State Level Fiscal Reforms in the Indian Economy (2 Vols-Set)

Contents: Vol. I: Foreword. Preface. I. State Level Fiscal Reforms: Salient Issues: 1. Major issues in state level fiscal reforms/K.K. George. 2. Econometric evaluation of budgetary estimates: some evidence from Indian states/Narain Sinha and Lokendra Kumawat. 3. Why state level fiscal reforms are necessary?/P.K. Bhargava. 4. Social security for informal sector: a need for comprehensive reforms/Arun Prabha Chaudhary. 5. Fiscal reforms at state level: problems and prospects/Mohd. Azam Khan and Masood Hasan. 6. State level fiscal reforms programmes: an unfinished agenda/Mohan Prasad Shrivastava. 7. State level fiscal reforms in India: pointer to the future/Apurba Kumar Medhi. 8. Economic reforms and centre-state budgets, 2002-03/D. Rudrappan. 9. Non-tax revenue: an untapped source of Panchayat Finance/Dilip Ghosh and Santanu Ghosh. 10. Fiscal responsibility bill: an approach towards achieving fiscal balance/Shrawan Kumar Singh. 11. State finances in India: some proposals for reforms/Navjot Raikhy. 12. State of state finances in India: an analysis/Shrawan Kumar Singh. 13. Emerging trends in state finances in India: 1989-90 to 2000-01/Atvir Singh. 14. State level fiscal reforms/N. Gajalakshmi. 15. Panchayati Raj Institutions and economic reforms in Rajasthan/G.L. Malav. 16. Reliability of budget exercises in India/S. Indrakant and A.K. Vasudevachary. II. State Level Fiscal Reform and Human Development: 17. Financing human development during fiscal stringency: strategies and options for Indian states/K. Seeta Prabhu. 18. Social sector reforms and relative income deprivation in India: a note/D.P. Pal and Jayanta Sen. 19. Fiscal consolidation and human development-the Indian experience across states/K.C. Reddy, U.N. Moorty and M. Sarojini. 20. Social security through health care: approach towards gender equity/Sailabala Debi. 21. Role of social sector in economic development/R.S. Gadage. 22. Expenditure on education in Tamil Nadu/K. Govindarajalu. III. Fiscal Deficit and Debt: 23. Where do we stand in state-level fiscal reforms in India?: a trend analysis of deficits/Gautam Naresh. 24. Fiscal policy reform towards the behaviour of fiscal deficit of the states in India/Debesh Bhowmik and Sukumar Pramanik. 25. Burden of debt and its mitigation-a study of a backward state of India/S.N. Misra and Sriram Misra. 26. Fiscal deficit and selected rates of interest link in India: an analysis of period between 1970-71 and 1999-2000/Lekha S. Chakraborty. 27. An analysis of the trends and problems of state finances/V.S. Ganesa Murthy and V. Nachimuthu. 28. Sustaining the finances of state governments/Kasthuri Bai Dhanasekaran. 29. Government finance in Indian states: patterns, trends and socio-economic fall-out/P.K. Chatterjee, Suddhasil Siddhanta and Debasish Nandy. IV. Fiscal Federalism: 30. Tax effort: implications of federal transfers to Indian states/M. Sarojini. 31. Fiscal reforms in federalism: review and prospects/R. Swaminatharatnam.

