The concept of federation has utterly failed in India. Specifically in context of Karantaka! We have to fight to use the river that orginates and flows in Karantaka. Central govt is proxy to the neighbouring states for political intrests. Laws that are used were formed pre independence days when Madras was the Bristish HQ in south India and policies and laws were obviously in its favour. Central govt sits quite when Maharastra rakes up boundry issue which must have got settled 50 years ago. If an irrigation/hydro electricity project servers only a specific set of people this is bound to happen. Nobody can think India is a federation today. Center is not serious about its federation sprit. It will not be long before Karantaka looks for Autonomy or other states ask for autonomy as federation is not working.
High time central govt acts with honest intrest than political bais to solve regional problems. All rivers, minerals, resources, electricity etc should be owned by centeral govt and shared between all states. No state should own any thing. This sounnds like a solution.
RE:Indian federation has failed
by Akram on Apr 02, 2008 09:27 AM Permalink
Madras was selected by British as its HQ owing to its geographical location with sea port. when linguistic based states were formed all were provided the same rights and law enforcement there is no favour for Tamilnadu.
If TN tommorow tells that the electricity produced by NLC is orginates from TN and others have no right over it.
Cauvery river originates from Karnataka and it flows thru Tamilnadu to reach sea. The river on its own didnt define it belongs to Kannadiga or Tamils.
please check with your brothers in Bangalore are they ready to cut down the electric cables which carry electricity from NLC. By your definition it should be Tamil Electricity and not be used in Kannada soil.
Madras is a metropolitan of modern days with no riot history. Even during hindi agitation no hindi speaking people were attacked.
