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Ep 336: Shruti Rajagopalan Dives Into Delimitation

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Rajasabha and Revenue Subha: A Comparison

If we allocated according to population not what's happening today Uttar Pradesh would get nine more seats in Rajasabha okay whereas in revenue subha Uttar Pradesh would lose 17 seats at current revenue raising capacity. This allows for room to grow tomorrow if Kerala starts declining because it's aging out and young people coming from UP and Bihar can't find work in Kerala. We shouldn't be allowed you know to tinker too much with the federal system right this is assuming that a lot of the current economic growth engines federal systems all the other things are roughly the same but this allows for a dramatic amount of fiscal decentralization or intergovernmental transfers whichever right.

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