I read an interesting article on Zopag.com titled "HAVE YOUR SAY: Say yes to United States of India". I have been for splitting Indian states for a long time. States are too powerful. Every very thing at state level is centralized, hence more indifferent and corrupt. Which has helped to further weaken the central government. And people are disenfranchised even though they elect some 10 layers of governments.
The argument against creating smaller states many times comes from peoples need/desire/nature to maintain the status quo. And in old civilizations like India, the pressure to maintain status quo is more and fear of change is even bigger. This is not about change for the sake of change, it is about delivering good governance to everyone and not just for some folks in Chennai or Bangalore. We need more local access and representation. Our society and leaders either don't want and/or not capable of producing a decentralized decision making system. When "Potti Sriramulu" wanted to break up the Madras State the arguments were the same.
The article explains how better justice will be delivered when states split. There are so many cases where judgment has gone in favor of the right people but too late. But the present political system has not bothered to add more judges or courts to make the process faster. So this is peoples way of making it happen, create more states and hence more high courts.
Again look at the lopsided development projects. One part of Chennai has almost 24 hours water supply while others has none. We can only imagine the plight of folks in say southern town like Ravanasamudram. Chennai gets Rs.14,000+ Cr metro and some bus depot near Rameshwaram is not running buses due to lack of Rs.140 spare parts. Look at Pondicherry/Delhi because the state is small services delivered well...
That's why Tamil Nadu should be also split for example into two/three states and with capitals in cities that are not business centers.
Friday, December 11, 2009
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