Re: Subsidiarity

[Padmanabha Rao <kvprao@igidr.ac.in>]

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Please help make the Manifesto better, or accept it, and propagate it!
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On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, prakash  chandrashekar wrote:
 In line with the algorithm shown in 4.e, it could better be 'If the
 citizens cannot handle the problem better, and there is evidence of the
 government being able to handle it better, then let it be given to the
 immmediate local government. Only if the local governments are not able
 to handle it, shall the state government be called in and only if the
 state governments are unable to handle the problem, shall the centre be
 called in. this will truly lead to an ideal federal republic with power
 residing maximum in citizens and least in central governments.'

This is true. Agree. Perhaps you need to draft it properly. I think this
idea is mentioned generally elsewhere in the Constitution ?

Padmanabha Rao


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