Chennai, Sept. 12 -- Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker M Appavu today recalled the views of Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat and reieterated that the states should be given complete financial autonomy or the GST share to thestates should be enhanced to 75 percent so that the states will be able to implement more schemes that would ultimately benefit the people.
Speaking at the 11th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association India Region conferenceheld at Bengaluru in Karnataka, he pointed out that there are 16 states in Germany and the union Government ofGermany shares power equally with the state governments.
The welfare of people is decided by the respective state governments and not by theGerman union govern...