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Laggards driving piggyback on the South
The previous debate on the North–South divide leapt again into life days earlier than the finance minister presents the Union price range and divulges the suggestions of the sixteenth finance fee. On 10 January, the Union authorities disbursed Rs 1.73 lakh crore to the state governments, a routine switch of taxes collected by the Centre….