New Delhi: Over a 100 retired bureaucrats have urged the 16th Finance Commission to establish a new mechanism that compensates Himachal Pradesh and other Himalayan states for their ecological contributions to the country at a time when disasters have devastated these regions.

As part of the ‘Constitutional Conduct Group’, retired bureaucrats on 3 November wrote a letter to the commission’s chairperson Arvind Panagariya, saying that the states’ natural resources were essential for India’s economy, and yet, they hadn’t been compensated.

“Himalayan states like Himachal, Uttarakhand, Kashmir and Sikkim are slowly going to pieces, literally, under the onslaught of cloudbursts, flash floods, land subsidence and collapsing infrastructure,” the letter read. Show Full Article

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