Cooperative Federalism

3 notes tagged Cooperative Federalism.

• Polity

  GST Council: The Weighted Voting Formula, and Why Its Recommendations Are Not Binding

  Article 279A's exact one-third/two-thirds weighted vote, the three-fourths majority it needs, and the 2022 Supreme Court ruling that the Council's own recommendations do not bind Parliament or the states.

• Polity

  NITI Aayog: Why It Is Neither Constitutional Nor Statutory, and How It Differs from the Planning Commission

  NITI Aayog was set up by a Cabinet resolution, not an Act or an article, which is the single fact every question on this body actually tests. Composition, functions, and the real contrast with the Planning Commission it replaced.

• Economy

  Planning Commission to NITI Aayog: What Changed

  Why the Planning Commission was an extra-constitutional body from 1950, what power it lost to NITI Aayog on 1 January 2015, and its real composition.