Have Newly Created Indian States Promoted Inclusive Development? A Comparison of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh

• Start date जुलाई, 2014
• Completion date दिसम्बर, 2015
• Sponsor University of East Anglia, U.K.
• Project leader Rathin Roy
• Other faculty Mita Choudhury
• Focus

  This study provides a comparative picture of the fiscal trajectories of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. The comparison suggests that the difference in the performance of the two States can be attributed partly to differences between the States of their origin, and partly to fiscal management after the creation of these States. The evidence, albeit limited, also suggests a poorer tax administration and expenditure management in Jharkhand than in Chhattisgarh.

  The study undertaken was aimed to address the following broad question: Has State creation produced a distinctive fiscal agency, especially as expressed through changes to the structure of taxation and the pattern of public spending?