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Centre clarifies on spl category states status
Assam Tribune | Kalyan Barooah | New Delhi, May 23
Clearing the air on the fate of the Special Category States status enjoyed by the northeastern states, Union Finance and Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley today said it was not the Centre, but the 14th Finance Commission (FFC), which has discontinued the special status categorisation.
When asked about the resentment of the Chief Ministers of the Northeast, including Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi over the rollback of the Special Category status, Jaitley said, “We have done nothing of the kind. We have only implemented whatever the 14th Finance Commission has said.”
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