Creation of smaller states and the consequent Administrative, Economic and developmental implications.

Creation of smaller States in India is the potential threat to the Integrity and unity of India. Creation of smaller states is not a new phenomenon only in post Independent India but also in pre-independent India we could see some instances of this like partition of Bengal in 1905.But after Indian independence bifurcation of smaller states take place on the linguistic basis, then in recent years the main reason of creation of new states is the underdevelopment of one section of any state inspite of having rich resources, Jharkhand and chhatisgarh are the examples of such creations.
Such creation of smaller states on the basis of language, caste creed, groups, cultural safeguard issue, might prove detrimental for indian union and indian democracy. It will impact on the Indian nationalism because people are more concern with their own local regions, not for whole country. Somewhere they are lacking nationalism,their demand for their own states sometimes seems that they express dissatisfaction with the indian union and want their own country as a separate state.
Virdarbha in Madhya Pradesh ,telangana in Andhra Pradesh, gorkhaland in best bengal ,bodoland in assam , harit Pradesh , purvanchal , bundelkhand in utter Pradesh ,all want their own state . at prima facie , it seems that their motives are benign and their demands are their entitlements , but this is not the real face of existing problems . political parties want to divide the indian union and their motive is “Divide and rule “ . In india even today most of the people in our society are ignorant and very far form the realities , and political parties easily provide them to do whatever they want . people for politicians act as a tinker box where politicians’ small incentive is needed to ablaze their sentiments to fight for their entitlements , and to pressurize the government to make separate state according to vote bank . They provide them to emotive issues of religion , caste or language to consolidate their own vote bank .
It is irony and also unfortunate that when india is getting globalize and disputed countries are extending olive branch with other disputed country , when india is mitigating their regional , economical , political and others barriers with rest of the world , when whole world is in the era of coming together to make unions like G-20 ,G-8 , G7, BRICS, at the same time india within itself is fragmenting in to smaller chunks . while , we do not heed the issues which are really fatal for the citizens like unemployment and livelihood . we face problems in transaction with people belonging to the other group , caste ,and sometimes religion as well , which makes us to keep ourselves at distant with other s and consequently we end up with a new state in indian union .
If we see the second part of this story , that is after creating of smaller states . we find that , the decision of dividing states on the basic of cultural, underdeveloped regions, language and on the basis of demographic lines are not in favor of indian union because since independence , india is facing problems in holding every states with their diverse demands in its union. This will leads to many implications, like political implications , have sever impact on developmental work of both new fragmented and parent state .
Some people support it by saying that administration of small states is easier and state can establish better control over the state than the government in a larger thereby ensuring more development of
the state. But de facto is that , practically it will make administration and policy implementation more clumsy and cumbersome . it is because , if there will be more smaller states in indian union then there will be more number of legislature in these smaller states and in parliament as well there will be plenty of complicated diverse issues which will create political instability and political chaos in the states and eventually through parliament , in the whole country of which bifurcation of Jharkhand with Bihar is live example. Political omnishambles is still a major issue in Jharkhand.
Due to creation of smaller states country ‘s different type of resources will be bound to particular states only . these will not be uniform distribution of resources within the country then there couild be economic implication and economic sluggish as well in the states . Water dispute of cuvery river has not been arise if tamilnadu and Karnataka have been a single state. Water is a natural resourse but partition among states could arise huge problems because one state might use its resousces more efficiently and can slow down the flow of the river by moving dams on it. it creats further implication in terms of central government ‘s interference and suprem court’s work . so, creation of small states will becomes impediment in developmental work of states as werll as country . more states , more number of shares of central fund , distribution of funds in large number but meager in quantity could not fix the problems of underdevelopment and augment misuse of funds

By:- Tanveer Ashraf