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Since the Sarkaria Commission had delved into the matter of concerns nearly two decades ago, the Punchhi commission has been committed to solving the newly arisen matters. The report of the three-member commission has already been submitted in the year 2010, by the 28th chief justice of India Sri Madan Mohan Punchhi. According to this report, the main objective of this commission was to testify and review the Centre-State related issues, arrangements between the union territory and the states, communal-social-caste based conflicts and violence.
Polity
Communal Violence Bill
As per the Constitution of India, the Punchhi Commission has been appointed for the maintenance of healthy precedent measures to be followed in the Union-States matters. Those measures or the recommendations should be for the needed functionalities, power, responsibilities and legislative areas. The Punchhi commission recommended the Communal Violence Amendment Bill making the central forces allowed to be deployed in the states without even the state’s permission when any communal violence commences.
Article 355 and Article 356
The Punchhi commission suggested that Article 355 and Article 356 should be amended. This goes for the state’s favour as it stated to protect the state’s matters curbing the misuse of Central’s Powers.
Punchhi Commission
After the post-retirement of Sri M.M. Punchhi from the Chief Justice of India (CJI) office, in his post-retirement period, was appointed as the chairman of the Centre-State Relations Commission in 1998. This commission has been built mainly for examining differently pronounced legislatures from the courts and powers, liability and operations in all the areas of the administrative and legislative relations, governors’ roles and financial relations. It also takes care of the socio-economic strategies, emergency provisions, inter-state river water management and Panchayati Raj institutions.
For investigating the role, duties and the authorities of the centre during some natural disaster, outbreaks, epidemics, pandemics and various kinds of violence or social disputes; this commission has been well relied upon. Punchhi commission has also taken responsibility for testifying the taxes, river issues, river connections, crimes, the utility of specific taxes, budgeting and successful devolution of the power by autonomic Panchayati Raj. It also studied the feasibility of supporting legislation under article 355.
Punchhi Commission recommendation
Handling Financial sector
The recommendation for the Punchhi commission was that the considerations which are specified in terms of reference to the “Finance Commission”, must be handled between the states and centre. There must be an efficient manner for involving the States and centre has been finalised in terms of reference of the Finance Commission.
Revision of Tax Revenues
The commission can also be concerned about the proliferation of the tax revenues collected from the surcharges and the cesses. The Central Government should also review all the pre-existing surcharges and cesses for turning down their share in their gross revenue amount.
Looking after the Expenditure
As there is a fine line between planned and unplanned expenses, the expertise from the Punchhi commission comes in handy to look after this matter.
Synchronising the Plans
Thus the commission also is responsible to some extent for synchronising the Financial Commission and the Planning Commission. The synchronised time limit for the Financial Commission is currently five years. The Punchhi Commission recommended an improved plan for synchronisation taking some effective measures.
12th Financial Commission
As per the 12th Finance Commission that recommended for making the Financial Commission sector under the Ministry of Finance into a full-fledged working sector. The Punchhi Commission has promoted this idea and further endorsed this for better financial results.
Punchhi Committee
Punchhi Committee should be made after consultation with the honorary governor of India and the committee should be formed of the PM, Home Minister, the Lok Sabha Speaker and the Chief Minister of the corresponding state. Initially, the commission was formed by the following members in 2007.
Chairman- Shri Madan Mohan Punchhi (Retd.)- Former Chief Justice of India.
Member- Shri Dhirendra Singh, Former Secretary of Government of India.
Member- Shri Vinod Kumar Duggal, Former Secretary of Government of India.
Member- N.R. Madhava Menon, Former Director, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Govt. Of India.
Member- Amaresh Bagchi (4th July 2007 to 20th February 2008).
Conclusion
From the above discussion, it can be easily stated that the Punchhi Commission’s noble cause has been to make amends between the different government sectors and also make room for proposals and recommendations in future. Thus, the government can easily point out all the gaps regarding the laws, rules, bills and treaties as well. Thus the Punchhi commission can help the government to fill the gaps regarding communal concerns, legislatures and provide sustainable governance. The insightful report by Shri M.M. Punchhi with some outstanding proposals for nice coordination between states and unions has been effective to date. Thus, this commission has also helped some proposals come from outside the states to be granted by the government.
