What is Wrong with Centre-Periphery Report?

The Sub-Committee’s proposal to repeal what they have called the rubric of ‘national policy on all subjects and functions’ from the Reserved List is also not acceptable.

by Laksiri Fernando-Dec 7, 2016

( December 7, 2016, Sydney, Sri Lanka Guardian) If I were to highlight a major defect of the Sub-Committee Report on Centre-Periphery Relations submitted recently to the Constitutional Assembly, and to the public, it is mainly the lack of an appropriate conceptual framework. It must be understood that the task of that Sub-Committee was the most difficult and controversial. The central theme that the Sub-Committee appeared to have pursued was: ‘what were the impediments for the effective functioning of the provincial councils?’ The following was their diagnosis.

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