Asymmetric federalism Subject: Polity Section: Federalism Context: Recent SC judgement on Art 370 Constitutionally, India’s governance structure is quasi-federal. While in a unitary setup, the power to legislate is concentrated in the Centre, in a federal structure, the units that form the federation have varying degrees of autonomy and powers to conduct their […]

    Asymmetric Federalism Subject: Polity Context: Manipur special status The term asymmetrical federalism refers to “differences in the status of legislative or executive powers assigned by the constitution to different regional units”. It is a flexible type of union of states which allows the government to cut different deals with different states in special […]