Can Smaller States Promise Better Governance?
By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 17 November 2011, 03:15 IST   |    5 Comments
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Bangalore: Is Small is Beautiful and Better? - India's political circle furiously debates as Mayawati's cabinet clears the proposal to divide Uttar Pradesh into four parts. And the often asked but unanswered question arises again - Are Smaller Sates ruled Better?
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There seems to be no end for the Telengana struggle in the near future and with Maya's demands for splitting UP into four, the union government will undoubtedly have to deal with more calls for separation. Gorkha Janmukti Morcha has been campaigning for a separate state of Gorkhaland for many years. Similar demands have been heard from Assam, Vidarbha, Kodagu etc and it would be a tough task for the central government to grant the just demands. The evidence of growth and development in cases of large states and small states or for that matter, large or small countries, are very neutral. The debate would turn worthless looking at the way India and China are growing, if the argument goes as bigger states lacks growth. However, when the Chief Minister of the State says that the state, massive in size and population, cannot be governed as it is; she needs to be heard.

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