depriving the eastern part. The issue has become too complicated by now.
It is worthwhile to mention that Maoist insurgency, dubbed as the greatest internal threat to the India Unity, is also an economic issue and can’t be subdued by brutal forces so easily. The entire tribal belt has been victim to overwhelming exploitations (with the tacit support of local and higher forms of governance), even if the contribution of it to the Indian economy has been second to none. Is the ongoing Maoist movement retribution then? Perhaps this is the only way to make the reluctant institutions hear.
Another pertinent India's Economy issue is the mounting differences between center and Indian states over consolidation of fiscal responsibility. However, it has got to be stated that India states in Indian federation are likely to share the accountability of fiscal consolidation together with discretion in a federal polity. There is no doubt in it that state finances have got to be fortified, especially for macroeconomic together with structural grounds
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