Strengthening State Legislatures: Background Note for the Conference on Effective Legislatures

Prianka Rao ()

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Abstract: State legislatures are responsible for making laws on key subjects like land, police and health. They are also tasked with approving the expenditure of money for their respective states every year. This note examines certain aspects related to the functioning of state legislatures, and ways in which they can be strengthened. [PRS Discussion Paper].

Keywords: State Legislatures; Parliament; Rajasthan; labour laws; Constitution; budget; expenditure; states; roads and schools; public safety; and subsidies; Kerala; Haryana; Maharashtra; Financial Committees (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-11
Note: Institutional Papers
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