Centre- state budgetary transfers / edited by I S Gulati

Introduction I.Federal financial framework 1.Will growth and centralised fiscal arrangements do? 2. Accommodating the planning dimension II. Statutory transfers 3. Approach of the finance commissions 4. Scope for rationalisation within the system 5. distribution of non-plan transfers: Needed an alternative approach 6. Possible routes of change 7. An evaluation of the 7th award 8. Inter state allocation of central excise: below the poverty line 9. Income tax proceeds: are the states getting their due share? 10. Eighth finance commission's recommendations III Plan Transfer 11. Financing of the state's plane: A perspective for regional development 12.States plan outlays and resources mobilization :Criterion for central assistance 13. re examining the basis of plan assistance IV Discretionary transfers 14. Discretionary budgetary transfers: A review V The total picture 15. Inter-State redistribution through the budget 16.Devolution criteria of finance and planning commissions: from gamble to policy