{"id":186319,"date":"2022-05-24T21:41:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T16:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=186319"},"modified":"2022-09-27T18:09:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T12:39:20","slug":"answered-critically-analyze-the-functioning-of-the-inter-state-council-in-promoting-cooperative-federalism-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-critically-analyze-the-functioning-of-the-inter-state-council-in-promoting-cooperative-federalism-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] Critically analyze the functioning of the Inter-State Council in promoting cooperative federalism in India."},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"624\"><strong>Introduction: <\/strong>Write in brief about Inter-State Council.<br \/>\n<strong>Body: <\/strong>Explain how Inter-State Council promotes cooperative federalism and also write some issues in doing so.<br \/>\n<strong>Way forward: <\/strong>Give some suggestions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The Inter-State Council is a <strong>constitutional body<\/strong> that facilitates coordination between states and the center. However, it is a recommendatory body to investigate and discuss subjects in which some or all of the states or the Central government have a common interest. In fact, it is set up on the basis of provisions in <strong>Article 263<\/strong> of the Constitution of India on the recommendation of the Sarkaria Commissions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Promotes cooperative federalism:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It investigates and advises on potential disputes between States.<\/li>\n<li>The Inter-State Council acts as a tool for cooperation, coordination and the evolution of public policy.<\/li>\n<li>It enquires into and discusses matters of common interest to some or all States or Union to one or more States.<\/li>\n<li>It also makes recommendations on any such issue, especially recommendations for better management of policy and action on that issue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Issues:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As of now, the harsh reality is that the Inter-State Council has had just 12 meetings since it was set up in 1990. There was a gap of a decade between the 10th meeting in 2006 and the 11th meeting in 2016, and the council met again in November 2017.<\/li>\n<li>The Inter-state council is not a permanent constitutional body. Instead, it can be established by president at any time based on the matter of public interest.<\/li>\n<li>The council is as yet just a discussion group, but it should have a greater say in federal coordination in the future.<\/li>\n<li>The council does not have a permanent secretariat which ensures the periodic meetings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Way forward:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is important for the Inter-State Council to meet at least twice a year, to adopt harmonious decisions on all matters that impact the states.<\/li>\n<li>A more empowered Inter-State Council should have a voting structure like the GST council.<\/li>\n<li>If the Inter-State Council is to emerge as the key institution to manage inter-state frictions, it first needs to have a regular meeting schedule.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction: Write in brief about Inter-State Council. Body: Explain how Inter-State Council promotes cooperative federalism and also write some issues in doing so. Way forward: Give some suggestions. The Inter-State Council is a constitutional body that facilitates coordination between states and the center. However, it is a recommendatory body to investigate and discuss subjects in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-critically-analyze-the-functioning-of-the-inter-state-council-in-promoting-cooperative-federalism-in-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Answered] Critically analyze the functioning of the Inter-State Council in promoting cooperative federalism in India.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":58,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701939111},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}