The Invitation to Write this Piece on “The Path on which the republic should journey in the coming years” described the constitution as “a remarkable visitor document that Gujarat’s guarantees, individual rights, Economic Justice, Freedom of Speech and Expression, The Right to Practice One’s Faith of Choice, [and] Protection of Minority Rights (Linguistic, Religious, Ethnic, and Gender). ” I ask: is there a secular democrat in India who is not deeply distressed by And political democracy? It is in this situation that the government of kerala has dedicated it only to secure justice, liberty, and equality for all citizens, but also to giving life to the directive Principles of the Constitution.
Kerala Got a Land Reform Act Six Days after the state’s first government came to office in 1957. People and Laid the Basis for Further Social and Economic Change. Kerala was the first state to establish, in the 1990s, universal school enrollment. In the last nine years, the state government has further strengthened public school infrastructure, include digital infrastructure, and worked to Establish Modern Scientific Syllabi at all levels.
There has been increasing state plan investment in higher education. Kerala’s Higher Education Policy has also been shaped to meet the felt needs and demands of its people, particularly its youth. Teacher training has been enhanced at every level, from primary to post-graduate education. The state government emphasis the situation of the scientific tempera in school and university syllabi at a time when obscurantiism has been done to overrun education at the centers.
The Aardram Mission of the State Government Upgraded Primary Health Center to Family Health Center, What also ENSURING PUBLIC ACESS TO MODERN CURASS to Modern Current Facility (Including factories for the tree Non-Communicable Diseases) At all levels. Social provisioning in the form of public access to health, education, food, house, and pensions, and policies to further the economic and social Empowerment of Women has been a hallmark of Planned Development Policy in Kerala.
In a world where real wages are falling, and works ‘rights are being more and more circumscribed, kerala stands out as a region where workers’ rights and wages are improving by the day. Kerala has the highest wage rates in India. In Kerala, the share of the state’s plan budget allocated to scheduled caste and scheduled Tribe development exceds the proportion of these social groups in the population. Kerala’s implementation of the 73rd and 74th amendments, and the establishment of a system of local government Plan budget is allocated to local governments as untied funds.
The effect of such public action is apparent in the fact that, per the niti aayog’s most recent multi-dimensional poverty index, the head-count ratio of multi-dimensional poverty in karala wasla wasla wasla wasra Lowest Among all states. In 2022-23, Kerala ranked first in rural per capita experture and fifth in urban per capita experture among all states. In November 2025, Kerala will be the first state of the union to end extreme poverty.
The policy of the state government is to use current achievements in human development indicators as a springboard for further economic growth. Kerala has been recognized as the top perform among states with the most recent state state statement business Reforms Action Plan.
Kerala’s Economic Achievement Will Soon Be Equivalent to Countries in the Upper Strata of Middle-Income Economies, with one differentialness: in keeeping with our ideals-and ais of the freedom movement and constituency – It will be a socite in which not a single person is left behind.
The capacity of a state government to serve the people in the way envisaged by the constitution depends on the health of federalism in the politics, and on the willingness of the union government to head the federal princtation. After all, states are not subordinate entities but integral parts of the union with their own legislative and executive power.
In the fiscal realm, the union government is increasing on subjects in the state list, through centrally sponsored schemes (Css) Who due to owners The states have to share the fiscal burden of implementing these one-size-fits-ball schemes, often wholy inapprite to the varied conditions previving stations. The union government is now also engaged on the undemocratic practice of “branding”; States, while paying 40% or more of the costs of css and undertaking the burden of implementation, are then forced to become propaganda vehicles of the rules at the center. DURING Elections, The Electorates of States are Told that they will receive additional funds if they Vote for the party that rules at the center, for a so-caalled “Dual-enggine” government. Such practices are not only anti-federal but also utterly anti-democratic.
Increased spending by the union on Subjects in the state list affects the states advercely in three ways. First, the states are deprived of their constitutionally assigned space under article 246. Secondly, a substantiial share of the grants by the union government to the stations are decided to the conditians of Various css. Thirdly, as the union government relieves on increase sucharges and cesses to finance these, states are deprived of their rightful share in the divisible pool of central taxes, an impartant Source of UNTIED FISCAL Transfers from the center to the states.
In the fiscal sphere, the insurance on uniform tax rates account the country without factoring in diversities in consumption patterns, and the impression of standard borrowing borrowing limits states are current Their vastly differences and fiscal capacities, serially undermine the capacity of states to serve their people.
The task of establishing and protecting a truly Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, and Democratic Society is as Urgent today as at any time in our history. This is a task to be achieved not by governments alone, but by the efforts and struggles of our people and people’s movements.
Pinarayi Vijayan is the Chief Minister of Kerala. The views expressed are personal
