special status

Why Bihar, Andhra are unlikely to get special status, package instead

June 13, 2024 10:48 am

One of the biggest benefits for states classified as a special category earlier was that 90 per cent of funds under centrally sponsored schemes was contributed by the Centre, with only 10 per cent being the state contribution.

Special Category Status for Andhra Pradesh: Chandrababu Naidu's big demand and the BJP's compulsions

June 07, 2024 12:13 pm

Chandrababu Naidu's earlier push for SCS during 2014-18 had failed, and he had suffered a crushing defeat in the 2019 state election. This time is different — the BJP is short of numbers in Lok Sabha and dependent on him, and he has just won a landslide in the state.

May 22, 1983, Forty Years Ago: J&K’s special status

May 21, 2023 10:38 pm

PM Indira Gandhi said that the Centre never interfered or put pressure on anybody in Jammu and Kashmir but nobody should think he had a monopoly to rule over the state for ever.

J&K sees fall in militant attacks, but shift in recruitment strategy remains a worry

August 05, 2022 11:43 am

Since 2019, more than 690 militants have been killed in Jammu and Kashmir, 132 of them this year. In the same period, 527 individuals joined militant ranks.

Every aspect of democracy was desecrated that day: Chidambaram on J&K special status abrogation

August 06, 2021 10:40 am

On the second anniversary of the abrogation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram alleged that India's democratic credentials were diminished in the eyes of the world.

Andhra Pradesh special status: Five YCRP MPs say they will resign from Lok Sabha tomorrow

April 05, 2018 9:16 pm

YSRCP chief Jagan Mohan Reddy had announced in February that the party's five MPs would resign if its demand for Special Category Status to Andhra Pradesh was not fulfilled by the Centre.

Chandrababu Naidu: Special status Andhra’s right, will continue fight

February 23, 2018 3:58 am

Naidu said that in the last three-and-a-half years, Andhra Pradesh achieved a lot of growth, but it would have done much better had all the promises made in Parliament and assurances given in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, were fulfilled and implemented.

Maintain special status for J&K: CM Mufti

August 16, 2015 1:01 am

Mufti also said that the special status given to Kashmir under the Indian Constitution should not be changed.

Jnana Prabodhini seeks special status; stumped education dept wonders- What is ‘special’?

May 04, 2015 3:38 am

The MSCERT has written to all other SCERTs in the country asking them to give their definition of special schools.

Naveen wants special status, mineral royalty rate revised

June 03, 2014 2:06 am

Patnaik said his state is losing over Rs 5 crore everyday due to the non-revision of the royalty rate on minerals.

Arvind Kejriwal Slams Modi's Bihar Package, Bats For Nitish Kumar In Bihar Polls

August 20, 2015 8:08 pm