A humble proposal to solve the telangana andhra situation

1. Solving Telangana/Samaikhya Andhra tangle By Shankar Narayan

3. How to break the knot

5. Where are we?

6. Unrest

7. Unrest

8. Impasse

9. UPA government is precarious

10. May splinter states unstably

11. What is needed in the solution?

12. They need to win

13. They need to win

14. UPA government needs to survive

15. Solution needs to apply to all

16. What is the solution?

18. Devolve power to districts

19. Take Nizamabad as an example

20. Convert municipal corporation to district Corporation.

21. Similar in government structure as a county in USA http://www.alamosacounty.org/depts/Commissioners/

22. Give them the power to impose sales/income tax

23. Follow Colorado County based Tax model

24. State is responsible for police, highways, rivers.

25. State needs to reduce its sales/income tax rate by half.

26. Districts impose sales/income tax as they need

27. Responsible for local Roads, traffic police, Lakes etc

28. District collectors report to the commissioner

29. District collectors are Hired and fired by the commissioner

30. State spends revenue using a formula.

31. State transfers %of state land to districts.

32. State need not be broken up.

33. They win because they are in greater control of their destiny

34. They win because state is Not broken up

35. And they are in greater control of their destiny

36. UPA government survives

37. Solution applies to all