■ ■ COOPERATION BETWEEN THE CENTRE AND STATES

#Centrestaterelations

Constitution have following provisions to secure cooperation and coordination between the Centre and the states:

◇ The Parliament can provide for the adjudication of any dispute or complaint with respect to the use, distribution and control of waters of any inter-state river and river valley.

◇ The President can establish (under Article 263) an Inter-State Council to investigate and discuss subject of common interest between the Centre and the states. Such a council was set up in 1990.

◇ Full faith and credit is to be given throughout the territory of India to public acts, records and judicial proceedings of the Centre and every state.

◇ The Parliament can appoint an appropriate authority to carry out the purposes of the constitutional provisions relating to the interstate freedom of trade, commerce and intercourse. But, no such authority has been appointed so far.

#Centrestaterelations

Constitution have following provisions to secure cooperation and coordination between the Centre and the states:

◇ The Parliament can provide for the adjudication of any dispute or complaint with respect to the use, distribution and control of waters of any inter-state river and river valley.

◇ The President can establish (under Article 263) an Inter-State Council to investigate and discuss subject of common interest between the Centre and the states. Such a council was set up in 1990.

◇ Full faith and credit is to be given throughout the territory of India to public acts, records and judicial proceedings of the Centre and every state.

◇ The Parliament can appoint an appropriate authority to carry out the purposes of the constitutional provisions relating to the interstate freedom of trade, commerce and intercourse. But, no such authority has been appointed so far.
■ CENTRE'S DIRECTION TO STATE

#Centrestaterelations

The Centre is empowered to give directions to the states with regard to the exercise of their executive power in the following matters :

◇ the construction and maintenance of means of communication (declared to be of national or military importance) by the state;

◇ the measures to be taken for the protection of the railways within the state;

◇ the provision of adequate facilities for instruction in the mother tongue at the primary stage of education to children belonging to linguistic minority groups in the state; and

◇ the drawing up and execution of the specified schemes for the welfare of the Scheduled Tribes in the state.