📚 On Causality and Research Citations
• Firth and Liu acknowledge regional divergence but caution against blaming only FEP.
• Pranab Bardhan emphasises governance, not central policy, as the key factor.
• Srinivasa-Raghavan highlights post-1991 failures in the East, not just pre-1993 distortions.
Let’s be clear:
• Delhi didn’t block education in Bihar
• Delhi didn’t cause power theft in Ranchi
• Delhi didn’t elect criminals in Patna
Regional inequality is real. But the solution lies in reform, not resentment.
Blame won’t build the East. Leadership will.
“Blame Delhi” is not a development strategy.
The Freight Equalisation Policy (FEP) of 1952 is often blamed for East India’s industrial decline. But the story is more complex and more inconvenient.
FEP aimed to equalise access to industrial raw materials across states. It wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t sabotage. Eastern states still earned mineral royalties. The real failure lies in decades of local misgovernance.
Yes, industry moved to the South and West, but not because of FEP alone. Investors looked for:
• Law and order
• Reliable power
• Skilled labour
• Policy stability
Bihar and Jharkhand had minerals, but also violence, power cuts, and political chaos. Odisha had the same history but used reforms to attract industry. Jharkhand didn’t. Why?
Southern states weren’t favoured. In the 1950s, Tamil Nadu and Andhra were poor too. They invested in land reform, education, and public services. That’s why they rose.
Population growth in the East wasn’t caused by lost factories. It was driven by lack of female education and public health. These were state responsibilities that were neglected.
Even after FEP ended in 1993, eastern states underperformed. Jharkhand became a mineral-rich state in 2000 and still fell behind—not because of Delhi, but because of corruption and poor planning.
Fact: eastern states receive more per capita central funds than most. Finance Commissions account for backwardness. Southern states now argue they are subsidising inefficiency.
Private investors go where governance works. Tamil Nadu built auto hubs. Gujarat built SEZs. Karnataka built a tech ecosystem. These were earned, not gifted.
FEP may have distorted markets, but blaming a discontinued policy from 1952 for today’s failures is just bad politics.
Real growth requires reform, not resentment.
The East needs accountability, not a victim story.
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A topper who thinks every problem can be solved by studying harder is exactly why common sense isn’t part of the NEET syllabus.
The people protesting aren’t trying to improve their scores, they’re trying to improve the system that decides them. The irony is that the freedom to say, “Why Go To Protest When I Could Study,” exists only because people before you chose to protest instead of staying silent.
@iBhumihar_Girl@RahulGandhi Bache andolan karke kya ukad lenge
Bina opposition ki koi andolan safal nahi hoga sabhi student ko rahul gandhi ko support karna chahiye
Bansal. Wealthy family. But the ones who died hailed from poor families, and were pushed to the wall by the system from various fronts. The NEET paper leak became the straw that broke the camel’s back. Extremely easy for Adani owned NDTV King of Godi media to portray the protesters in poor light and mock the deaths of these students. But the protests have proved the nation has a conscience. So Godi media can keep trying to ridicule and write off these protests.
@amitkilhor You are doing Great work 👍👍.
These mfs have to hold on accountable what they are are doing with girls
is this person will do same thing with his daughter
When asked why Dipke was missing from the march, Ashutosh Ranka says - Do you guys want Dipke also to be beaten with a danda?
This is how shameless these thugs are. They have no courage to lead from the front.
The successful flight of Vikram-1, India’s first privately developed orbital rocket, is a tribute to years of patience, precision and quiet work by scientists, engineers and technicians.
My congratulations to the remarkable young team at Skyroot Aerospace, and to everyone at ISRO and IN-SPACe who supported this mission.
India is strongest when public institutions and private enterprise build upon each other’s capabilities in the service of science and society, and when our youth are given the opportunity and trust to turn ambitious ideas into reality.