Tagged: Maharashtra

Join the Debate – Are smaller states good for India?

Please use this thread to share thoughts, comments and ideas on re-organisation of states in India. To kick-start the discussion, excerpts from a few thought-provoking posts and articles below. The first excerpt from To...

“BiMaRUnomics” Examined

Readers may remember a series of posts (links below) I had published last year (against the backdrop of violence against North Indians in Maharashtra) examining state-wise GDP and contributions to the central exchequer in...

“Maharashtranomics” and Bihar – Part II

Following up on my earlier post, here is a neat table titled “Index of Fiscal Self Reliance”. It comes from Annexure 7 (Annex 7.10, Para 7.33) to the 12th Finance Commission Report [pdf file]....

No longer funny…

A Marathi Manoos’ house is ransacked in Jamshedpur for no other reason except that he belonged to the wrong “state” A 10-year old boy – almost certainly too young to understand what the fuss is...

I can’t get a job in Mumbai anymore

This is beyond being “funny” “…(Maharashtra) state Finance Minister Jayant Patil…announced in the state legislative assembly that 80 per cent jobs in companies that will now open units in Maharashtra must go to locals....