A business leader has warned that the region could lose out on multi-million-pound public funding opportunities and says ...

The 16th Finance Commission has walked a high-wire, balancing southern efficiency against northern equity. By rewarding GDP ...

On February 1, while presenting the Budget for FY27 in the Lok Sabha, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also tabled the ...

The last fortnight witnessed a rare confluence of events that may have a significant impact on our economic prospects. First, ...

Amaravati, Feb 8 (PTI) Poor-performing states of the country have inevitably ended up with a higher share in the Centre's devolution of tax revenues at the expense of better performers such as Andhra ...

In an interview to the news agency PTI on Sunday, Naidu preferred to identify himself as a politician working for the people ...

With most states arguing that rising cess and surcharge collections have eroded the shareable tax pool, the Finance ...

Finance Commission retains states' devolution share at 41%, introducing GDP-based criteria for equitable fund distribution.

The Centre as accepted the recommendations by the 16th Finance Commission during the Union Budget for FY27. The 16th FC has ...

Budget 2026 underlines sustained fiscal decentralisation, with the Centre keeping states’ tax share at 41% and sharply ...

The 2026-27 Union Budget is a document that reveals the shifting soul of our Republic. For those of us who have long ...

If debt, rather than devolution, becomes the primary shock absorber in India’s federal system, fiscal sustainability itself comes under strain. India needs higher effective devolution, and a reworking ...