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The document outlines recommendations from various commissions regarding administrative reforms and center-state relations in India. Key proposals include establishing an Inter-state council, empowering states with more financial resources, and ensuring governors are appointed based on non-partisan criteria. The Sarkaria and Punchhi commissions emphasize the need for fixed terms for governors, consultation with state leaders, and a balanced approach to parliamentary supremacy over state matters.

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Commission

The document outlines recommendations from various commissions regarding administrative reforms and center-state relations in India. Key proposals include establishing an Inter-state council, empowering states with more financial resources, and ensuring governors are appointed based on non-partisan criteria. The Sarkaria and Punchhi commissions emphasize the need for fixed terms for governors, consultation with state leaders, and a balanced approach to parliamentary supremacy over state matters.

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Administrative reforms commission

• Establishment of an Inter-state council under Article 263 of the constitution

• Appointment of persons having long-experiences in public life and non-partisan attitudes


as governors

• Delegated maximum powers to the states

• Transferring of more financial resources to the states to reduce their dependency upon
the centre

• Deployment of central armed forces in the states either on their request or otherwise

• Rajamannar committee appointed by Tamil Nadu government made various


recommendation to address the asymmetry between powers of centre and the state

• Punjab through Anandpur Sahib resolution and West Bengal through a memorandum
made similar recommendations to address these asymmetry

• Government appointed Sarkaria Commission in 1983 and Punnchi Commission in 2007


to examine the status of centre-state relations

Sarkaria commission recommendation:

• Setting up a permanent inter-state council

o Article 356 should be used sparingly

o Institution of all-India service should be strengthened

o Residuary power should remain with the parliament

o Reasons should be communicated to the state when state bills are vetoed by the President

o Centre should have powers to deploy its armed forces, even without the consent of states.
However, it is desirable that the states should be consulted

o Procedure of consulting the chief minister in the appointment of the state governor should
be prescribed in the constitution itself

o Governors should be allowed to complete their term of five years

o Commissioner for linguistic minorities should be activated

Punchhi commission
o Giving a fixed term of five years to the governors and their removal by the process of
impeachment

o Union should be extremely restrained in asserting Parliamentary supremacy in matters


assigned to the states

o It prescribed certain conditions that one should keep in mind while appointing
governors:

▪ He should be eminent in some walk of life

▪ He should be a person from outside the state

▪ He should be a detached figure and not connected with the local politics

▪ He should not be connected with politics in recent past

o Government should be given a fixed tenure of five years

o Procedure given for the impeachment of the President could be made applicable to
governor as well

o Governor should insist on Chief Minister proving his majority on the floor of the house
for which he should prescribe a time-limit

o Bommai case guidelines should be kept in mind while deciding cases related to
President’s rule

o Inter-state council should be made more use of to further centre-state relations

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