Key Highlights
- The chief minister told the finance minister that the discontinuation of RDG will have far-reaching adverse impact on the financial health of Himachal Pradesh and added that the hill state cannot be compared to other states whose RDG has been discontinued, according to a state government statement.
- Sukhu said that RDG contribution for the state was about 12.7 per cent which was second highest after Nagaland.
- He said that big states can withstand the discontinuation but the economy of Himachal Pradesh cannot.
- Assessing all states on a single yardstick was neither healthy nor transparent, he said.
- He termed the discontinuation as “undermining the spirit of cooperative federalism”.
