The Central government’s insistence on claiming credit for schemes implemented in the State is unfair, Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal has said.
Talking to reporters here, he said the Centre-State relationship did not exist on an ‘owner-slave’ plane, but on an equal footing. Mr. Balagopal cited instances of schemes where the State was spending the larger share, and insisting that they be branded in favour of the Central government was unfair, he said.
In the case of the LIFE Mission housing scheme, the State had spent ₹16,000 crore on around 4 lakh houses in the past five-six years. Only a small portion of this expenditure accounted for the Central share, he pointed out.
