‘Centre is not paying funds owed to States’
The Hindu
Govt. working to pay off T.N.’s debt: CM
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Sunday expressed hope that the State Government’s finances will become better soon while blaming the Union Government for not giving the State’s share of Goods and Services Tax or flood relief funds fully.
Speaking at the 14th State-level conference of the Tamil Nadu Government Employees’ Association, the Chief Minister said the State was in debt to the tune of ₹5 lakh crore. “The financial situation of the State needs to be fixed. In the last 10 years, a government functioned that destroyed and ransacked the finances of the State. We have started the process of reviving Tamil Nadu from the wrongs of the previous few years,” he said.
Mr. Stalin said without government employees there was no government. He further said he was making a change to the slogan ‘do or die’ to ‘do and die’, meaning he was working with a vision that he needed to complete his work fully and only then die.
The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.