My Columns: Without Fear and Favour

One year of Telangana government By  Deepak Parvatiyar June 4, 2015 5.00/5 (100.00%) 1 vote Although longstanding agitation paved the way for creation of new states and in the last fifteen years, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh and Telanagana were carved out of the respective bigger states –Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, the logic behind creation of these smaller states was that smaller states could be better managed and governed. (Of them, Telangana is the youngest and 29th state, which turned one on 2nd June this year, while the other three were created way back in 2000). Over the years, this logic has been defied as the governments of even these smaller states rather preferred to indulge into politicking than governance all these years. Consider that Jharkhand never even got a stable government that could last its term during the last fifteen years! (However, both Chhattisgarh and Uttarkhand did enjoy stable governments). On