Analysis of Fiscal Health of Municipalities in West Bengal Post 2011 A Case Study of Jangipur Municipality
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The looming fact in the Indian municipal scenario is that the inter-governmental fiscal transfers have been the basic financial source of existence for most of the municipalities which pose an obstruction for India in the proper acceleration of sustainable development and municipalities throughout the country are having very low municipal revenue generation cum revenue mobilization as compared with the counterparts of other developed countries and the municipal financial scenario in West Bengal, the second most populated State in India, is no exception with very low revenue autonomy ratio as well as financial autonomy ratio. The main objective of this article is, therefore, to evaluate the financial health of a randomly selected municipality under West Bengal, at present time to check whether there has been any deviation in the accepted notion and thus to opine some effective measures thereon.Downloads
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