Vol. II: Foreword. Preface. V. Fiscal Reforms in Specific States: 32. Fiscal deficit equilibrium in center-state dynamics: looking afresh/Pinaki Chakraborti and Anish Mukherjee. 33. State level fiscal crisis and reforms in India with special reference to Bihar/Biswa Nath Singh. 34. Non-tax revenue: principles and realities in Tamil Nadu/K.S.S. Uduman Mohideen. 35. State level fiscal reforms--a case study of Gujarat\'s budgets/Himanshu N. Desai. 36. Need to reform the state tax system of Bihar/Baij Nath Singh. 37. Government expenditure on education and health in Tamil Nadu: who benefits?/A. Sangamithra Naagarajan and R. Naagarajan. 38. State level fiscal reforms--a case study of Andhra Pradesh/K.V. Rao, B.S. Rao and C.S. Reddy. 39. Fiscal reforms in Gujarat/Ghanshyam Upadhyay. 40. State finances in India--a case study of Haryana state/Neena Malhotra and Pardeep Kumar. 41. State finances in India with reference to Andhra Pradesh/N. Sudhakara Rao. 42. Fiscal system in J&k State--need for attention towards its reforms/G.M. Bhat. 43. Growth of non-tax revenue and tax reforms in Karnataka/M. Ramanjaneyulu and K.K. Seethamma. 44. Revenues of state government: a case study of Goa/Seema P. Rath. 45. Revenues receipts of Andhra Pradesh state: a study on non-tax revenues (1985-2003)/K. Nageswara Rao. 46. Bumpy road for state-VAT in India: a case study of Uttar Pradesh/Naseem A. Zaidi. 47. A study on the revenue receipts of the government of Tamil Nadu from 1987-88 to 1997-98/S. Lakshmi. 48. Fiscal reforms in Uttar Pradesh/Mohd. Izhar Ahmad and Aftab Alam. 49. Social sector in the fiscal operations of Gujarat in the post reforms period/Bharati D. Dave. 50. Tax and non-tax revenues of Karnataka state/P.M. Honakeri. 51. Education and health as social sector development and government budgetary expenditure in Haryana/R.S. Nandal, K.S. Suhag and Arjun Singh. 52. State level fiscal reforms--a case study of Andhra Pradesh/M. Narasimhulu. 53. State level fiscal reforms and emergence of new classes in West Bengal/Kishore Kumar Roy Choudhury. 54. Taxation in Tamil Nadu: growth and structure during 1969-70 to 1997-98/N. Manonmoney. VI. Reforming States Enterprises: 55. Transport sector pricing: a model/Kanaga Sabesan Nagarajan. 56. The state enterprises of Andhra Pradesh--the status, maladies and strategy/J. Chandra Prasad and A.V. Naga Varma. 57. Towards the rationalisation of disinvestment process of public sector units: an assessment/S.A.R. Bilgrami. 58. Future of state public enterprises--state electricity boards/Shashi Jain. 59. Pricing of public utilities: a case of power sector in Punjab/M.S. Sidhu, P.S. Rangi and Jatinder Sachdeva. 60. State public sector enterprises: where will they go?/Ananth Bondhu Mukherjee. 61. Future of public enterprises/Irani Dutta Medhi. VII. Revenue and Expenditure Reforms: 62. State taxes in India: need for reforms/Achal Kumar Gaur. 63. Reforms of non-tax revenue at the state level/Probodh Kumar Jha. 64. Relative tax revenue performance of the states in India/Sarbeswar Bhujabala, Manish Kumar Srivastav and Alok Kumar Pandey. 65. Tax and non-tax revenue as sources of state finance/Banarsi Yadav. 66. Public expenditure on social sector and rural development at state level/Sharanjit S. Dhillon. Bibliography. Index.

"State level economic reforms constitute part and parcel of the new economic policy, i.e., liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation. The economic reforms were introduced in India since July 1991. In course of time, state governments have also initiated economic reforms. The important objectives of state level reforms comprise fiscal consolidation consistent with macro-economic stability, development with a human face, reduction of fiscal deficits, and disinvestment of loss-making public enterprises. To achieve these objectives implementation of fiscal reforms is a must. In the light of these objectives, many states have initiated fiscal reforms resulting in changes in the expenditure patterns, rationalisation of tax rates, and disposal of loss-making public enterprises. This book, which is being published in 2 volumes covers some of these issues, which will be useful to the scholars, policy makers, economists and the general public.

This book titled State Level Fiscal Reforms in the Indian Economy is the result of the selected papers presented and discussed by the scholars at the 85 Annual Conference of the Indian Economic Association held at Thiruvananthapuram in December 2002 under the auspices of the Kerala University. The Technical Session on State Level Fiscal Reforms was chaired by Dr. D.K. Srivastava of National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi and Prof. M. Narasimhulu of the Department of Economics, Osmania University, Hyderabad who acted as the co-chairman of the session." (jacket)