{"id":51083,"date":"2019-08-10T11:20:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T05:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?page_id=51083"},"modified":"2019-08-10T11:21:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T05:51:01","slug":"answered-indias-asymmetric-federalism-has-helped-in-keeping-nation-as-one-addressing-need-of-many-vulnerable-communities-discuss","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-indias-asymmetric-federalism-has-helped-in-keeping-nation-as-one-addressing-need-of-many-vulnerable-communities-discuss\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] \u201cIndia\u2019s asymmetric federalism has helped in keeping nation as one addressing need of many vulnerable communities.\u201d Discuss."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Demand of the question<\/strong>
Introduction.<\/strong> What is asymmetric federalism?
Body. <\/strong>How it helped in Indian unity?
Conclusion. <\/strong>Contextual conclusion. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Asymmetric federalism means different constituent states possess different powers in political, administrative and fiscal arrangements between the units constituting a federation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One or more of the states has considerably more independence than the others, though they have the same constitutional status. The division of powers is not symmetric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How asymmetric\nfederalism in India helped in ensuring unity and addresses needs of vulnerable\ncommunities?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Guaranteeing rights: <\/strong>These special\nprovisions in the Constitution has helped in protecting fundamental rights and\ncompensated for initial inequalities in the social system.<\/li>
  2. Conserve ethnicity and culture: <\/strong>In\nnorth-east there is a distinct difference in ethnicity from the rest of India.\nArticle 371 provide special powers to northeastern states. The safeguards\nprovided to these states through special provisions include respect for\ncustomary laws, religious and social practices, restrictions on the ownership\nand transfer of land, and restrictions on the migration non-residents to the\nState. <\/li>
  3. Recognition of differences: <\/strong>It\nfacilitates public recognition of cultural differences and allow certain\nethnocultural minorities to have self rule. Thereby ensuring their development.<\/li>
  4. Social justice:<\/strong> Allowance for separate laws\nto govern different religious groups, and provisions for various kinds of\naffirmative action for extremely disadvantaged groups help in ensuring justice\nto them.<\/li>
  5. Ensure unity in diversity:<\/strong> These\nprovisions respects and preserve diversity of the country by protecting\nvulnerable group through special powers. This ensure unity in diversity leading\nto \u2018sabka sath sabka vikas\u2019.<\/li>
  6. Satisfiy different needs:<\/strong> It act as a\nsolution to satisfy different needs of various federal units, as the result of\nan ethnic, linguistic or cultural difference. Asymmetric federalism has helped\nin reducing dissatisfaction among various states.<\/li>
  7. Reduced radicalisation: <\/strong>Special powers\ngiven to the states help in reducing radicalisation. Many states include\nseveral diverse population, with the majority of the population of the state vulnerable\nand poor. Asymmetric federalism Ensure decision making by these communities\nwhich is best for them.<\/li>
  8. Better representation in democracy:<\/strong> It\nhas helped in providing representation to minority areas and areas with less\npopulation providing them justice.<\/li>
  9. Strengthen social fabric: <\/strong>It vent\nseparatist and secessionist activities. By providing special powers and\nsemi-autonomy people feel empowered and do not feel to get separated. It also\nprevent their exploitation from Political class in name of powers.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The unequal status between various states gave rise to the need for constitutional recognition of inequality, which should be there into the federal polity but in such a way that which protect diversity without sacrificing unity or imposing uniformity. In the Constitution of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In India due to inequality of states and of regions within the state was creating dissatisfaction. Asymmetric federalism and special provisions have helped solving these problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Demand of the question Introduction. What is asymmetric federalism? Body. How it helped in Indian unity? Conclusion. Contextual conclusion. Asymmetric federalism means different constituent states possess different powers in political, administrative and fiscal arrangements between the units constituting a federation. One or more of the states has considerably more independence than the others, though they… Continue reading [Answered] \u201cIndia\u2019s asymmetric federalism has helped in keeping nation as one addressing need of many vulnerable communities.\u201d Discuss.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":49132,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51083","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}